Caught in the act on Mount Moreland
I peered over the bushes; nobody. I walked about five paces to my left and glanced up the hill; still nobody. The coast was clear. Now was my chance! I looked across the road at the old, beat up car parked outside the only shop I saw in Mount Moreland, high above sea level in St Catherine.
Kevin Sangster - a man of letters
"I think of myself as a voracious reader," says Kevin Sangster. "I like to keep abreast with what's going on internationally." It is this love for reading that has kept this career attorney writing letters to the Editor of The Gleaner for more than 10 years...
Packer offers solutions to education 'debacle'
PRINCIPAL OF The Mico University College, Dr Claude Packer, has noted with grave concern, the report of the dismal performance of the nation's students in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations in English language and mathematics....
'Gov't should have contacted student in GSAT leak'
A legal consultant in the education ministry has conceded that the government office had erred in its decision not to grant a student a scholarship on the basis of fears she had benefited from a test paper leak. "We had made concessions that we should...
BRIEFS - Humanitarian Award for Ho Lung, Gore
Father Richard Ho Lung and businessman Phillip Gore will this year receive the International Humanitarian Award from American Friends of Jamaica (AFJ), a non-profit charity organisation. "At the core of our...
Half-mil cut for wrong surgery
The Government is to pay $500,000 in damages to a man who had surgery performed on the wrong side of his body at the Spanish Town Hospital in April 1998. Laxlie Greenland, 65, mason and farmer, of Pembroke Hall, St Mary, testified in the Supreme Court...
St Thomas teen on gun, ammo charges
A 16-year-old St Thomas boy has been charged with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition Tuesday following the seizure of an illegal gun at a school in Yallahs.Reports are that about 12:30 p.m., a police operation was carried out in Yallahs ...
MPs to identify unregistered poor
MEMBERS OF Parliament (MPs) have been asked to help identify the almost 120,000 persons thought to be living below the poverty line who were outside Government's main social safety net.Labour and Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles charged members of the House of Representatives...
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