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With the recent resurgence of concern in Jamaica regarding the prevalence of sexual violence, officials have attempted to address the warranted concerns of the public

As I read the article titled 'Another side to schoolboy recruiting' by Peter Brooks of St George's College (StGC) (Sunday Gleaner, December 2, 2012) supporting, generally, the business of student athlete recruiting (buying, in Jamaican parlance),

The following is a submission by the Jamaica Civil Society Coalition (JCSC).

IF THE University of Technology (UTech) students were privy to a Health and Family Life Education (HFLE) class while in high school, they, perhaps, would not have been involved in inciting violence against a colleague allegedly caught in a homosexual liaison on campus.

In reading Lord Justice Leveson's 45-page summary of his 2,000-page report on the phone-hacking scandal and other misdeeds of the British press, published last week, as well as reflecting on the American media's coverage of the recent Road to the White...

Finally, I understand what former Republican representative from Missouri, Todd Akin, must have meant by "legitimate rape".

Swirling dust from ministerial SUVs roaring across this potholed country may have obscured an important job-vacancy advertisement appearing in the papers last Sunday.

Below is a lightly edited excerpt from a contribution by North West Manchester Member of Parliament Mikael Phillips to the parliamentary pension reform debate in November.

Last year, then Minister of Finance Audley Shaw came under intense pressure from the People's National Party (PNP) and its supporters to conclude arrangements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Last Friday, more than 1,500 cities around the world illuminated symbolic public buildings in commemoration of the first abolition of the death penalty, which took place in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, in contemporary Italy, on November 30, 1786.

A new policy paper issued by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last Wednesday has highlighted public-sector wage growth and high public-sector employment as major contributing factors to the Caribbean's debt crisis.

Lance Armstrong won seven consecutive Tour de France cycling titles - a most remarkable feat for which he was lauded and compensated. However, recently he was stripped of all his titles for taking performance-enhancing drugs.