(Jamaica Observer) In 2007, two years after its creation, Caribbean Genetics (CARIGEN) burst into the public spotlight with research suggesting that more than 30 per cent of Jamaican men were not the biological fathers of their children.
The revelation of this “jacket” phenomenon not only caused many less than honest mothers to cringe, but pushed many suspicious cuckold fathers to discreetly seek out the DNA-testing services.
A few years later, the University of the West Indies-run research company used Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) evidence to identify the remains of 11-year-old Ananda Dean, the victim of one of the most horrific child murders