Stories by Carlene Davis

The Jamaica Fire Brigade is short a commissioner, two deputy commissioners, with several other top positions also vacant.The Sunday Gleaner has confirmed that the fire brigade is also short of a director of the human resource department and a...

Nicolya Brown* was excited about her daughter being placed in the high school of her dreams after her strong performance in the Grade Six Achievement Test.But after just one week, Brown had to seek a transfer for the child to a school closer to home...

For more than 36 years the halls of The Gleaner were brightened by the willing smile and the upbeat personality of Reginald Campbell. But that came to an end last Saturday when the man most called 'Reggie' died suddenly.Last week, the grief hung...

The administrators have set the ambitious goal of making Tarrant High School one of the schools of choice in Jamaica, and already, when it comes to the science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) areas, it is making its mark.Tarrant is the...

Operator of A1 Training Institute, Julie Morris, is defending the integrity of the private entity, and charging that the critics are making mischief as it relates to her school.Responding to a recent publication in The Sunday Gleaner, Morris said...

For years, the east central St Andrew-based Tarrant High School had a reputation as one where students went to pass time, where violence was only one wrong word away, and where the police were always on call.In 2013, 240 students were placed at...

A recent study has underscored what many Jamaicans had already suspected, by painting your roof white you could be saving thousands of dollars in electricity cost.The study, done by lecturers from the Engineering Department at the University of...

Becoming a teenage mother was never in the plans for Sashell Hall, but today she is convinced that her now 10-year-old daughter put her on the path to achieve what she has so far achieved in life.When Sashell got pregnant at 15 years old, she was...

The year 2011 has been the worst one so far in Yasheka Brooks' life. It was the year the then 14-year-old became pregnant while attending high school."Due to peer pressure, I started dating my first boyfriend in grade eight. He was a very popular...

Faced with an average two per cent increase in the price of textbooks this year, several parents are urging schools to stop telling them to buy books which the teachers hardly use, if any at all.According to Sophia McKenzie, while most of the books...

Efforts by some American chicken producers to establish a stronghold in the local market is not going down well with several Jamaicans.Recent advertisements by the United States Poultry and Egg Export Council appealing to Jamaicans to trust America...