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Wretched in this alone,That thou mayst take all this away, And me most wretched take.The only thing that makes me miserable Is the thought that you might one day reject me….

Years of cult shame 11:10 pm
MONTEGO BAY, St James — It was seven long years of hell for a man who was shot and stabbed during last Sunday's human sacrifice rituals at Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries here.

COVID-19 cases rise in St Catherine prison 10:20 pm
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has confirmed an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases among the inmate population at the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre in recent weeks.

Daughters not out for blood

Declaring, “We are not out for blood,” two daughters of the elderly Jamaican-Canadian couple murdered in 2018 have expressed satisfaction with the sentence handed down on Thursday by Supreme Court judge Justice Lorna Shelly Williams to St Thomas native Fabian...

Reneto Adams: MoBay cult behaviour not surprising

Retired Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams says the 'cut-throat' religion practised at the Montego Bay-based Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries should not come as a surprise.

Years of cult shame

MONTEGO BAY, St James — It was seven long years of hell for a man who was shot and stabbed during last Sunday's human sacrifice rituals at Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries here.

Shot, stabbed but strong

A member of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries has shared a graphic and chilling account of last Sunday night's events at the church that spiralled into the killing of two congregants in what has been described as a human sacrifice ritual.

St Thomas minor finds it hard to stay at home alone

THE recent abductions of nine-year-old Phylisa Prussia and 13-year-old Winshae Barrett are affecting another St Thomas minor, who finds it hard to stay at home alone.Sidia Crockshank, 13, is the one facing that challenge.

COVID-19 cases rise in St Catherine prison

The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has confirmed an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases among the inmate population at the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre in recent weeks.

Don't delay seeking medical advice, says breast cancer survivor

When Tara Playfair-Scott discovered a lump in her breast in 2016, the first thing she did was take to Google to research and self-diagnose.

Bitter pill to swallow

Melbourne Flake, the 81-year-old Jamaican-Canadian who was murdered with his wife Etta in 2018, loved Jamaica and defended it every chance he got, rejecting any notion of it being “the murder capital” of the world.

Health care cost and patient outcomes

THIS week's column will address several critical and intersecting health-care indices that closely correlate with patient outcomes but are poorly understood by the public. Efficient and high-quality health-care delivery requires a robust and resilient infrastructure that is expensive to...