Still illiterate! - Teachers claim grade four reading programme has failed
Some Corporate Area primary school teachers are complaining that students are still not performing as they ought to on the grade four literacy exam. One teacher told The Gleaner that at least half the grade four students were reading below the required level at her school....
Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) results out on Friday
All 51,000 of the island's primary school students who sat this year's Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) will know their high school placement for the next academic year by Friday, June 8, when their schools will receive the exam results.
'Alarming' rise of radical Islam in Caribbean
WASHINGTON (CMC):In the wake of the foiling of an attempted plot to blow up John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, counter-terrorism officials say the rise of radical Islam in the Caribbean and Latin America is "alarming". All four suspects in the plot had ties to the region.
JFK accused terrorists remanded in T&T jail
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Two Caribbean-born men named in a terrorist plot to blow up John F.Kennedy airport in New York, were yesterday remanded until June 11 when they appeared in a Magistrate's Court in Trinidad. Chief Magistrate Sherman McNicholls remanded Abdul Kadir...
Prime Minister of Jamaica announces new projects for Montego Bay
Western Bureau: Three new major government projects were announced for Montego Bay on Sunday night, when Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller ended her three-day campaign swing through western Jamaica, with a massive rally at Sam Sharpe Square...
Protests affect Caribbean Council Exams (CXC) students
Several Portland students from communities such as Buff Bay, St. Margaret's Bay, Anchovy, Manchioneal and Hope Bay, were yesterday prevented from sitting their Caribbean Council Exams (CXC) as roadblocks were mounted in protest over deplorable road conditions.
University of West Indies (UWI) to expand DNA lab across the Caribbean
With Jamaican forensic science, namely pathology, under fire over the controversial Bob Woolmer case, its reputation could be boosted by the expansion across the Caribbean of the country's only private DNA laboratory. Since 2005 at the University of West Indies (UWI) Mona...
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