MANDEVILLE, Manchester:FOUNDED IN 1934 by the Sisters of Mercy, the Mount St Joseph Preparatory School, formerly grouped with a high school and a commercial college, has, for decades, excelled in several areas in academics and extra-curricular...
SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth:LONG-SERVING AND committed teachers, an excellent teaching programme, and a child-friendly environment are some of the things that have contributed to the success of the Santa Cruz Preparatory School.
FOLLOWING REPORTS that certain Uncle Ben's rice products have had adverse effects on persons who consumed them in the United States, some supermarket operators were, last evening, holding talks with a view to pulling these items from their shelves.The...
MANDEVILLE, Manchester: EL QUE QUEIRE PUEDE: 'Where there's a will, there's a way' is the motto that governs the 30-year-old institution, El Instituto de Mandevilla....
Western Bureau:Renowned Rastafarian elder Ras Iyah V, who serves on the Rastafari Millennium Council and is chairman of the Rastafari Coral Gardens Committee, says he will be spearheading the formation of a Westmoreland Ganja Farmers' Association, which...
THE PATH to Brazil - the 2014 football World Cup venue - is to be made hassle-free for Jamaicans with the pending signing of an agreement between the governments of both countries.A new reciprocal agreement to...
TRANSPORT MINISTER Dr Omar Davies now has his hands on the framework agreement which Cabinet will use to determine whether to give China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) the go-ahead to construct a harbour and port...
IT CAME as no surprise to many persons in St Ann that the parish's top-performing school in the 2013 Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) was United Learning...
A handwriting expert has testified at the Vybz Kartel murder trial that, in his opinion, the letter which was sent to the Office of the Public Defender was written and signed by the prosecution's main witness.The...
CITING ISSUES of institutional capacity, the Government of Jamaica (GoJ) yesterday urged its multilateral partners to give due consideration to the pace at which reforms are to be made to the country's economy.The message was relayed by Dr Peter...
WESTERN BUREAU:The Junior Plus Kindergarten and Preparatory School, located in Read-ing, St James, is somewhat unconventional as it does not conform to the methods most use to prepare students ...
Like the azure waters of the Caribbean Sea, which it overlooks, Mt Alvernia Preparatory School in Montego Bay is majestic from an academic perspective, outscoring the Grade Six Achievement Test...
Entertainer Vybz Kartel and his four co-accused gave unsworn statements yesterday, saying they knew nothing about the murder for which they have been on trial in the Home Circuit Court since November last year.The Crown,...
The billion-dollar Appliance Traders Limited (ATL) Pension Fund fraud trial yesterday heard detailed evidence about how two judges - one in the United States and the other in Hong Kong - were critical of one of the testing methods used by Erich Speckin,...
With 90 per cent of the students at St Thomas Hill View Kindergarten and Preparatory School gaining places in high schools with averages of between 80 and 85 per cent, it is among the top of the class in the parish....
The police are now investigating the circumstances under which three children were found at a home in Three Miles River, Westmoreland, during a search of a premises on January 29.Two of the children were said to be...
Eastern Paradise Preparatory School, in the heart of Morant Bay, St Thomas, is a model for early risers and hard work, complemented by a grade six teacher who has a passion for her work.Even so, The Gleaner was told that the school used no special...
Dolsie Allen, head of the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC), has described as "horror stories" a plethora of reports from consumers about how banks have wiped out...
The persistent backlog of cases in the courts could easily be alleviated if political effort were to be exerted to applying some immediate and effective remedies, according to Ian Wilkinson, president of the Jamaican Bar Association....
Published:Wednesday | February 12, 2014 | 12:00 AM
ST ANN'S BAY, St Ann:ONE OF the main factors influencing the good academic performances of students at Columbus Preparatory School in St Ann's Bay, St Ann, is preparation over time."For us, we do not believe that GSAT starts...
Published:Wednesday | February 12, 2014 | 12:00 AM
The Child Development Agency (CDA), along with several stakeholders, is moving to make changes to the Child Care and Protection Act (CCPA) to include how street children are treated.Legal consultant working on the project,...
Published:Wednesday | February 12, 2014 | 12:00 AM
Fourteen persons were arrested by investigators from the Organised Crime Investigation Division (OCID) as part of an operation to crack down on human trafficking.
Published:Wednesday | February 12, 2014 | 12:00 AM
WINDSOR CASTLE, St Mary:JULEEN THOMAS-PAGE has been the principal and grade six teacher at Tapp's Preparatory School in Windsor Castle, St Mary, for the last nine years.
