Cops in the classroom Police initiate truancy programme
IN A bid to curb truancy and violence in schools, the police will next week implement a new community relations programme that will see members of the force being placed in certain schools to use persuasion...
Double murder prompts shut-down threat in Sp Town
Spanish Town: MEMBERS OF the St. Catherine Chamber of Commerce and Industry last night threatened to shut down Spanish Town by next Thursday, September 9, if steps are not taken to curb the high crime rate, particularly murder, plaguing the town.
Structured recruitment for teachers
COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES represented by their education ministers at a conference in Edinburgh, Scotland have agreed on a structured system of recruitment of teachers from their territories.
Officials tour inner-city housing sites
AN ENTOURAGE including National Housing Trust (NHT) executives, political representatives and members of the press braved the searing heat yesterday to tour three sites that are part of the government-sponsored Inner-City Housing Project.
Tools for Development, Ledermode, sign MoU
A MEMORANDUM of Understanding (MoU) was signed yesterday between Ledermode Limited and Tools for Development Jamaica Ltd., (TDJ) in which Ledermode will provide training for beneficiaries of the TDJ project.
UWI students in loan quandary
WITH SCHOOL set to begin on Monday, nearly 3,000 students at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona campus, are in panic mode as they have been unable to register for the new academic year.
Air J cancels flights
AIR JAMAICA yesterday announced the cancellation of all scheduled flights into and out of Miami and Fort Lauderdale today and tomorrow, as a result of various airport closures because of the threat posed by Hurricane Frances, a Category Four storm.
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