The National Parent-Teacher Association of Jamaica (NPTAJ) has warned that Monday’s Court of Appeal ruling on a primary school’s denial of access to a female student over her dreadlocks could further disrupt school-grooming policies. “It can create...
The Jamaica Association of Principals of Secondary Schools (JAPSS) is urging the Ministry of Education to swiftly repair schools damaged by Hurricane Beryl to ensure that they are ready for reopening in September. A preliminary assessment conducted...
Players in the island’s construction industry are not expecting the local skilled labour shortage to impact rebuilding efforts as the country recovers from the impact of Hurricane Beryl. While acknowledging that there has been limited assessment of...
Though visibly distressed by the wreckage that Hurricane Beryl caused on the historic property, the management of Lover’s Leap in Yardley Chase, St Elizabeth, is resolute in their efforts to restore the attraction to its former glory. Perched atop...
Residents of Bull Savannah in St Elizabeth have rallied together to fast-track their recovery from the powerful Category 4 Hurricane Beryl, which uprooted their lives last Wednesday. On Friday, Edwin Powell was busy repairing his neighbour’s roof...
Nicolette Dinham’s entire house in Compound, Alligator Pond, was blown away when Hurricane Beryl struck last Wednesday, causing widespread damage to homes and businesses in this southern Manchester fishing community. “A movie alone mi see dis inna...
Despite experiencing several landslides, downed trees and light wires and losing cell phone connectivity from the impact of Hurricane Beryl, residents in some communities in East Rural St Andrew are breathing a sigh of relief that the storm did not...
As Hurricane Beryl lashed Jamaica with life-threatening winds and heavy rainfall on Wednesday, several people sought shelter in facilities across the Corporate Area. At a temporary shelter on Church Street for the homeless, the majority of persons...
Mindful that their community is likely to be flooded from heavy rains associated with Hurricane Beryl, some residents of Bamboo River in St Thomas on Tuesday were busy preparing to evacuate the area. “Mi nah stay in ya. Mi nuh know ‘bout nobody...
Residents in some flood-prone communities are hoping to be spared the worst from Hurricane Beryl even as they admit they have been lax in their preparations for the looming storm. “Mi just a hope she (Beryl) turn”, Petal Powell, a 52-year-old...
Whenever a resident in Mocho, Clarendon, visits their police station to make a report, they have to wait outside the containers that house the precinct for an available officer. This arrangement is less than ideal, Mocho resident Sheldon Allison...
The Education Transformation and Oversight Committee (ETOC) has achieved “very strong implementation” of the recommendations from the Orlando Patterson report to date, its chair, Dr Adrian Stokes, asserted. Speaking at a press conference yesterday...
While questioning the basis on which a call for the resignations of the Ministry of Health’s permanent secretary Dunstan Bryan and chief medical officer, Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie is being made, Jamaicans for Justice Executive Director Mickel...
Residents of Maverley in St Andrew are expressing disappointment over what they say is the snail’s pace construction of a multimillion-dollar park in their community. Two years ago, Prime Minister Andrew Holness and other members of the central...
The Government will be ramping up its effort to rid sidewalks of abandoned motor vehicles and other forms of bulky waste with the addition of 50 new garbage trucks to the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA). The trucks, which were...
A frustrated mother is accusing the administration of Mona High School in St Andrew of blighting her daughter’s academic future after she was suspended from school during the exam season. Tracie-Anne Williams said her daughter, an eighth-grader...
Permanent Secretary Dustan Bryan has blamed the death, migration, and retirement of former staff for the Ministry of Health and Wellness’ inability to finalise its appropriation accounts for submission to the auditor general. The Auditor General’s...
WHILE COMMENDING Jamaica for its effort in collecting data on education performance, Dr Jaime Saavedra, World Bank human development regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean believes a more effective use of this data is needed to craft...
A commitment by Transport Minister Daryl Vaz to have regulations in place to guide ride-hailing operations in Jamaica by the next financial year has been met with scepticism by his opposition counterpart. “I am not optimistic,” Opposition Spokesman...
In November last year, Latoya Linton received the devastating news that she had cancer of the womb. The diagnosis came after months of discomfort, multiple doctor visits and various medications to combat what she was initially told were non-...
Located in a residential community in the Corporate Area is a farm that is breaking the conventional standards of farming by eliminating soil from the growing process. The process is called aeroponics, and farm owner 35-year-old John Mark Clayton...
Five international construction companies will be making bids to rehabilitate the country’s roads under the Government’s $40-billion Shared Prosperity through Accelerated Improvement to Our Road Network (SPARK) Programme, Minister with...
Despite the “moderate” impact observed on Monday as hundreds of taxi operators across the island withdrew their services, citing grievances with the Island Traffic Authority’s (ITA) demerit points system and other regulatory issues, one sector...
In a few weeks, the first batch of students enrolled in the Sixth-Form Pathways Programme (SFPP) will leave the high-school system. And although principals say they had to push through resource constraints and find creative means to get their...
A worrying cloud of uncertainty over four vocational subjects dissipated on Tuesday after the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) reversed its decision to discontinue certifying them. Education sector players have labelled the reversal as a...
