US boots Jamaican teachers
NEARLY 200 Caribbean teachers - mostly Jamaicans and Guyanese - have been given termination letters by the New York Board of Education, as they do not have the required new H-1B visa.
Massive bribery of delegates, says Minott
DR. DENNIS MINOTT, the Jamaica Labour Party's caretaker candidate for East Portland, is sticking to his claim that massive bribery took place among delegates in that constituency for the party's 60th annual conference last November.
New ranking for secondary schools
UNIVERSITY OF Technology (UTech) lecturer, Howard Campbell, insists that only 10 of the 148 schools that were ranked by Dr. Dennis Minott in his report on the performance of Jamaican high school students in the 2003 CXC were placed correctly.
Who owns the roads?
Rift over Corporate Area thoroughfare widens
THE WAR of words between the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) and the National Works Agency (NWA) is heating up rapidly, with Mayor of Kingston Desmond McKenzie dismissing the NWA's claim to ownership of roads...
Some teachers won't get jobs back
TEACHERS WHO had abandoned their duties here to accept jobs in New York could be restricted from re-entering the public education system, Senator Noel Monteith, a State Minister in the Ministry of Education Youth and Culture, said...
They don't have the guts to do it - Chuck
JUSTICE MINISTER A. J. Nicholson says Government intends to honour a pre-election promise and resume hanging, but not until they and the Opposition find common ground concerning amendments to the Constitution.
Charlene defends James' honour...again
CHARLENE ROBERTSON is worried that the findings of investigations into the vote-buying scandal, which first surfaced during the election of Deputy Leaders of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) last November, will neither be fair or unbiased.
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