Accra Daily Mail, 26/10/07
Mr Kwamena Bartels, Minister of  Interior on Wednesday bemoaned the rate at which massive quantities of drugs, were being shipped into the country and said government would make the necessary amendments to. PNDCL 236 to deal with the current trends.
He said the situation was as a result of the increased efforts of [...]

by Olga Heaven, The Weekly Gleaner (UK ), 18/04/01
At the moment there are over 350 Jamaican women in UK prisons, 60 per cent of the foreign national women currently held here, mostly for smuggling drugs into the country. Despite harsh sentences of up to 15 years the women keep coming in ever-greater numbers.
Most of these [...]

by Olga Heaven 25/09/02  The Weekly Gleaner ( U.K. )
The media in Europe and America have the habit of making their citizens think that Jamaica is a war zone which is a grave danger. The ‘documentary’ featuring Kingston Public Hospital   shown   here   on prime time, for example, was like the American sitcom Mash without [...]

IT’s not an everyday occurrence to sit with someone whose work involves strengthening the minds and bodies of Jamaican women at a time when they need it the most. Olga Heaven, director and founding member of the Hibiscus Foundation, has reached out to Jamaican women serving time in prisons in the United Kingdom and has [...]

By Micheal Oban
THE recently held drug smuggling conference in Kingston, Jamaica has been welcomed by all parties concerned and is being seen as a positive first step in tackling the dramatic upsurge in Jamaicans, particularly women, who are being caught and sentenced for drug smug­gling into the UK.
The conference, held at the Hilton Hotel in [...]