WESTERN BUREAU: The University of the West Indies, Mona, Western Jamaica Campus (WJC), is reporting a record 50 per cent growth in new enrolments for the academic year 2014-2015 since its inception in 2008....
When Tavia Johnson, who will be moving on from Sir Clifford Campbell Primary School, in Westmoreland, to Manning's School in September, copped an average of 85 per cent in the 2014 Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT), it brought real joy to her...
The Chinese-owned Pan Caribbean Sugar Company Limited is powering up its generators in order to use bagasse to produce energy to slash its electricity cost and ease the burden on the national grid, the company's...
The Peace and Love in Society (PALS) lobby is marking its 20th anniversary this year with a call for more volunteers to help do what it simply wants to do: Nurture a peaceful Jamaican society.PALS General Manager Janilee Abrikian knows this is a hard,...
Davon Crump, chief executive officer (CEO) of Global Outsourcing Solutions (GO Solutions) Ltd, believes that the Government must move to provide small and medium enterprises (SME) with the necessary business support services if it is to realise economic...
Thousands of children who flocked to Jamworld in Portmore, St Catherine, yesterday for LIME's fifth anniversary Skool Aid back-to-school treat were exposed to safety lessons aimed at cutting the number of child fatalities...
Faced with periods of little business several times in the early years, Carol Miller's thought about giving up. But never the one to be a quitter, Miller roughed it and stuck with the task of building her own company...
Mandeville, Manchester: He had no thought of entering the professional realm of cooking. He did it for fun and as part of his domestic duties when he lived with his grandmother, but the long hours labouring over a coal stove soon...
Efforts are under way for the creation of a significant partnership that is expected to position local businesses to penetrate the highly lucrative Chinese market as well...
Opposition Leader Andrew Holness has expressed confidence that there is a strong wave of underground support for this morning's scheduled peaceful protest to be staged by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in Half-Way Tree...
The Labour Force Survey for April 2014 shows that the number of persons employed up to that month stood at 1,133,000, representing a 25,700 increase over the corresponding period last year....
Leonard Green, president of the All-Island Truckers' Association, has taken issue with the fact that his organisation was not invited to the recent workshop hosted by the Mines and Geology Division to advise stakeholders...
FIRST-TERM Member of Parliament (MP) Dr Andrew Wheatley last year suggested that the Government consider divesting the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), an albatross around the necks of taxpayers.At the time, Wheatley, as a member of the Public...
The Mines and Geology Division has instituted a clampdown on all sand-mining operations along the course of the Rio Minho in Clarendon with immediate effect.
It was a dream come true for 12-year-old Makaio McCarthy when he went to school on the morning of the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) results to hear it announced that he had passed for Campion College in St Andrew....
With two younger children to care for, Nerrisa Hamilton Downie knows that the finances required for her daughter Chantae Bromley's transition from Sandy Bay Primary and Junior High in Hanover to Mt Alvernia High School in St...
Almost one year after Transport Minister Dr Omar Davies defended the planned development of the Goat Islands on the basis that "it wouldn't be right to refuse a proposal for investment on account of two likkle lizard and so on," members of the local private sector have been left similarly unimpressed about the wildlife there.
It's a tragedy in the true sense of the word. The brutal and senseless killing of two-year-old Jayheim Cooper of Lewis district in St Ann has left his parents, Calvin Cooper and Kerina Peart, in shock and anguish and an entire community in disbelief.
The Jamaica Medical Doctors Association (JMDA) is proposing that the Government, through the Ministry of Health, establish a body similar to the Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC) for the health sector to provide a road map for its immediate reform.
In 1808, the Reverend Absalom Jones intoned the unforgettable words: "Remember the rock from whence we were sown." Today, memories of a regrettable period of black history come alive, daily.
There was a mad rush for walking and parking space in Half-Way Tree plazas yesterday, especially at book and shoe stores, which have reported heavy traffic and brisk business in the last two weeks as parents seek back-to-school items.
With less than 24 hours to go before members of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) hit the road in what its leader Andrew Holness has described as a peaceful protest against today's Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) bus fare increases, it is unclear whether they will be joined by civic organisations.
Vibrant and confident, with a bubbly personality and a lovely smile, 11-year-old Ebony Douglas is eagerly anticipating the start of the new school year when she will take her place at Excelsior High School in St Andrew.
