Published:Wednesday | December 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Almost 5,000 Jamaica public secondary-school students who sat the 2010 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations ended up without a single pass. However, this represents a continuing reduction in the number of students failing to pass even one subject...
Published:Wednesday | December 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
WESTERN BUREAU: PRIDE OF Trelawny president, Barrington Ferguson, whose group is focused on increasing environmental awareness, said Trelawny needs to be cleaned up to facilitate the large numbers of visitors...
Published:Wednesday | December 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 13:32 …SUBJECT: GOVERNMENT OF CUBA FRUSTRATION INCREASES OVER LACKOF JAMAICAN COUNTERNARCOTICS COOPERATIONClassified By: COM JONATHAN FARRAR FOR REASONS 1.4 (B) & (D)1 (C) Summary: The U.S...
Published:Wednesday | December 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
The ailing coffee industry has been given a lifeline with a J$310.5-million injection through a Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries initiative.The ministry was also at the receiving end yesterday, when the European...
Published:Wednesday | December 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
MAY PEN, Clarendon: VENDORS IN May Pen will ply their wares in an improved market for the Christmas holidays, as work is currently being done on the facility.Rowan Jarrett, project manager at the Clarendon Parish Council...
Published:Wednesday | December 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Minister of National Security, Senator Dwight Nelson, has come out in sharp defence of Jamaica's reputation after a leaked United States Embassy cable painted the Government as enablers of drug traffickers....
Published:Wednesday | December 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
A collaborative Rotary Club effort brought much-needed Christmas cheer to the Accident and Emergency Unit of the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) in Mona, St Andrew, last Friday, with the donation of six gurneys (stretchers)....
WESTERN BUREAU: THEIR SILENCE speaks through the lens of a camera, their pain is cushioned in the hearts of many and their resilience is tested by uncertainty and yet, the Voices From Haiti Vault book captures Haiti's...
The Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) is planning to thoroughly examine the criteria used to evaluate teachers under a pilot assessment that has determined that their ability to manipulate subjects taught in primary schools remains weak....
THE GOVERNMENT is expecting to pull in millions of dollars in additional revenue from a new deal that will target advertisers for the almost three-year-old Half-Way Tree Transport Centre. With thousands of commuters using the facility each day...
WESTERN BUREAU: SuperClubs chairman John Issa is estimating that the cruise ship industry owes the country more than US$12 million in head tax, while land-based tourists are being burdened with fees tacked on to their airline tickets....
The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has furnished proof that Shahine Robinson has relinquished her United States citizenship, which she acquired while being a member of Jamaica's Parliament.A Certificate of Loss of Nationality of the United States was...
The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is denying liability in the claim filed by one of the more than 40 passengers who got injured in an accident while they were on a church trip on October 15. A schoolgirl, Jodian Henry...
Tick, tick, tick...the clock is counting down! There's just a day to go for the greatest shopping fiesta of the year. Christmas in the City is all geared up to explode in downtown Kingston. In fact, this year is expected to be so big it has been split into two days.
PRINCIPALS OF primary schools have blamed all stakeholders in the education system for the decline in the number of students achieving mastery in this year's Grade Four Literacy Test.
Figures from the Ministry of Education revealed that 67 per cent of students...
AFTER 49 years, St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) has done enough to be considered one of the top educational institutions in the island. With a list of graduates that reads like a who's who of Jamaica, STETHS...
Another cellular tower construction by telecommunications provider Claro has been shut down by a local government body because the project did not get the necessary approval. This time, it is the Kingston and St Andrew...
WESTERN BUREAU: For years, there has been a common belief among Jamaicans that Jamaica's emergency services are staggeringly ill-equipped to handle situations in the event a major disaster should hit the island. At a Gleaner Editors' Forum held at the Rose Hall Resort...
Northern Caribbean University (NCU), the Seventh-day Adventist Church-owned and operated institution of higher learning in Jamaica, has a new chairman. He is Pastor Everett Brown, who was appointed to the position on November 30 during the 14th session of the West Indies Union...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE HOTEL industry will have to fork out an extra US$20 million (J$1.8 billion) annually to purchase spirits and keg beers to service their guests as a result of the restructuring of the alcohol tax regime, says the sector's largest supplier...
Solar panels used for electricity generation in tropical regions like the Caribbean could be losing as much as 40 per cent of energy daily because of atmospheric pollution. According to Dr Paul Ruscher, associate professor...
Walking into the Ocho Rios Craft Market in St Ann is like stepping back in time. A fridge stands filled with 2007 Cricket World Cup novelty beer bottles, quite unlike the typical Red Stripe stubbies, and vendors lament...
Few persons in the history of modern Jamaica are as controversial as John Maxwell, the fiery, bushy-haired journalist and environmentalist who died last Friday at age 76. A hero to the generation of journalists who emerged...
FOR YEARS, the old train station in Balaclava, St Elizabeth, remained idle as the local rail service was suspended. But for the past 18 years, the facility has been put to productive use, and it is not that the trains have started rolling again....
THE MERE mention of agriculture conjures, for many, images of a hardened, wrinkled farmer with a feeble donkey and old, muddy boots. However, Tyrone Hall, a 23-year-old Jamaican graduate student at Clark University...
