The wait is over - GSAT results out today; ministry asks not to be consulted on transfers
As the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) results are released to schools today, the Ministry of Education has reminded parents and guardians that transfers for students are not normally accommodated. However, the education ministry said in a release yesterday...
- Earning exam success
- Gov't worries about foreign exchange - Politicians talk over the possibility of an IMF return
- A message from Busta's pants - 77-y-o man learns to take pride in work from tailoring for former PM
- Sugar workers hold their breath - Gov't promises long-overdue payments will be made by deadline
- Missing computers dominate PAC meeting
- Government lends Air Jamaica $9b
- There is justice for the poor, says Lightbourne
- MAJ head worries about radio licensing
- Hillel Academy helps 'clothe' Salvation Army
- Woman looks back at 47 years of change
- Are you feeling the pinch?
- GSAT keepsake coming!
'Love in any language' - Church of the Open Bible ministers in Spanish and French
The world truly is a small place, but it will be more so on Sundays, thanks to the Church of the Open Bible's bold new initiative to teach some Sunday School classes in Spanish and French. The Washington Boulevard-based church commenced their novel programme...
- Wealth of infoat CHOICES Career Expo
- From cook to aspiring PhD graduate
- Teaching - more than just a job
- Study Technology: Is it the answer to Ja's learning problems?
- Maintenance personnel in demand
- Farmer Greg's widow, children still in shock
- 'Train doctors for court'
- Supreme Court duo charged
- Europe boosts government coffers
- Across the nation
Lee Chin triumphs
Following what sources say was a somewhat stormy meeting with bondholders in Kingston last Friday, billionaire Michael Lee Chin's Caribbean holding company, AIC Barbados (AICB), seems set to get the nod from the Jamaican investors, separate sources...
- Scotiabank setting up $360m Caribbean contact centre
- Walkerswood takeover gets green light
- Capital and Credit signs two new remittance partners, drops three - Aims to turnaround loss-making business
- Energen/GEM to inject US$125-200m into sugar factories - Makes down payment on Bernard Lodge, Monymusk
- Cuba central bank head replaced
- Cuba rejects offer to rejoin OAS
- IDB takes equity stake in CariCRIS
- Eastern Caribbean awaits Libyan embassy, bank
- Royal Caribbean income hurt by swine flu
- Ten big banks get OK to repay US$68B
Unresolved! - JFF, KSAFA dispute over referee branding continues
A meeting that spanned close to seven hours Monday between the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) board of directors and top-notch executives of the Kingston and St Andrew Football Association failed to resolve the issue of branding of match officials...
- Gayle doubtful through injury
- Pakistan in Super 8
- Top-quality Jamaica trials anticipated
- D-Day for DPL hopefuls
- Issa rides into spotlight for Carib Carnival
- Winston Griffiths - the Derby jockey
- Service for 'Billy' Williams
- Madrid sign Kaka from AC Milan
- Sehwag out World Cup
- Bonner, Dwyer shine in Senior Cup
- Bailey, Henry top singles
EDITORIAL - Another promise for National Heroes Park
We have not recently commented on the matter. This newspaper, however, remains severely provoked by the poor upkeep of the National Heroes Park in particular and how badly Jamaica maintains its public spaces in general. We are shamed too by the treatment of shrines...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Tone down graduation 'bashments'
The Editor, Sir: The matter of graduation exercises and the buffoonery indulged in by some parents overdressing their youngsters at said ceremonies, along with the related trappings, are two separate issues. The prime minister is right in arguing...
- Shift system a blight on primary education
- The potential of the PBCJ
- Short-sighted education plan
- Graduation policy - a waste of time
- Dancehall on wheels
- Let's look at CARICOM
- Embracing sex education
- Faced with great moral conflict
- Rethinking the current student loan system
- Bring back the death penalty
The new Smile Orange revels in nostalgia
Is there anything left to say about Smile Orange? Who amongst us, almost four decades after its initial run, does not know its quintessentially Jamaican protagonist, the pragmatic and irrepressible trickster Ringo Smith? He long ago escaped the typed page...
- Europe irie with message, sound - Junior Banton says Germans focus on 'livity', not poverty
- 'Vibez' Positive at Fairfield Theatre
- Picasso book of sketches stolen from Paris museum
- Spotlight on Festival of the Performing Arts
- Something extra
To manage your diabetes, get some chores done!
Dear Dr Gardner, I am hoping this email finds you well. I was diagnosed with acute juvenile diabetes and hypertension 14 years ago. I believe I have been doing fairly well, considering the number of years. However, of late, I have been having issues...
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