Budget 2008-2009 Shaw confident
DAYS AWAY from the tabling of the first budget estimates since forming the government last September, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration is not worried about keeping its pre-election promises.
Failing grade! Many teachers not tech savvy - Survey
Thousands of the nation's public-school teachers are barely computer literate. A survey commissioned by e-Learning Jamaica Company Limited (e-ljam) last year showed that more than 60 per cent of secondary-school teachers were in dire need of computer training suited to novices.
'Incompetence not surprising'
Hopeton Henry, principal of Seaforth High School, St Thomas, said he is not surprised at the findings of the survey.
Financial investigators complete training
Some 50 public sector financial investigators from Jamaica and other Caribbean countries have completed a short, intensive training course. They graduated recently from the Caribbean Regional Drug Law Enforcement Training Centre at Twickenham Park in St Catherine.
No magic wand - Shaw
Government must reconcile in the 2008-2009 Budget an increased pay package for nurses, police and other civil servants, as well as user- and tuition-fee removal from public hospitals and schools.Finance Minister Shaw said, however, that people should...
Visiting Inveresk - The story of Robert Wedderburn of Ja and Scotland
It's a beautiful, peaceful afternoon with hardly a human sound in evidence. The bluster of the cold wind tugging at our coats is the only interference as we stand there outside historic Inveresk Lodge, on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
'Cay stones' Life better than mainland
THERE ARE men at the Pedro Cays who are said to have been there since the place was one grain of sand. They have seen countless storms and captured an uncountable number of fish and conch.
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