Farm work danger - Canadian lobby group wants enquiry into death of Jamaican
JUSTICE FOR Migrant Workers (J4MW), a Canadian lobby group, will tomorrow make an official appeal for a Coroner's Inquest into the 2002 death of a Jamaican farm worker in Branford, Ontario in Canada.
Task force plan to tackle illiteracy gets more support
LOCAL EDUCATORS say the intervention strategy recommended by the Education Task Force to address illiteracy in Jamaican schools will have their support.
JLP sees loopholes in education report
SENATOR ANTHONY Johnson, Opposition spokesman on education, said he has concerns about some of the recommendations which were made by the 14-member task force on education's report, arguing that they are "bureaucratic" and a waste of.
Clunie weighs options
FOLLOWING HIS announced early retirement from the police force, former Deputy Commissioner Owen Clunie said he has received offers but will use the next few months to reflect and critically review all options.
No need to fear job losses
THE DIRECTOR of the International Labour Organisation's (ILO) Caribbean office says the lack of preparedness of some labour market stakeholders in the region for the emerging CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) is 'very worrying'.
Trelawny cops on full alert
WESTERN BUREAU:TRELAWNY police are putting special measures in place in the town of Falmouth - the parish's premier shopping centre - in an effort to reduce the twin scourges of criminality and traffic congestion in the lead-up to Christmas.
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