GROWING UP in one of the most volatile communities in western Jamaica, 13-year-old Aston Harris knows what it means to make every step a calculated one.A mathematics prodigy, calculating comes easy for the first-form...
SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine: THE ST Catherine Parish Council has taken the National Works Agency (NWA) to task for failing to undertake flood mitigation in the parish....
A LARGE number of Jamaicans believe that public officials who testified at the Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry lied under oath. Attorney General and Minister of Justice Dorothy Lightbourne has been viewed by 48 per cent of respondents as not a very...
Former Prime Minister Edward Seaga sees no problem with past West Indies and Jamaica cricketer, Lawrence Rowe, being honoured by the Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA).The players' pavilion at Sabina Park was on Monday named...
A week after the report on the Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry was tabled in Parliament, Opposition Senator A.J. Nicholson is calling for an immediate review of the Commissions of Enquiry Act...
MANDEVILLE, Manchester: THREE HUNDRED and twenty members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force and the Island Special Constabulary Force in Manchester, Clarendon and St Elizabeth recently received training in mediation...
The highly publicised and much-followed Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry has apparently impacted the way Jamaicans view the Government's handling of the extradition request for Christopher 'Dudus' Coke....
Dr Daniel Fider has been elected interim president of the Northern Caribbean University (NCU), replacing Dr Herbert Thompson, who retired suddenly from the post last week.Fider was vice-president for facilities, planning and information systems at NCU...
WESTERN BUREAU: ADRIENA CRIBB, the 2009 Spelling Bee Champion for St James, is again gunning for a place in the spotlight with an overall average of 97.8 in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) to be the top student...
A major private sector player has charged all stakeholders in the farming sector to use the 2011 Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show as a rallying point to undertake detailed study of Government's green paper...
LACOVIA, St Elizabeth: THE VERY anxious mother of four paced the staff room of the Lacovia Primary School an hour before the results arrived; the secretary answered every call with a sense of anticipation.Upstairs, the grade...
Telecommunications firm Digicel has vowed to bring a heightened sense of innovation and greater focus on environmental awareness to patrons attending the annual Denbigh Agricultural and Industrial Show. Digicel's Sponsorship Manager Tahnida Nunes ...
Yesterday's Withdrawal of the controversial censure motion against East Central St Andrew Member of Parliament, Dr Peter Phillips, by government backbencher Gregory Mair, fuelled a firestorm in Gordon House that was...
Campion College and St Jago High School were the top preferred schools for students who sat the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) this year, the education ministry has revealed.In making the announcement yesterday, Minister of Education Andrew Holness...
A CENSURE motion hanging over the head of senior opposition Member of Parliament, Dr Peter Phillips, is expected to be lifted today when members of the House of Representatives meet at Gordon House.A senior government source has informed The Gleaner...
The appeal of convicted hijacker Stephen Fray began yesterday with Queen's Counsel Jacqueline Samuels-Brown arguing that, based on the medical evidence, Fray should have been found guilty by reason of insanity....
Senior puisne judge Gloria Smith was hopping mad yesterday when the cases listed for trial in her court could not proceed for various reasons. Two of the cases have been before the Home Circuit Court since 2006."...
Western Bureau: When anxiety invaded their preparations for the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT), and when they wanted to unwind and destress, two top performers in St James turned to music. Twelve-year-old Dominique Ramsingh and Allison Davis...
AT LEAST three key negotiating groups in the public sector are yet to arrive at a final position on the Government's latest proposal to pay workers the seven per cent increase and outstanding retroactive sums due to them. In a joint statement yesterday...
After being plagued with bad grades, failures and disappointments during her grade six journey, Shannon Flemming of St George's Girls' Primary and Infant School cried tears of joy after hearing...
As tears of joy and disappointment flowed after yesterday's release of the 2011 Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) results, counsellors urged parents and children to remember that success or failure in life is not determined in a day....
The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) is offering a $200,000 reward for the return of cables stolen from its warehouse in Kingston last week.Thieves broke into the JPS warehouse ...
BANKER MINNA Israel has challenged the 2011 graduating class of the University College of the Caribbean (UCC) to use their education to effect positive changes in society....
After an emergency meeting on Saturday with delegates at Harman Barracks, on Barnett Street, Montego Bay, St James, the Special Constabulary Force Association (SCFA) expressed its acceptance of the Government's proposal...
The Court of Appeal will today begin hearing submissions in the application brought by Stephen Fray, the man convicted of attempting to hijack a Canada-bound aircraft in 2009. In October 2009, Fray was sentenced to a total of 83 years' imprisonment.
