'Get ready - JEF official urges workers to prepare for challenges of regional body for CSME'
JACQUELINE COKE-LLOYD, executive director of the Jamaica Employers' Federation (JEF), has called on Jamaicans to adequately equip themselves to deal with what she said are the several challenges which will arise when the CARICOM Single...
School accepts HIV student
WESTERN BUREAU: ONE OF two HIV-positive boys who had been turned away from a private school in St. Ann, will start in September, HIV advocates say.
Cash crunch stalls 'Ivan' relief effort
THE GOVERNMENT will not provide the $332 million in relief funds promised to more than 64,000 victims of Hurricane Ivan from its current budget, the Ministry of Labour and Social Security disclosed on Tuesday.
'Better governance needed in school'
BLACK RIVER, St. Elizabeth: NOEL DACOSTA, President of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) has said that he believes that one area of weakness that contributes to the problem in our education system, is the governance of our schools.
UNICEF identifies threats to Jamaica's children
HIV/AIDS, VIOLENCE and poverty are the three ills identified by UNICEF as robbing Jamaican children of their childhood. Bertrand Bainvel, a representative of UNICEF, made the disclosure yesterday while giving an overview of the situation of children in..
Man held in Sp Town car stealing ring
HEAD OF the St. Catherine North Criminal Investigation Bureau, Acting Deputy Superinten-dent Meveral Smith and his team of detectives have put a dent on a multimillion-dollar car stealing ring, following the arrest of a 24-year-old man in the Kitson Town.
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