Budget cutters - UTech students haggle over government spending
Students of the University of Technology (UTech) have put forward a continued reduction in budgetary support for tertiary education and the slashing of waste in public-sector entities as some of ways in which the Bruce Golding administration could cut spending this fiscal year...
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Will I lose my green card if I divorce?
I have two questions and would really appreciate your advice. I am about to get married to a United States citizen and he plans to file for me. However, I am in school in Jamaica and we would like to begin the process of filing. I would travel back and forth...
Bolt offered US$100m Chinese contract
A five-year, multimillion-US-dollar deal reportedly offered to sprint sensation Usain Bolt by a Chinese company could also allow the athletics superstar to eventually spin off his own division of the firm...
Wolmer's denied by late goal
A late goal from Mark Morris yesterday enabled St Andrew Technical High School (STATHS) to record a come-from-behind 2-2 draw against Wolmer's in their ISSA/Pepsi/Digicel Manning Cup schoolboy football Group D match at Bumper Hall...
EDITORIAL - Translate diaspora intent into action
This past August scores of young Jamaicans who live overseas, as well as young people born abroad to Jamaican parents, met in Kingston for a major conference hosted by the Jamaican Government. The main theme of this get-together for this group, hailed as future leaders...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Level the playing field for architects, draughtsmen
The Editor, Sir: As a young, budding architect in Jamaica, I found the article about 'Unregistered draughtsmen bad for business' quite entertaining. As a young man seeking registration from the Architecture Registration Board this year...
Trevor Rhone - master dramatist
Trevor Rhone of Beckford and Smith's High School (later renamed St Jago High School) was one of a handful of promising young male performing artistes who sometimes attended rehearsals in their school uniforms in the mid-to-late 1950s. Others included actors Winston Stona...
Milton's mermaid
Fair warning, this could get weird. A few weeks ago, while I was in Portland, I came across a small group of people huddled together in conversation near the section of the Rio Grande where visitors often start their rafting expedition. It had rained quite a bit hours earlier....