The Church, which for many years was the foundation of education in Jamaica, is looking to get back into the building of schools, this time in partnership with the Government.This is in keeping with the mandate...
Chronic academic and administrative failure has jolted Jamaica's education ministry into tethering some principals to a three-year performance target in a bid for them to improve school standards or risk being flushed from the system....
As hundreds of schools across Jamaica open their doors to welcome the beginning of another school year today, Children's Advocate Mary Clarke has called for parents to take every precaution...
THE BOSS of the Juici Patties fast-food outlet that was at the centre of Saturday night's high drama in downtown Kingston has denied there was any hostage crisis, and suggested...
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) says it will be keeping a close watch on what it described as the lack of accountability regarding the use of firearms issued to members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF).According to INDECOM...
Sharmalee Cardoza doesn't like the term 'disabled'. She says the word connotes a lack of worth. However, many of Jamaica's leaders who speak to equal rights refer to persons living with disabilities as 'disabled'....
Police Commissioner Owen Ellington has ordered a strategic intelligence assessment to determine the extent to which the toppling of the Tivoli Gardens criminal gang and the subsequent ousting of its reputed leader, Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, has had an impact on the recent reduction in major crimes.
Seventeen-year-old Victoria Marley, an accomplished golfer, ironically, fell to her death from a golf cart last Friday at the world-famous Cinnamon Hill Golf Course in Montego Bay, St James.
The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) and the Marine Police are now trying to determine the cause of a fish kill in the Kingston Harbour.
With normality restored to the health sector, Cabinet is slated to discuss a new payment plan for nurses when it meets tomorrow.Members of the Nurses' Association of Jamaica (NAJ) yesterday ended a two-day protest action after a meeting on Friday with...
Last Sunday, Prime Minister Bruce Golding raised questions about the accuracy of The Gleaner's editorial and pointed to the official record of Parliament, Hansard.Today, we present the March 16 exchange in Parliament...
Long before May 24, the public was accustomed to announcements that the police believe a certain person or persons could assist in their investigations into a particular matter.
In today's article 'Winning back the trust', Trevor Munroe was identified as director of the National Integrity Action Forum. Munroe was, however, speaking in his personal capacity and not on behalf of the forum.
The death of alleged gangster Cedric 'Doggie' Murray, who was killed in a reported gunfight with the police on August 12, may have signalled the last hurrah of the notorious Stone Crusher gang, which is based in Montego Bay, St James.
Hard work by police detectives on Friday resulted in the rescue of a kidnapped man and the arrest of two suspected kidnappers.Police personnel from the Organised Crime Investigation Division (OCID)...
GUNMEN LAST night stormed a food establishment in downtown Kingston, holding an undetermined number of persons hostage.At press time last night, a number of Jamaica Defence Force personnel and police officers were on the scene at the Juici Patties...
Assistant Commissioner of Police Les Green, who heads the Major Investigation Task Force (MIT), has no doubt that the May 24 incursion into Tivoli Gardens has had an impact on the level of compliance by people who have been named 'persons of interest' by the police.
Ambassador Marco Mazzocchi-Alemanni, (right) head of the European Union Delegation in Jamaica, and Anthony Hylton (left), member of parliament for Western St Andrew, break ground for the construction of End Time Basic School at Penwood Place...
HEAD OF the National Education Trust (NET), Paul Matalon, says there have been several expressions of interest from the private sector to partner with Government to build schools.
Parents warnedWith the start of the new school year two days away, the Office of the Children's Registry (OCR) is warning parents and guardians that failure to enrol their children in school and ensure that they attend could land them in trouble.
DESPITE indicating they are willing to testify against a police sergeant deemed to be the mastermind in a major gun robbery at the police armoury, two of the three civilians who pleaded guilty to illegal possession of firearms and ammunition have each been sentenced to 138 years in prison.
Jennifer Bolt, mother of World and Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt, has been chosen as the first recipient of the International Mothers of Distinction (IMOD) award.
TWO DAYS after head of the Police Federation peppered the Bruce Golding-led administration at its annual conference, General Secretary of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Karl Samuda yesterday hit back with a scathing broadside against Sergeant Raymond Wilson.
WESTERN BUREAU: The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) is rebuffing suggestions that it has run out of money to furnish its new offices in Falmouth, the country's next cruise-shipping destination. The Gleaner has...
