With the new academic year set to commence next Monday, September 2, several schools in St Ann are still hunting for teachers and at least one school has had to scale back programmes because of inadequate classroom spaces. In a social media post on...
Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke arguably recovered the Jamaican economy from shocks faster than his predecessors, but poverty increased over the pandemic-recovery period. “Jamaica is one of the few countries that have recovered from the fiscal...
Jamaica’s finance minister, Dr Nigel Clarke, joining the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) senior management team is being hailed by leaders and economists across Latin America and the Caribbean as a signal moment. They expressed hope that his...
Mathematics expert Dr Samuel McDaniel has asserted that a complete overhaul of primary education is necessary to address the consistently mediocre performance of students in the subject area at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC)...
When Tessanne Chin surprised Sasha Gay Sutherland with a $500,000 scholarship for her Bachelor of Music in Performance degree on Saturday evening, the young woman was left utterly speechless. The presentation occurred on stage right after...
Early childhood educator Missie Gloria Pennant found that the Read Right from the Start literacy intervention programme offered by United Way of Jamaica (UWJ) has changed her life. Pennant was one of 100 teachers across six parishes who completed...
WESTERN BUREAU: Life will never be the same for the two children shared by Kayann Sterling and Horace Campbell after both parents died in separate incidents during the summer holiday. However, Molly Campbell, the children’s maternal grandmother,...
Islington, St Mary Approximately 200 children benefited from The On Di Go for Christ feeding programme and Back-to-School Treat held on Saturday in the depressed community of Islington in St Mary. The event, which had its inception in 2020, is the...
WESTERN BUREAU: As the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) prepares to answer a lawsuit brought against it by one of its own former presidents, there is uncertainty over whether the legal showdown may splinter the 60-year-old organisation or if it...
A conductor who was slapped with a life sentence for stabbing another conductor to death in a New Year’s Eve dispute over passengers had his sentence overturned by the Court Appeal and replaced with a 27-year, nine-month prison term. The appellant...
Like scores of Jamaican youth before him, Brandon Farquharson, 2024 Burger King Open Tertiary Scholarship recipient, has to bury the idea of becoming a medical doctor because he failed the self-financing programme required by the university of his...
Declaring that it is only a matter of time before some of Jamaica’s correctional facilities crumble, chairman of the Jamaica Federation of Corrections Arlington Turner says correctional officers and prisoners are existing in poor conditions behind...
They started their formal education with lockdowns and online schooling as COVID-19 pummelled the education system four years ago. Now, as they enter their final primary school years, they face another daunting setback in the wake of Hurricane...
Despite having over a decade of teaching experience and numerous commendations and awards to his name, Coswell Barnett has been unable to secure a full-time position for the past four years. And he believes it is because he is blind. With just 25...
They lit a bonfire last Friday evening, hoping its flame – if even symbolically – would burn the ghastly memories of two Sundays ago when their lives changed forever. Eighteen persons were shot, eight of them killed, among them fellow residents...
The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is being urged to revise its policy for body-worn cameras (BWCs), specifically addressing the consequences for officers who fail to activate their devices. Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ), a leading human rights...
Nine incidents of police failing to activate body cameras have triggered renewed scrutiny of the protocols intended to uphold transparency and accountability in interactions between the security forces and the public. These cases are among 14...
Sixteen years after Jamaica and the European Union (EU) struck a duty-free deal, shelves devoid of each other’s goods on both sides have left former EU Ambassador Marianne Van Steen and local business leaders disheartened. Van Steen, whose tour of...
Western Bureau: Western Jamaica, the nation's undisputed murder capital, woke up to more carnage yesterday with the murder of three persons in separate shooting incidents in St Elizabeth and Westmoreland. Those killed have been identified as 70...
When Lorie-Ann Hibbert was a youngster going to primary school, one of her close friends collapsed and was in critical need of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). She stood there in fear and could only manage to watch as someone else rushed in to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Come the start of the new school year, students attending the nine high schools across western Jamaica will now be able to travel in much greater comfort and efficiency as the Montego Bay Metro Bus Company (MBMBC) has been allocated...
In paying tribute to her parents, United States Vice President and Democratic Party nominee for president, Kamala Harris, said among the lessons her Jamaican father Donald J. Harris taught her was to be fearless. “When my sister and I accompanied...
The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) says it has instructed the Jamaica Public Service Company Limited (JPS) to reduce some customers’ bills in the next billing period. Further, JPS has been directed to reissue those bills issued in August with...
Jamaica should have acted on the $5.5-billion offer from the United Kingdom’s Government for the construction of a new prison first disclosed in 2015, chairman of the Jamaica Federation of Corrections, Arlington Turner, believes. Turner, who has...
Before checking for her results in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations, Ocasia Graham received a call from her parents and they assured her that they would still be proud of her regardless of how she performed....
