Mark Jackson believes that a principal should possess genuine passion and commitment to serve the children, with the vision of seeing them excel in all aspects of life and not solely in academics. Jackson, the headmaster at Ascot Primary School in...
An attorney, who handles contentious landlord-tenant cases, says there is a noticeable increase in the number of local property owners deciding to list their properties for vacation rentals as opposed to long-term options as a result of harrowing...
Rojanie Bedasee is resolute in his goal of making a positive impact on the youths of Jamaica one step at a time. The 20-year-old who is heavily involved in community outreach spends his spare time at the Jones Town Baptist Church, where he is a...
Members of the Joint Select Committee of Parliament reviewing the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) Act, 2023 on Wednesday found it difficult to come to a consensus regarding whether the findings of a disciplinary hearings against educators should be...
Local coffee farmers have voiced concern that come harvest season during the months of August to December, a lower crop yield may materialise, resulting in a dent in their earnings. Speaking with The Gleaner at the Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee...
While expressing high hopes for the local coffee industry, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Pearnel Charles Jr has said that if adequate research is not conducted and investment increased to improve and protect the sector, international markets...
Dr Dave Gosse, head of the Institute of Caribbean Studies (ICS) at The University of the West Indies, Mona, is expressing concern that a trend of pranksters faking robberies could be used to mask criminal behaviour. In recent days, footage have...
The Boys’ Town sports field in Trench Town will no longer be solely dependent on a downpour of rain to remain in a lush state suitable for use by football and cricket clubs. This as the first stage of a three-part, multimillion-dollar, solar-...
More Jamaicans who are eligible to vote have signalled that they would go to the polls if national elections are held shortly when compared with the total number of registered electors who cast their ballots in the September 3, 2020, general...
In an effort to prolong the life of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company’s (JUTC) ageing fleet of buses, Industrial Fire and Rescue Equipment SA conducted a cooling-down exercise on Monday to demonstrate how a fire suppressant system supplied by them...
Opposition Spokesman on Education and Training Senator Damion Crawford is maintaining that the Government’s latest wage offer to the teachers under a restructuring exercise is unreasonable. The teachers voted 346-227 to reject the offer during a...
The search for rental of residential property has become increasing difficult for more Jamaicans, who believe that the requirements set by some landlords, such as requests for bank statements and relationship or religious conditions, are too...
More than 50 per cent of the professors appointed at The University of the West Indies (UWI) over the five-year period 2018 to 2023 are women. Professor Dale Webber, pro-vice-chancellor and principal of The UWI, Mona campus, said that of the 27...
Sir Hilary Beckles, vice-chancellor of The University of the West Indies (UWI), is seeking the assistance of the Government and private sector players in redeveloping the 75-year old Mona campus. He was addressing the Annual Campus Council Meeting...
Organisations registered under the Companies Act have been instructed to begin preparations to ensure compliance in anticipation of the Data Protection Act (DPA) taking effect on December 1, 2023. The Government is fine-tuning regulations to bring...
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) correspondent Laura Trevelyan, whose ancestors engaged in chattel slavery, owning over 1,000 slaves in the 19th century, on Monday issued a public apology to the Grenadian people on behalf of her family. She...
The ‘Blue Bots’ robotics team from Jamaica College (JC) has been crowned the 2023 champions of the annual NCB Foundation FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Jamaica National Robotics Championship. The students from the St Andrew-based school topped the two-...
In its second staging, the Harrison College – Campion College student exchange programme has been successful in fostering regional integration, improving student achievement levels, and the exchange of different teaching methodologies that allows...
More local and regional agricultural professionals have received training and certification in artificial insemination (AI) as a result of a collaboration between Nutramix and Select Sires Incorporation, helping to transform the cattle industry in...
It appeared to have been love at first grasp. At least that is 95-year-old Lloyd Bryan’s recollection of the spark that set off a burning affection for his valentine, Pauline. And with the now-85-year-old yielding to Lloyd’s offer to hold her hand...
Vice chancellor of The University of the West Indies, Sir Hilary Beckles, declared on Tuesday that “the time is now” for a revolution of the educational system in Jamaica. He was speaking at the Terra Nova All Suite hotel in St Andrew, where the...
Media practitioners have been challenged by a state broadcasting chief to “go back to the basics” in ensuring that quality and accuracy are not sacrificed. “The practitioners of today, including those who are the gatekeepers, editors, we don’t pay...
Residents of Spring Village in Old Harbour, St Catherine, have expressed dissatisfaction with the limited to no information from the offices of the National Works Agency (NWA) regarding the status of the community bridge which was closed to...
The procurement of 600 body cameras over the next two months is expected to bolster the police force’s evidence-gathering capacity and help challenge dubious claims of innocence from motorists ticketed for traffic violations. That declaration...
