As long as her daughter was OK, Pamela Bailey had no problem. Earning the silver medal yesterday in the women's 100-metre finals of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Daegu, South Korea, Veronica Campbell-Brown made her mother proud - as always....
SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD KADEEN and Kadian Thompson have been top achievers at Manning's School, Westmoreland, over the years, and this has landed them on the school's honour roll.Though they are twin sisters, they had different study times and techniques...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the disappointment of their hometown hero Usain Bolt's failure to defend his 100m title at the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, yesterday, residents in Sherwood Content, Trelawny, are confident that he will come good in the 200m and 4x100m events....
"Oh God! Usain no!" shouted Curtis, a fraction of a second after the second gun was fired signalling a false start in the final of the men's 100 metres at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea. "The man false start, star...
Daegu, South Korea: As Jamaican Yohan Blake raced across the line with arms outstretched, celebrating his new status as the youngest world 100m champion, many inside the Daegu Stadium were still trying to figure out what had happened earlier...
Usain Bolt's disqualification because of a false start and Yohan Blake's win was a bittersweet victory for Jamaica yesterday in the men's 100-metre finals of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Daegu,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Veda Blake's shouts of praise were expected to be loudest at the Bogue Hill Baptist Church in St James yesterday, mere hours after she watched her son Yohan snatch the 100-metre finals for men at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics....
Back in 2009, Usain Bolt gave his support to an impending new false-start rule which yesterday proved to be the impediment which, at least for the time being, has robbed him of legendary status in track and field.In August 2009, Bolt, who had just a...
Odean Skeen and Odail Todd, two of Jamaica's most promising young sprinters, said they were sad to see Usain Bolt false start in the final of the men's 100m at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea...
Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell has explained his decision to withdraw from the men's 100m at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics here in Daegu, South Korea, and has warned that he will bounce back from this latest setback stronger than ever.
STUDENT TEACHERS who are barely attaining competence at teacher training institutions across the island are causing serious concerns among stakeholders in the education system.
The Bath Botanical Gardens in the community of Bath, St Thomas, has the distinction of being the oldest in the country and, after the St Vincent Botanic Gardens in St Vincent, the second oldest in the Western Hemisphere.
POOR LEADERSHIP has again been identified as one of the major factors causing the underperformance of several schools across the island. Senior educators have agreed that despite all the other factors facing students and teachers, better leadership from principals could lead to improvements...
Despite lingering tensions over the conceptualisation of the long-awaited Professional Standards for Educators in Jamaica, the head of the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) announced that teachers will have to adhere to its stipulations by 2012.
More than a decade into the 21st century, a sizeable portion of the education ministry's operations and interactions with schools has not been computerised.
Jamaicans United for Sustainable Development takes note of the most recent statements on the economy made by Minister Christopher Tufton and Dr Gladstone Hutchinson of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) who have at long last shown a facing up to reality and a recognition of the crisis which has confronted us since 2007.
Lamenting the absence of Jamaican men who have sex with men (MSM) from an international HIV/AIDS workshop that was on at the Hilton Rose Hall, Montego Bay, gays here staged a peaceful stand outside the gates of the resort last Wednesday.
The Reverend Michelle Smith, 43, had been flirtatious with females ever since her introduction to lesbianism at age nine, a lifestyle that she says left a void in her life.
IS CHRISTOPHER 'Chris' Moulton of Discovery Bay, St Ann, alive or dead? If he is alive, where is he, and why is he not communicating with his loved ones?
MANDEVILLE, Manchester: ALL 918 recent graduates at Northern Caribbean University in Mandeville beamed, most punctuating the moment they collected the blue miniature folder holding their degrees by giving a thumps up.
MONTEGO BAY, St James:Integrated food service distributor, Caribbean Producers Jamaica (CPJ), disbursed $1 million in scholarships to 33 children of its employees, who recorded excellent academic performances in last school year.
WESTERN BUREAU:Dr Horace Chang, minister of water, housing and environment, has indicated that it will take $1 billion to completely renovate Montego Bay's water-piping system.
