CXC passes decline
DECLINING PASS rates, including an 18 per cent plunge in Mathematics, 8 per cent fall-off in Chemistry and a 7 per cent drop in Physics, have cast a shadow over this year's Caribbean Examin-ations Council results. Less than half of the candidates...

Despite illegality ­ recruiting of teachers, nurses continues
THE INCIDENCE of foreign agents coming to Jamaica to recruit nurses and teachers for their services has become so commonplace and public, that even the police seem surprised to hear that the practice is illegal. Constabulary Communications Network...

C&W chops 298
Nearly 300 employees of Cable and Wireless Jamaica Limited (C&WJ) were served with redundancy notices yesterday. The company says that the job cuts were part of a multi-national rationalisation programme throughout the region, aimed at improving...

Ex-cops group urged to impact Ja positively

PORT MARIA, St. Mary: PUBLIC DEFENDER, Howard Hamilton, has challenged the newly-installed executive of the Association of Past Members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force Area Two (comprising St. Ann, St. Mary and Portland) to channel their productive...

Rae Town - The rebirth of hope

FOR RAE Town community leader Vincent Gordon and residents, Mavis Jarrett and Jane Lowe, yesterday represented the rebirth of hope that the beauty of Rae Town and other depressed communities would again flourish.