We were right! - Education ministry defends position to move students to Steer Town Primary and Junior High
The Education ministry has rushed to address reports about space concerns at the Steer Town Primary and Junior High School in St Ann. The school has yet to start classes for 115 new students who were placed there based on their performance in the Grade Nine Achievement Test...
UWI gets over swine flu
Normal operations are scheduled to resume at the University of the West Indies today, following the lifting of the restriction on social activities which had been imposed in the wake of an outbreak of the influenza A (H1N1) virus on the campus...
Brown Sugar's victory sweet for Bogue Hill
WESTERN BUREAU: JOY HAS returned to the community of Bogue Hill in Montego Bay, St James, in more ways than one. It is celebrating the unprecedented success of their neighbour, singer Mitzie 'Brown Sugar' Campbell - the 2009 Digicel Rising Stars winner...
Pickersgill slams Gov't ahead of conference
In a likely dress rehearsal for this weekend's People's National Party (PNP) annual conference, an animated party leadership yesterday assailed the governing Jamaica Labour Party on its performance over the past two years...
Police video unit on hold
The Jamaica Constabulary Force's (JCF) Video Identification Unit which was launched earlier this year has been put on hold. Speaking with The Gleaner yesterday, JCF spokesman Karl Angell said Attorney General, Senator Dorothy Lightbourne...
NEPA rejects initial report on acid spill
THE NATIONAL Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has rejected the initial report presented by the company blamed for last Saturday's sulphuric acid spill in the Kingston Harbour.NEPA had given Industrial Chemicals Company (ICC) three days to submit...
'Award of contracts worrisome'
A REPORT on a Special Investigation by the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) has suggested that there was a deviation from the procurement guidelines in the award of contracts by at least two public bodies in North East St Catherine....
Kern case continues Sept 28
PAULA LLEWELLYN, the chief prosecutor in the corruption and money-laundering case against Kern Spencer and Coleen Wright, has described the subject of new evidence that forced an adjournment to the trial as "a matter of great importance".
Thursdaytalk - hottest topics on the cocktail circuit
2,000 guests 1. For the big event out west, the organisers have 'invited' 2,000 people. If that was not bad enough, the 'invitation' came with a rider soliciting contribution ...