'No GSAT hitch' Education Ministry says smooth sailing - Some students ecstatic about their placement
Screams of joy were heard across the island yesterday as some 51,000 children who sat the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) in March received their results.Charlene Ashley, director of communications...
Give me Paul! Portia boosts newcomer
PRIME MINISTER Portia Simpson Miller flew into North East Manchester Thursday afternoon to boost Paul Lyn's chances of ending Audley Shaw's 14-year reign as Member of Parliament for the constituency.
Reducing murders - JLP proposes a formula
Bolstered by a massive turnout of Labourites numbering in the thousands in Central Manchester Thursday night, Opposition Leader Bruce Golding placed the spotlight on the country's most pressing problem - crime and violence - and submitted two approaches to reducing Jamaica's alarming murder rate.
Co-accused in St James murder trial offered bail
Western Bureau: One of three employees of the Iberostar Hotel site in St. James, who were charged in connection with a gruesome attack on an exotic dancer at a nightclubin the parish, was granted bail when he made their first appearance before the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.
Preacher's wife gets three-year sentence for shooting husband
SELMER, Tennessee (AP): A woman who killed her preacher husband with a shotgun blast to the back as he lay in bed got a three-year prison sentence yesterday, but she may spend only a few months in a mental hospital.Mary Winkler, convicted of voluntary...
Trelawny to remember inspiring footballer
On May 27 last year, Jamaica lost a young, vibrant and gifted ambassador. Omroy Wilson, completing his first year of sixth form at Cornwall College, died from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident along the Hyde Hall main road in Trelawny, exactly two weeks after his eighteenth birthday.
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