Mental Health Awareness Needed
The need to support young people’s mental health was the focus of a webinar recently hosted by the Faculty of Education and...
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Children Suffering during the Pandemic and the Mental Health Epidemic
By Nakaylia Morant Mental Health Awareness month and National Child month are both celebrated in the month of May. During the current...
Navigating Life with Autistic Children
“Focus on the positive…Ignore the stigma”. This message encapsulated the virtual Autism Awareness Seminar hosted by the Cynthia Shako Education and Daycare...
University Students face Mental Health Epidemic
By Chrisancia Robinson A mental health crisis is affecting university students in Jamaica due to the restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic....
Breaking Ganja’s Glass Ceiling
The contribution of women to Jamaica’s cannabis industry was the focus of the most recent forum organised by the National Council on...
Demystifying COVID-19 Vaccine Myths
Dr. Adella Campbell, Head of the Caribbean School of Nursing at the University of Technology, Jamaica took time to refute the myths...
Ganja “Full a Uses”
A virtual national ganja literacy forum entitled ‘Good Ganja Sense’ was hosted by the University of Technology Jamaica on Tuesday, March 9th...
Women’s Health Issues Woefully Neglected
Demetrious A. Robe International Women’s Day will be marked this year on March 8. Every year on this day women’s advocates and...
My Uterus, My Choice
Dannielle Mullings The great abortion debate is swirling around the Jamaican media-scape and for every person like politician Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn who is fighting...
Jamaicans Diagnosed with Breast Cancer Younger than the Global Average
As Jamaica enters Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, the former Executive Director of the Jamaica Cancer Society, Yulit Gordon urged Jamaicans...
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