Fix GSAT soon! - Education minister says GSAT causes two-Jamaica syndrome
Education Minister Andrew Holness yesterday dubbed the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) a meritocracy, which has not been a good placement mechanism for the island's children, and has hinted at a major change in the examination...
Former cop tells all in murder case
A former cop-turned-state witness has claimed that a policeman, implicated in the abduction of two men from a plaza on the Washington Boulevard five years ago, admitted to shooting one of the victims. Two of the three policemen...
Restructure expenses, says career banker
FOR THE last several months, Jamaica has been caught in the financial tsunami that has claimed whole industries, sent thousands on the unemployment line and forced people everywhere to pinch pennies. Households have cut the supermarket and utility bills...
Little helpers have big impact
"I see people every day need a lot of things, like mattress, pillow, food - whole heap a things," he said without a tinge of humour in his voice. "But I am just a child, me cyaah help dem. Mi wish me cudda help dem. Night and day mi seh, mi wish dat mi cudda help dem!
42 years and still in love - Teacher says she would do it all again
Sybil Lawrence, a graceful and soft-spoken woman, seems unaffected by suggestions that she is in any way extraordinary. This humility does no justice to her 42 years of service in education, most of which were at the Denham Town High School ...
Attorney takes home Silver Pen
Garfield Whyte, an attorney-at-law since 2000, was recently honoured with The Gleaner's Silver Pen award, given for the best letter published by the paper that month. Whyte contributed two Letters of the Day in April, and so was not surprised...
PSOJ angry over crime bill delays
THE LONG delay by Parliament to debate and pass the six anti-crime bills now before the House of Representatives has irritated the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ). The group has called on parliamentarians to immediately approve...
Agreement reached on time limit for defamation claims
THE COMMITTEE examining a report on the review of Jamaica's defamation laws has proposed a two-year limitation period for the filing of claims for defamation.Under the current defamation laws in Jamaica, a person has up to six years to file a lawsuit...
Major guns-for-drugs player nabbed at sea
A team of Kingfish operatives and officials from the United Nations Security Forces have nabbed a major player in the drugs-for-guns trade between Jamaica and Haiti.Forty-two-year-old Clifford Mills of Old Harbour in St Catherine was detained...
Maia is the winner
Wonder if she's caught her breath yet?