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Dear Carla: I teach primary school aged children and while I don’t really need advice, I feel I needed to share the following so people can get an inside glimpse of some of the things I have to deal with in the classroom. The assignment one morning ...

Local performers will honour community activist Gina Spence as part of her 50th birthday celebrations. A concert has been planned for April 20, during which time the founder of Gina Spence Productions in Christ is expected to bask in the spotlight. T...

Dear Carla: I am in the middle of a bad situation. My husband has a 12-year old child from a previous relationship. Since the beginning of this year, we have been back and forth with the child’s mother’s lawyer. She wants $800 per month, not includin...

Dear readers, last week I received a question from a woman who was afraid to leave her child in her mother-in-law’s care because she’d wish her unborn grandchild dead. After reading the feedback, she asked me to post a final comment from her. Here it...

Dear Carla: My mother-in-law despises me, and even wished my child to die in my womb. However, my baby is healthy and beautiful. Now she is complaining to everyone that I won’t leave my child alone with her. I am deeply fearful she may harm my child....

Dear Carla, I just wanted to know after a couple has a child then break up years later and they each find other partners what are the boundaries…are they allowed to hit the child or discipline the child in anyway????? Boundaries Dear Boundaries, I t...

Dear Carla: No offence, but it would be nice to see more of a variety of questions and not just those that live up to so many negative stereotypes. Backontherock Dear Backontherock: Thanks for your feedback. However, I can only answer what I receive....

This is Part Two of what we termed in our column last week as the “Spill Over” from the unprecedented efforts of all local media, and their praiseworthy focus on Black History Month of February 2013 We promised that in Part Two to render a more in-d...

Hi Carla, I'm a 42-year-old male that has been out of a relationship for five years now. It's been great being single but it's also gets lonely. Since which I have had one relationship with this one girl which I thought if I gave my all heart and sou...

Carla Zuill Dear Carla: I am so frustrated and I’m hoping you can help me. My daughter’s father and I were together for five years and we broke up six months ago. I asked him, in order to avoid any drama, can we amicably enter the family court. He wa...

Author Rodney Smith Jr started out offering relationship tips to women as “just a hobby”. The response he got was strong enough that he decided to put his advice somewhere people could access it permanently. The result is ‘Words From a Gentleman: Fro...