Wendel Abel News Today

NON-PROFIT organisation Stand Up for Jamaica continues to question how mentally ill individuals can be placed behind bars. Pointing to the case of Noel Chambers, an 81-year-old man who died in th...

IT is almost unanimously accepted by United Nation's Children Fund (UNICEF) U-Reporters that more support should be provided to Jamaican children facing mental health challenges. The U-Reporters ...

A clarion call has come from the vast majority of respondents to a just-conducted U-Report — done by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) — for more support to be provided to Jamaican child...

THE increasing worry about mental and behavioural health issues has prompted health officials to lobby for the expansion of research to discover more ways to treat with the different challenges. ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James — The gruesome discovery of 53-year-old Michelle Gayle-Brown's headless body inside her home in Retirement, St James, has triggered a call for additional conversations to be ...

THE Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) will be staging a two-day Wellness Village at Harmony Beach Park in Montego Bay to raise awareness about mental illnesses and ways in which individuals...

A former Principal of Codrington College Canon Noel Titus was reported in Barbados Today as saying that Barbadians had a tendency to avoid the truth about the issues plaguing their society...

SINCE the start of the novel coronavirus p andemic, educators who have been going above and beyond to keep students afloat have been suffering from stress. Following the deaths of nine teache...

Some Jamaicans have over the years, opted to consult with their so-called 'obeah men' in search of guidance and treatment for a variety of issues, including medical illnesses, instead of visiting medical practitioners. The issue returned to the p

This week’s featured development as Newsmaker of the Week just ended is the shocking news of the death of four-year-old Jordaine Clarke, who was reportedly left by his teacher in her car for hours on Thursday. But family members are questioning