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Last year July, Neville McCauley visited Jamaica for a family reunion with his brother Rudolf Noel, who lives in Cedar Valley, St Thomas.Neville Mitchell and Danna Emmanuel are parents of two-year-old Augustus Neville Mitchell…
Amid a warning from the MSME Alliance which last week said numerous players in the sector could be affected if the award of some government contracts are pegged to their audited accounts, the chairman of the National Contracts Commission (NCC) says…
THE President of the Jamaica Teacher’s Association (JTA), Nadine Molloy Young, has sought to explain the reasons behind her organisation’s opposition to performance-based pay for teachers. Education Minister Andrew Holness last…
Public defender Earl Witter has called for immediate action to stem what he has described as the rising cases of human-rights violations in Jamaica.Witter, who was addressing the first annual human-rights lecture staged…
Dennis Robotham, the president of the St Catherine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said his organisation would be revisiting the idea of installing electronic surveillance in Spanish Town as part of a crime-fighting initiative.”…
A BUS transporting a team of University of the West Indies (UWI) footballers from the Mona campus to play their western counterparts in Montego Bay in an intramural competition crashed head-on…
OCHO RIOS, St Ann: IMPROVING TEACHER training, greater use of technology, reducing class sizes, and a more cohesive and inclusive approach are some of the areas authorities should be targeting in order to get Jamaica’s…
A MATHEMATICS expo has been the latest initiative by administrators of Ensom City Primary School in St Catherine to boost students’ performance in the subject. The brainchild of outgoing principal Stanley Jones, the event showcased several human…
Describing it as “quite a hefty sum”, Opposition Spokesman on Mining and Energy Phillip Paulwell has questioned the terms of reference which led the Government to be paying US$105,000 (or approximately J$8,9250,000) to an overseas consultant for its…
DESPITE funding being a major problem in the country’s health sector, administrators at the St Ann’s Bay Hospital have allowed close to $2 million to sit idle in an account for two decades.An advertisement published in The Gleaner on Saturday…
