GSAT results next week
THE RESULTS of the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT), which assesses the aptitude of students entering the high school system from primary and preparatory schools, are to be made public next weekend.

It's the wrong way!

EDUCATION MINISTER Burchell Whiteman has criticised principals of the nation's comprehensive high and high schools for threatening to boycott the opening of school this September if the matter of violence in their institutions is not addressed.

US deports citizen in error
A 35-YEAR-OLD American woman, who was wrongfully deported to Jamaica on June 10, has finally been allowed back home by the US Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS).

Alfred Duncan: A committed educator

ALFRED AUGUSTUS Duncan, Principal of Windward Road All-Age School, has won the 2000 Governor-General's Achievement Award for Kingston. A Justice of the Peace, Mr. Duncan was born in Portland in 1929.