Canada honours Jamaicans
ONTARIO, Canada, CMC: TWO JAMAICANS have been honoured for their contribution to the development of Canada. Educator Dr. Inez Elliston and businesswoman Delores Lawrence were among a group of 29...

CSEC WHIZ-KID - Brilliant Blake takes the cake
OCHO RIOS, St. Ann: WHEN 17-YEAR-OLD Kurt Blake sat the CSEC exams earlier this year, he had no doubt that he would pass all nine subjects. But what shocked him was that he would pass them all with distinction.

UWI student gets inaugural Hector Wynter scholarship
MITCHEL BARNES, a second-year student at the University of the West Indies (UWI), is still bubbling with excitement after being selected as the first recipient of the Hector Wynter Memorial Scholarship.

Synagogue in paradise recalls power of ritual - Toronto family revisits heritage - Son's bar mitzvah held in Jamaica
KINGSTON, Jamaica: "I WANTED something special, different," Daniel explains in the expansive lobby of the Sunset Jamaica Grande in Ocho Rios, days before the religious ceremony marking the 13-year-old's passage into manhood.

Thirty-year sentence for Gideon Warrior
A MEMBER of the notorious Gideon Warriors gang which terrorised residents of eastern St. Andrew for several years was yesterday sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment.

Fifteen Cubans rescued at sea
AFTER BEING adrift for five days without food or water and clinging on for survival, 15 Cubans were rescued at sea by crew members of a bauxite ship off the coast of Clarendon yesterday.