Education $5b pie to be budgeted
OCHO RIOS, St. Ann: THE MINISTRY of Education has been given the mandate to prepare a budget to determine how the $5 billion that has been allocated to assist with the transformation of the education system will be spent...
No fears Chavez visit will damage relations with US
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's visit to Jamaica today is good news for this country, despite Venezuela's worsening relations with the United States, says Don Mills, former Jamaican ambassador to the United Nations.
Mother of girl slain in UK faces deportation again
THE MOTHER of Toni-Ann Byfield, the seven-year-old Jamaican slain in the United Kingdom (U.K.) in 2003, has reportedly lost her asylum claim and is once again facing the possibility of deportation.
IDEAS BY PROFESSOR REX NETTLEFORD - Black in the flag
SOMEBODY OR other is concerned about a recent comment by a talk-show host about the meaning of the colour 'black' in Jamaica's flag. Back in 1996 when a national committee which I chaired was set up to examine the matter...
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