427 Former Patients Living at Bellevue

427 Former Patients Living at Bellevue

The incessant stigma around mental illness in Jamaica has resulted in hundreds of discharged patients living at the Bellevue Hospital in Kingston for decades.  This is a result of being abandoned by their relatives and cast aside by their...
Mayne: Zero Tolerance for Contraband In Cells 

Mayne: Zero Tolerance for Contraband In Cells 

‘Sly efforts to provide inmates with prohibited articles at correctional facilities, will be detected and punished,’ said the Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security Zayvia Mayne. He says trafficking of contraband is now subject to more...