Kerr-Jarrett lambasts education system
WESTERN BUREAU: MARK KERR-JARRETT, immediate past president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce, has blamed the "dilapidated condition of our education system" as one of the major contributors to the nation's high rate of HIV/AIDS.
CABINET DOCUMENTS: THE BLUE LAGOON, 1960 - Norman Manley fought to preserve the 'Blue Hole'
SAYING HE had a duty to ensure that the Blue Lagoon - also known as Blue Hole - San San, Portland remained a national treasure, former premier, the late Norman Manley, fought hard to prevent the attraction from becoming overly commercialised.
'Disunity could hurt Caribbean Court'
OCHO RIOS: COURT OF Appeal judge Justice Seymour Panton has joined the debate over the establishment of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ)...
Call for renewed commitment to UN principles
GILLIAN LINDSAY-NANTON, the United Nations' Resident Co-ordinator, has made a call for the renewed commitment to promoting the ideals upon which the United Nations charter was built 58 years ago.
'Public health time bomb' to be assessed by St James PC
WESTERN BUREAU: A MAJOR assessment is to be done by the St. James Parish Council on the full extent of the sanitation needs of the Old Shoe Market in Montego Bay, which has been labelled a public health time bomb by the health department.
PM wants complete exoneration of Garvey
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson is reiterating his support for pending legislation in the United States, that would clear the name of Jamaican National Hero, Marcus Garvey.
History with a TWIST
THE 16TH century Western Church Reformation was about division but the 21st Church Reformation seems to be about the opposite reconciliation. That observation seems to sum up developments at last week's Reformation forum in Kingston.
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