The number of children without critical social protection is increasing globally in staggering numbers, almost doubling in four years, a joint United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and International Labour Organization (ILO) report has found....
As the buzz about ChatGPT intensifies, the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has added its voice to the conversation, underscoring that “any form of cheating is a big concern” for the regional exam body. The artificial intelligence chatbot,...
Concerns are being raised about the insufficient number of building officers locally and the structural integrity of some buildings as Turkish officials issue arrest warrants for more than 100 contractors allegedly involved in illegal and shoddy...
At least 252 Jamaicans tested positive for mycoplasma genitalium (MG) in 2022, nearly eight years after the sexually transmitted infection (STI), which can cause adverse pregnancy outcomes and reproductive problems, was first detected in the island...
Just over two months since the launch of the new artificial intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT, Jamaican educators are grappling with the question of ensuring academic integrity even as some point to the merits of the chatbot. ChatGPT, which was...
Although it is not recommended that parents shadow their own special needs children, a near-tragic experience led Shauna Johnson* to take on the responsibility in September 2022. Her seven-year-old son, a student at Hope Valley Experimental School...
Roxanna Bogle’s 12-year-old autistic son missed a week of school in January because his shadow resigned a day before the start of the new academic term. Shadows provide one-on-one support in classrooms to hundreds of special needs students across...
Monique Estrene has been consumed by one question since July 15, 2021, the day her late 10-year-old son Jahiem Bogle was shot in the head: Why? The former Iris Gelly Primary School student was riding his bicycle along Curry Pathway near Collie...
Returning home to Jamaica after 18 months of buckling under the pressure on the COVID-19 frontline was an answered prayer for nurse, Dr Sandra Lindsay. She prayed daily that her life would not be snatched by the virus before she got the chance to...
Approximately six and a half hours after midnight on New Year’s Day, 20-year-old Dana Thomas welcomed her son into the world. Thomas was the third mother to give birth at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in Kingston on the first day of 2021, with the...
June 12 marks the date Constable Decardo Hylton entered and exited the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), the institution to which he gave four years of invaluable service. Hylton, 26, was killed during a June 12 operation to apprehend an armed...
She had no interest in cars. Her parents did not own one, and neither did her seven elder siblings. It has been over a year, and the story has changed for 27-year-old Claudia Landley, who is one of the few female sales executive at automotive...
