Teachers' rage -540,000 children out of school - Gov't flung in limbo
THERE ARE growing fears among education officials in Jamaica about the impact of tomorrow's strike by the nation's teachers especially on children to sit exams soon.
Offer rejected
UNDER THE existing wage claim, the Government's offer included a three per cent increase on salary with effect from April 2002 and a further three per cent from April 1, 2003 and April 1, 2004. The teachers wanted:
Teaching tolerance through cricket
IT'S TIME for cricket practice as three teenagers saunter onto a hard, cracking netball court, in the middle of a dusty playground in Bennett Land, off Waltham Park Road in Kingston.
Who would steal a child?
NATALIE SMITH remembers the woman who took her child in January of this year as a "nice" person, kind, almost family. Certainly not a disturbed, evil person who would resort to stealing an eight-month-old infant.
NHT review high cost of housing construction
OCHO RIOS THE RISING cost of housing construction in Jamaica has sent the National Housing Trust back to the drawing board to revise how intends to provide affordable housing to the majority of its contributors.
MoBay oil spill under control?
WESTERN BUREAU: THURSDAY NIGHT'S oil spill in the Montego Bay Free Port, which caused quite a major scare for security, port and environmental officials, is being blamed on an abandoned pipeline, which officials say leaks oil into the harbour from...
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