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WESTERN BUREAU: RELATIVES OF Carson Barrett, the 16-year-old Grange Hill High School student who was shot dead on Thursday, believe that his death stemmed from a relationship he had with a female who lives in the community. That relationship...
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WESTERN BUREAU: “WHAT I need is either for him to stop doing what he’s doing or they remove him from the school, because he can’t just be kicking students out of school.” That was the militant stance of Alicia R., the mother of one of the two...
Calabar High School’s acting Principal Sian Wilson is cautioning the school’s old boys’ and parent-teacher associations against making decisions that may not be in the best interest of students. The message follows a decision by the Calabar Old...
With little more than a month before the start of what is expected to be one of the most active hurricane seasons on record, the Jamaican Government has secured US$150-million insurance coverage through its World Bank catastrophe bond programme....
Dr Pauline Mullings has stepped down as the chairperson of the National Child Month Committee. Her announcement surprisingly came on Thursday at the launch of Child Month 2024 at the Lecture Hall of the Institute of Jamaica in downtown Kingston and...
It was a festive atmosphere at the Manchester High School in Mandeville, Manchester, on Friday as it hosted the main event for National School Moves Day 2024 – a celebration of physical activity and wellness. Under the theme ‘Live Life Moving,...
WESTERN BUREAU: LABOUR AND Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles Jr is giving assurance that meetings will soon be held between his ministry and other government portfolio ministries to ensure that the Programme of Advancement Through Health and...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE METEORIC rise of comedian Curley C. Roberts has come as no surprise to those who are familiar with the popular actor and businessman’s journey. He is a past student of St Catherine High School who had plans to become an attorney...
MINISTER OF Tourism Edmund Bartlett heads the list of people who will be honoured at the Northern Caribbean University International Development Foundation’s (NCUIDF) Impact Gala tomorrow. The other honourees are Pamela Appelt, retired judge of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: GANG VIOLENCE within the community of Grange Hill, Westmoreland, has left a grade 10 schoolboy, 16-year-old Carson Barrett, dead and his female schoolmate of Grange Hill High School hospitalised. The incident, which took place some...
Jamaica’s largest banking and financial conglomerate NCB Financial Group Limited has offered more than $53 billion worth of bonds to the market since March to refinance existing debt. One of the bonds currently on the market seeks to raise $6...
King’s Counsel Douglas Leys, who has been retained by incumbent Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn, says she has not stepped down from her post. “I can say affirmatively that she has not resigned, and it would not be advisable for her...
WESTERN BUREAU: While there are significant doubts about the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) current administration, many Jamaicans are still indifferent in their confidence in the People’s National Party (PNP). These are the findings of a poll...
GOVERNMENT LAWMAKER and attorney-at-law Ransford Braham, KC, is cautioning against a possible fallout in the early childhood education sector when the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) bill is passed and implemented. His concern is that there could be...
PASSIONATE ABOUT life at sea, Jamaica-born Captain Rayon Carruthers is determined to make sure that the country’s youth have equitable access to the pleasures of boating. “I don’t want them to feel excluded,” Carruthers said in a recent interview...
WESTERN BUREAU: LESS THAN two weeks after a fire of reportedly malicious origin completely engulfed her two-bedroom house in Salt Spring, St James, 48-year-old Danette Smith is issuing a heartfelt appeal for help to rebuild so she and her two-year-...
