All abuzz about Scripps
Tomorrow, the Gleaner Children's Own Spelling Bee champion Sade Dunbar will start her quest to become the second Jamaican to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Sade, along with coach the Rev Glen Archer, corporate affairs and marketing manager of The Gleaner Company...
Most early childhood centres breaching law
The Government has allocated $200 million to assist early childhood institutions that are in danger of closure because they have breached public health and safety guidelines. The passage of the Early Childhood Act and Regulations (2005) established legal...
Schools in the red for utility payments
Some schools are struggling to pay utility bills because of a shortfall in fee subventions from the Ministry of Education, said Nadine Molloy, president of the Jamaica Association of Principals of Secondary Schools...
Five master keys to success (Pt 2)
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice."Last week, I pointed out that there were definite keys to success. Success is not a chance encounter. Rather, it is a process, a journey with visible mileposts. The five master keys...
THE GAY DEBATE - Golding is a bigot
THE EDITOR, Sir: I voted for the first time in 2007, and it was for the Jamaica Labour Party and, by extension, Bruce Golding. After 18 years of mismanagement and bad governance, social mayhem and bloodletting, I thought him to be a man...
Shock, disbelief at Fitz-Henley murder
Sharon Hay-Webster, member of Parliament for South Central St Catherine, is still trying to come to grips with the brutal slaying of her uncle, Calvin Fitz-Henley, a retired tutor in secretarial studies. Thousands of secretaries benefited from the...
Tennis ace serves August Town youth
Having migrated to the United States in 1987, tennis champion-turned-coach Errol Campbell feels compelled to give back to his country and inspire youths.This passion was realised when the Errol Campbell Free Tennis Clinic, which targets children living in August Town...
Across the nation
Professor calls for new heritage calendar - FROME, WESTMORELAND: Chairman of the Jamaica National Bicentenary Committee, Professor Verene Shepherd, has called for an expansion of the national heritage calendar to embrace critical moments in the country's...
New Cabinet-approved boards
Cabinet has approved new boards for three public entities. They are the Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT), the Museums of History and Enthnography and the Northeast Regional Health Authority. The JNHT's new Board of Trustees, and the Board of Directors for the Museums...
Food facility for 'St Bess'
J.C. HUTCHINSON, state minister in the Ministry of Agriculture, has promised a value-added production facility in his North West St Elizabeth constituency, to help Jamaica in its food security quest. In his contribution to the Sectoral Debate in Parliament last Thursday...
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