CROSSING THE threshold from adolescence into adulthood is a giant step for teens. Running away from home, reasons a group of teenagers, is "an attempted escape from that period in your life". According to the teens, the need for greater

THERE IS an old Jamaican saying - 'when trouble tek yuh, pickney shut fit yuh'. It's a proverb, no doubt, born out of the need to act quickly and decisively in the darkest hours. Sadly though, it seems that the

HE GOVERNMENT is to pay $6 million with interest to a man who was freed by the Court of Appeal in 2003 after spending almost three years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Neville Williams, a 28-year-old,

Painkillers are the pill of choice for abusers of prescription drugs in Jamaica. The worrying statistic was revealed in a countrywide study conducted in 2001, which revealed that approximately 40 per cent of respondents admitted to misusing painkillers that required

ORMER NATIONAL security minister Dr Peter Phillips said that Jamaica had wasted some of its life as an independent nation and blamed successive governments since 1962 for not doing enough to advance the cause of Jamaicans.

MANY MEDICINE cabinets are morphing into private drug dens as an increasing number of Jamaicans are abusing prescription medications. Dr Ellen Campbell-Grizzle, director of information and research at the National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA), told The Sunday Gleaner that

You think they know, but they have no idea. Senior local health officials have admitted that prescription drug abuse is a growing problem in Jamaica, but they are clueless as to how huge the problem is.

Each year, hundreds of teenage girls go missing in Jamaica, but later return home. The figures dance around age 15. The Sunday Gleaner engaged two groups of teenagers between the ages of 14 and 16 in conversation, and both boys

ALL new peers should be appointed to the House of Lords for a fixed term of three parliaments - up to 15 years - as the next step towards a democratically elected second chamb

DAVID Cameron is calling for Scottish ministers to adopt Tory plans to end the misery of families of children with disabilities who face a bureaucratic wall when they try to f

HOME Secretary Alan Johnson has defended MI5 following the launch of a police investigation into allegations that some of its agents were complicit in torture.

THE cost of two rival exercises to sound opinion on how Scotland should be governed has now passed the £1 million mark, it emerged today.

THE disgraced banker Sir Fred Goodwin is to be entertained by the Prince of Wales at Clarence House this week, it emerged yesterday.

THE SNP government yesterday attempted to reassure the public that every effort would be made to safeguard food supplies after a report highlighted Scotland's dependence o

THE SNP's candidate for the forthcoming Glasgow North-East by-election has confirmed he is a member of the controversial Catholic organisation Opus Dei, but argued that hi

THE UK Government has rejected Scottish Government attempts to get its hands on a £150 million renewable energy fund, it emerged yesterday.

IT WAS the dinner party that nobody thought would ever happen, such is their political enmity - Gordon Brown and Alex Salmond sitting down to break bread, in the company of Sc

A FORMER Cabinet minister, whose resignation almost brought down the government, yesterday said he had lost faith in Gordon Brown and had been thinking about quitting for six

FIRST Minister Alex Salmond unveiled the new ambassadors of Business Club Scotland at the Homecoming Day at the Open Golf Championship at Turnberry.

SCOTLAND'S largest PR agency, The BIG Partnership, is toasting its success after securing a clutch of new accounts from some of the whisky industry's most respected br