In a renewed debate for recognition to be given to Jamaican Creole, Professor Hubert Devonish of the Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of the West Indies has proposed that "language rights"...
"It is sinful! Absolutely sinful!" declared Edward Seaga, chancellor of the University of Technology. Speaking about the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT), the former Jamaican prime minister said the curriculum was overloaded with unnecessary information students...
Ryan McLeary describes the numerous fights he has been in as war. And a teacher interjects that at one point in his three years at the YMCA, McLeary would throw chairs and just about anything at hand at students who offended him.
Akiode Sinclair went to this year's 'Champs', sat with the dark blue-clad throng at the National Stadium and thoroughly enjoyed Jamaica College's (JC) march to victory.
Diane Taylor and Naomi Gayle have extensive experience and hands-on involvement with the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) Youth Development Programme.
EDUCATORS believe there needs to be a total revision of the school curriculum, from early-childhood through to the secondary level in order for Jamaica to...
Rolling out the red carpet, Sandals and Beaches Resorts in the Ocho Rios area honoured outstanding team members for the year 2010 at their annual Prestige Awards last week.Team members attending glittering ceremonies cheered on their colleagues as the...
After investigating reports of abuse and neglect at the Golden Age Home, the institution's board has announced that it has made several recommendations to improve the institution's operations.
Corporal Wayne Llewellyn was always punctual, respectful and reassuring to his colleagues in Area Three of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) whom he told all was well, just hours before his...
Fearing that his younger brother's murderous rampage in the quiet community of Three Hills, St Mary, last Thursday has driven a wedge between two closely knit families, Simeon Llewellyn reached out to his in-laws...
WESTERN BUREAU:Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) plans to make major cuts in the number of former Air Jamaica workers who now service operations in Jamaica.
ONE Senator has invited his colleagues and the country, by extension, to engage in a national debate on the absolute privilege enjoyed by parliamentarians while participating in debates in the bi-cameral...
IRISH TOWN, St Andrew: ACTIVITIES AT the MRI Learning Centre in Irish Town, rural St Andrew, have nothing to do with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), that high-tech diagnostic medical imaging technique used in radiology
MOCHO, Clarendon:IN THE nine years she has been a member of the Mocho Community Development Association (MCDA), Odette Eccles has moved from being a painfully shy individual to a confident, vibrant businesswoman.
Marcia Garrell sat in her room in Atlanta, USA, Thursday morning too stunned to move as news came from Jamaica that her mother, father, brother, and niece had been fatally shot, and her sister was battling for her life in...
Principal of Holmwood Technical High School, Paul Bailey, said he has had to put personal security measures in place as a result of death threats reportedly made against him.
ALBERT, TOWN, Trelawny:AFTER A sojourn to the north of the parish and a hiatus of a year, the Trelawny Yam Festival is to return with a bang on Easter Monday - April 25 - back in Albert Town where it all started 14 years ago.
The revolutionary approach Singapore has taken to teaching math will be a good model to adopt in Jamaica, according to Nadine Molloy-Young, president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA).
LEADER OF Government Business in the Senate, Dorothy Lightbourne yesterday accused one of her colleagues of using the Senate to further a political agenda.
