Reading project improving student literacy
A special reading programme in five South St. Andrew primary and all-age schools is recording outstanding improvements in literacy levels following the completion of the first year of a two-year remedial programme dubbed a Ray of Hope. Test results of...
One dead, mob attack on Spaldings Police Station
After a woman was killed and a man's throat was slashed in Spaldings, Clarendon, yesterday, hundreds of residents from the area vented their anger at the police in that town. In a bid to take the law into their own hands, they demanded the release of the
Tearful farewell for slain cop
Tears flowed freely and uncon-trollably yesterday, as Constable Basil Black, formerly of the Hunts Bay Police Station in South St. Andrew, was given an emotional farewell.Members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), relatives and ...
Night club operator sentenced to 12 years
A 51-year-old night club operator who stabbed and killed a patron during a dispute over a chair which broke when the patron and his girlfriend sat on it, has been sentenced by the Court of Appeal to 12 years imprisonment at hard labour.Aston ...
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