Noted tax expert and attorney-at-law Ethlyn Norton-Coke is dead. Reports are that she died yesterday morning at the Medical Associates Hospital in Kingston, after ailing for some time.
After what has been described as a meteoric rise through the ranks of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), Senior Superintendent James Forbes' career has been thrown into uncertainty following his conviction on corruption charges yesterday.
MOST OF us read comic books and had our favourite characters when were children. We ventured into a world of fantasy with superheroes with super strength battling the evil nemesis and achieving victory against the odds.
PROFESSOR ERROL Morrison has said the recent report at the University of Technology (UTech) which cast aspersions on his leadership of the institution should not be seen as the reason he has been seconded...
The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is expected to roll out 73 buses by the ending of this month, as it gears towards achieving its target of moving 63 million passengers this year....
OVERTAKEN BY a flood of emotions, Dayton Campbell, member of parliament for North West St Ann, on Tuesday encouraged children in Jamaica who are faced...
Contractor General Dirk Harrison has sought to set the record straight, following a sharp rebuke from the Association of Local Government Authorities of Jamaica (ALGAJ) for his alleged snubbing of Mayor of May Pen Scean Barnswell...
CALLING FOR a rebranding of Jamaica's agriculture sector, Opposition spokesman on agriculture J.C. Hutchinson has said the Government should reactivate farmers' organisations and establish an agricultural complex at Ebony Park in Clarendon....
FACED WITH the reality that it will miss the target for achieving 85 per cent mastery in mathematics among grade-four students by next year, the Ministry of Education is this year pumping an additional $390 million into its mathematics programme...
WESTERN BUREAU: A forensic pathologist yesterday told the St James Circuit Court that Trinidad and Tobago schoolteacher Michelle Coudray-Greaves, whose burnt remains were found in a Montego Bay cane field, died from a blow...
SHOCKED THAT the approximately $1 million monthly electricity bill at Holy Trinity High School has been cut by half, the country's sole power provider, the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), made its way to the Central Kingston-based school to investigate...
In a bid to have students eat more nutritious meals, Anthony Garwood, vice-principal of Camperdown High School in Kingston, has called on concessionaires and vendors to become more health conscious about what they sell to the students....
Education Minister Ronald Thwaites has sent a strong message to the leadership of schools across the country that if they "knowingly or negligently" fail to report predatory sexual behaviour of a teacher...
Dr Marshall Hall, chairman for the Mona Campus Council at the University of the West Indies (UWI), has proposed that the country eliminate the system that requires guarantors for student loans. Speaking at the second staging...
WESTERN BUREAU:A police witness in the Michelle Coudray-Greaves murder trial told the St James Circuit Court yesterday that when she executed a search warrant at the home of the accused, Ivan Taylor, she found items ...
MORANT BAY, St Thomas: SEATED IN the heart of Morant Bay along the main street at Teddy Lee's Enterprise for almost quarter of a century, Gleaner vendor Ivylyn Wilson takes her business seriously as a means of providing for her family...
The Grade-Six Achievement Test (GSAT) will be history by 2017. Education Minister Ronald Thwaites yesterday announced that a new exit exam will be in primary schools by that time.
SIGNALLING THE possible revival of the bauxite sector, portfolio minister Phillip Paulwell on Tuesday announced that a deal could be inked with Xinfa of China, which would see the building of a coal-fired refinery...
Children's advocate Diahann Gordon-Harrison is expressing grave concern over the fact that some teachers are "exhibiting predatory sexual behaviour" towards children in schools and that other members of staff are choosing...
Parents whose children are on Government's poor-relief vehicle, the Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH), are being asked to provide between $45 and $60 for the provision of meals two days per week.Education Minister Ronald...
Pork may just have saved the rastaman's life that ill-fated day on May 7, 2003. In fact, Delroy James, known by all as Jah T, is certain that it did. Otherwise, he would have been enjoying the evening with his friends, as he usually did...
Jamaica has met - and in some cases surpassed - key fiscal and monetary targets under its agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), paving the way for a successful first year under the four-year extended fund facility....
