One hundred and twenty-six Jamaicans have been selected for recognition through Governor General Sir Patrick Allen during the National Honours and Awards Ceremony to be held at King’s House next October on Heroes Day. The 2023 list of recipients...
When Aly-Anna Holness, National Reading Competition Champion for 2022, started the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) process three years ago, she resolved in her mind that she would become a 2023 Government Scholarship recipient. And with that vision in...
Unlike the average preteen girl, Shannon-Elise Barrett, Jamaica’s top-performing girl in the Primary Exit Profile (PEP), did not get the opportunity to bond with and grow up in the loving care of her mother. She only knows her mom through images...
For Amoy Farquharson, the journey to obtaining her first-class honours Bachelor of Education degree in Mathematics Education, from the MICO University College this year, was not an easy one. The newly appointed ambassador for the Each 1 Reach 1...
When Aaron Waugh, 11-year-old graduate of Jessie Ripoll Primary School, was told he was the top-performing boy for the 2023 sitting of the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations, he was overjoyed. He and top girl Shannon-Elise Barrett, of...
Were it not for the need to garner more wisdom to share with others, Nickania Pryce, lecturer in pharmaceutical studies at the University of Technology (UTech), might not have said “yes” to being a part of this year’s Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence...
Of the six universities she applied to, in order to fulfill the requirements for a scholarship under the Fulbright United States (US) Student Programme, only one accepted popular associate clinical psychologist and host of the JN Circle Thrive...
Lerone Laing, chief executive officer of the Toll Authority, who faced controversy in 2021 when questions were raised around whether he was qualified for the $5-million-a-year job, may soon have to consider permanently stepping away from the post...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding was yesterday bombarded with criticism over a Sunday night statement in which he appeared to imply that People’s National Party (PNP) supporters should ensure their candidate wins the next general election by using...
As the curtain came down on Nurses Week on the weekend, Patsy Edwards-Henry, president of the Nurses Association of Jamaica (NAJ), renewed a call for advanced practice nursing legislation, more than 40 years in the making, to be taken through the...
Saffrey Brown, project director of Project STAR, has for over a decade been well-known across the island for working with numerous agencies in providing private sector-based solutions for troubled communities. However, to Brown, none of the...
As Project Social Transformation and Renewal (STAR) looks forward to celebrating its first anniversary next Tuesday, the private sector drivers behind the initiative say it will not be a success if more community members do not buy in. With that,...
As delegates from various Caribbean territories met on Monday morning for the Caribbean Union of Teachers (CUT) Women’s Biennial Conference, at least one Jamaican educator, Nadine Molloy, principal of Ardenne High School, made it known that the...
Of the 774 individuals who graduated from the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) yesterday, 80 per cent were women, highlighting the continuing failure of male students to catch up in numbers to their female counterparts in tertiary...
When tugboat captain Euton Clarke was told on Sunday that his vessel was not needed to pull in the stranded Dominican Republic Navy training ship, Juan Bautista Cambiaso, he was left disappointed. Disappointed because he had faith in himelf to be...
Eighty fortunate Jamaican students will have the opportunity of receiving scholarships and bursaries from the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) as part of the political party’s 80th milestone anniversary celebrations this year. Prime Minister Andrew...
THE GOVERNMENT is to consider converting the Jamaica Urban Transit Company’s (JUTC) Portmore depot into a hub for compressed natural gas (CNG) refueling which will be fully powered by New Fortress Energy (NFE). This is in an effort to accommodate...
THE MINISTRY of Education and Youth has reported that it has been spared the huge crisis faced at the end of last year’s summer term as there have been far fewer resignations over the past year. From January to June, the ministry said 287 teachers...
With 638 murders recorded in Jamaica up to June 24, residents of the troubled inner-city community of Olympic Gardens in Kingston got some relief from the nightly fear of crime and violence through the J. Wray...
IN LIEU of various infractions against children, Kenneth Richards, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kingston, says the entire nation needs to be caring and loving of each other, while urging families and adults to be principled in their stand...
THE MOMENT Ajaé Clacken’s name was called as the first 2023 recipient of the Governor General’s Achievement Award (GGAA) 2023 yesterday, he realised the true reason the universe forced him to remain in Jamaica a year ago despite having his eyes set...
Given Lascelles Chin’s decades of contributions to nation building, it would have been remiss of Prime Minister Andrew Holness to not be present at yesterday’s thanksgiving service for the life of the 86-year-old businessman and philanthropist....
While diplomats reflected yesterday on the philanthropic business leader the late Lascelles Chin became throughout his 86 years of life, his daughter, Lisa Watts, spoke instead of how her down-to-earth father took her to a club for the very first...
CONCERNS HAVE heightened locally around the safety of electric vehicles after a plug-in hybrid MINI Countryman burst into flames while being charged at a residence in Hope Pastures, St Andrew, on Friday. With growing demand and push to accept...
AS THE time wound down to 2 p.m. yesterday for the announcement of secondary level school placements and results from the grade six Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations for 2023, Tanya Lowden, a spinal cancer warrior and parent, found herself...
