Gleaner Editors' Forum - CXC review - Educators suggest that schools make better use of syllabus
WITH THE performance of Jamaican students in English language and mathematics in the 2004 Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) exams well below the regional average, several educators suggested yesterday that schools needed to adapt the...
Jamaica commits to UN policy
FOREIGN AFFAIRS and Trade Minister K.D. Knight says Jamaica has made significant progress in implementing aspects of an agreement reached at the 1994 United Nation's Population Fund's (UNFPA), international conference on population and...
Cruise boom
WITH THE new cruise shipping season merely weeks away, tourism interests say Jamaica should brace itself for a record number of arrivals. "It could be a real banner year," notes Sanju Chatani, owner of the Taj Mahal Plaza one of Ocho Rios'...
UWI heads hold fast to Oct 15 deadline
DESPITE TWO days of protests by students, including some who are facing de-registration, the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus, said yesterday that it was sticking to the October 15 deadline, by which students should pay...
More jobs for inner-city residents
THE WRATH of previously disgruntled inner-city residents and their Members of Parliament (MP), who were dissatisfied with the minimal employment opportunities ...
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