Schoolers in crisis
OPPOSITION LEADER Edward Seaga is warning that a crisis is looming for students from poor households attending school as parents will not be able to afford the 27 per cent jump in back to school costs come September.
Family escapes tenement blaze
DELROY RHOOMS, his common-law wife and three children cheated death yesterday afternoon, when they narrowly escaped a fire which partially razed two tenement yards on Bryden Street, East Kingston.
Publisher denying 'unfair' book hike
LOCALLY-BASED PUBLISHING house, Carlong Publishers (Caribbean) Limited, has damned the Consumer Affairs Commission's (CAC) suggestion that book merchants are heaping huge profit mark-ups on consumers prior to the new school year.
Teachers' salaries devouring 95% of education budget
EDUCATION MINISTER, Maxine Henry-Wilson, has said her Ministry is "almost at a danger point" as, from all accounts, 95 per cent of its $23 billion budget is being spent on wages and salaries.
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