Four months after the Jamaican Government issued a stop order on new recruits because of problems plaguing the Canadian nursing programme, the Pre-University batch of students were given another dose of bitter medicine.
Prompted by the mediocre conditions with which children in the care of the State are forced to grapple, the Office of the Children's Advocate (OCA) is calling on the Government to increase the amount of money it spends on each child being housed in a home or place of safety.
Published:Saturday | September 10, 2011 | 12:00 AM
The brave, powerful testimony of 15-year-old Wolmer's Girls' School lower sixth-form student, Francesca Tavares, drove home the complexity of suicide. Standing before a captivated audience at the Wyndham hotel in New Kingston yesterday...
Published:Saturday | September 10, 2011 | 12:00 AM
Workmen contracted to Surrey Paving and Aggregate Company Limited and the National Works Agency were seen yesterday putting the finishing touches to extensive roadworks on Washington Boulevard in St Andrew....
Published:Saturday | September 10, 2011 | 12:00 AM
Only a few days into the new school year, some students of Jamaica College (JC) in St Andrew have reportedly been sent home for wearing tight pants to school.A Gleaner source noted that students of the school were being sent home by the institution's...
Published:Saturday | September 10, 2011 | 12:00 AM
Members of Citizens United to Reduce Electricity (CURE) along with attorney-at-law Hugh Wildman and Senator Dennis Meadows yesterday announced a three-pronged approach to break the monopoly of the Jamaica Public Service Company Limited (JPS)....
Published:Saturday | September 10, 2011 | 12:00 AM
A COMMITTEE headed by former governor general Kenneth Hall is to consider whether any other Jamaican, living or dead, should be made a National Hero....
Published:Saturday | September 10, 2011 | 12:00 AM
Public-sector workers who rely on the special bus service provided by the Government should soon have more options after four buses were added to the fleet yesterday....
Published:Saturday | September 10, 2011 | 12:00 AM
With eight mentally challenged persons killed in confrontations with the police in the past two years, the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) yesterday announced that it has launched a criminal probe to determine if anyone should be held accountable....
Published:Saturday | September 10, 2011 | 12:00 AM
As non-communicable diseases (NCDs) continue to cause strain on the island's public-health sector, Health Minister Rudyard Spencer says the ministry is committed to mobilising the society to deal with the problem....
Published:Saturday | September 10, 2011 | 12:00 AM
FRENCH CANADIAN Lise Bouffard wants Jamaican farmers to move away from the regular practice of using goat only for meat purposes. She is also concerned that local goat farmers are missing out on a potentially lucrative...
Published:Saturday | September 10, 2011 | 12:00 AM
Dear Counsellor, I would like some tips for students to excel in school.- MariaDear Maria,If your child is gifted in certain areas, then he will need guidance and mentoring...
Published:Saturday | September 10, 2011 | 12:00 AM
MANDEVILLE, Manchester:THE PROMOTION of goat milk production will get under way in Knockpatrick, Manchester, next month under a project being funded by the European Union (EU) and executed by two other international...
Published:Saturday | September 10, 2011 | 12:00 AM
General Secretary of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Senator Aundre Franklin, will form part of an international observer team tasked to oversee tomorrow's presidential election in Guatemala.Franklin, who is already in Guatemala...
Published:Saturday | September 10, 2011 | 12:00 AM
Q: I am 18, and embarking on my career as a female university student. From my studies in biology, I do know that there are dangers in having promiscuous sexual intercourse. However, I am a highly sexed female...
Published:Saturday | September 10, 2011 | 12:00 AM
Minister of National Security Dwight Nelson yesterday visited Jamaicans imprisoned at La Condesa Prison in Cuba. The minister was accompanied by permanent secretary in the ministry, Dianne McIntosh; Jamaica Defence Force Chief of Defence Staff...
The World Bank board of directors has approved a US$100-million loan for Jamaica to support the Government's reform programme to enhance fiscal and debt sustainability.The initiative is part of a coordinated effort by the international financial...
WESTERN BUREAU: The municipal abattoir along Howard Cooke Boulevard in Montego Bay is at the centre of a growing controversy between the St James Parish Council and the Jamaica...
Live-wire Member of Parliament Everald Warmington has charged that the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) has not been fulfilling its mandate and has suggested that its budget be slashed drastically. Warmington, who also accused JSIF of victimising...
The excellent, inspirational, energetic cultural performance of the students of Glenmuir High and St Richard's Primary schools yesterday ideally captured the message educators want to convey going forward for the new school year....
WESTERN BUREAU: Virgin Holidays passengers and Virgin Unite will pump US$3.5 million (J$300 million) into the new Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship - Caribbean, which opened at the ATL Bogue City Centre in Montego...
A minority report, prepared by opposition members of Parliament's Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) examining the first Supplementary Estimates of Expenditure, was yesterday...
Chatter among the Jamaican public is pushing rising sprint sensation Yohan Blake as 'the real big man' after a remarkable effort in the IAAF Diamond League in Switzerland yesterday, but sports analysts are cautioning that Asafa Powell is still a strong contender...
Health Minister Rudyard Spencer has rushed to the defence of the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in the face of the Opposition's claims that the recent exposure of a newborn to an HIV-infected and mentally ill woman there is indicative of a general breakdown...
The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) yesterday hit back at the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) for questioning some of the actions it took while the nation was embroiled in the Christopher 'Dudus' Coke extradition saga last...
