IT exam fiasco - Millions wasted with high failure rate and no-shows
MORE THAN $1 million went down the drain because 48 per cent of the students for whom the Government paid to sit the information technology (IT) examination in June did not turn up for the exam.
Crime levels highest under Forbes
STATISTICS SUPPLIED by the police show that Commis-sioner Francis Forbes has presided over the highest incidence of murder in a single year 1,139 in 2001, and, according to his analysis...
Funding woes hamper move against ensign scale pest
AFTER MORE than a year, the Ministry of Agriculture is yet to secure funding to import another ladybird beetle to help fight the ensign scale pest, which has been wreaking havoc on ornamental plants across the island.
Disabled community dissatisfied - Believes Local Gov't can do more
WHILE YESTERDAY'S launch of the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation's (KSAC) 'On Street Parking for the Disabled' has reduced the complaints of that community, the dissatisfaction remains.
Double murder rocks Kgn 13
GUNMEN STRUCK in the violence-plagued community of Gem Road, Kingston 13 yesterday, shooting three persons, two of them fatally.
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