Burning rage - Elderly women attacked - Angry hubby on the run
WALDERSTON, Manchester: UP TO late last night, two elderly women remained hospitalised in critical condition after one was chopped several times and the house in which they lived set on fire in Brokery district near Christiana, Manchester....
Five more days of school
THE GOVERNMENT plans to increase by five, the number of days students spend in school each year, according to Senator Noel Monteith, State Minister in the Ministry of Education and Youth. "We are proposing an increase of five days in the revision of the Education Code...
A real overcomer - 12-y-o beats ovarian cancer and looks forward to high school
When some 51,000 of her peers were busy preparing for their Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) in March, Annika Whyte, a 12-year-old student at Lawrence Tavern Primary School, St. Andrew, was battling with yolk sac cancer - a rare type of ovarian cancer.
Kimone's dream has come true
Kimone Young is another GSAT success story for the Jessie Ripoll Primary School.Last week, she was overjoyed when she learnt that she would be attending Immaculate Conception High come September."Since I was in grade four, I always wanted to go to Immaculate...
'I was so relieved, I cried'
When Christon Matthews of Jessie Ripoll Primary School in Kingston found out that he was placed at Wolmer's High School for Boys, he was ecstatic. "I had tears of joy, because I was nervous, and when I heard, I was just relieved, so I just cried," the 12-year-old said grinning.
Clarendon police defend tear-gassing of inmates
Head of the Clarendon Police Division, Superintendent Radcliffe Lewis, is backing the constable who tear-gassed jailed inmates on Friday.According to Superintendent Lewis, the policeman discharged his canister and ran from the cell after he was attacked...
Expect rain pain again
The Meteorological Service says there could be more moderate to heavy showers and thunderstorms, especially over central and eastern parishes today. According to the Met Service, a surface to upper-level trough and a tropical wave are currently moving...
Battery of 12 lawyers for Grenada 13
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC): Well-known Trinidadian attorney-at-law Keith Scotland will be among a dozen lawyers expected to speak on behalf of Bernard Coard and 12 other accused prisoners who will be resentenced for the killing of former Prime Minister Maurice Bishop...
Episcopals ordain first ever Third-World woman bishop
HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters):The Episcopal Church broke new ground in Cuba yesterday by ordaining its first woman bishop in the developing world at a ceremony that mixed incense with rhythmic Caribbean music. The Rev. Nerva Cot said she will bring a feminine touch to the leadership...
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