'Thank God for my daughter!' - Shelly-Ann's mother still high on gold
Sunday morning, Shelly-Ann Fraser fulfilled a dream her mother and two of her aunts had always dreamt when she took home Jamaica's first gold medal in the women's 100-metres final at an Olympic Games. Fraser won the race in a fast 10.78 seconds ahead of compatriots ...
A monument to the moment - Gov't commissions sculpture to honour Olympians
One good deed deserves another, so the saying goes. So, in recognition of the magnificent performance of the Jamaican athletes at the Beijing Olympics, the Government will move to inscribe the names of the team members on a monument that is to be mounted in Independence Park...
JTA votes on salaries
Ocho Rios, St Ann: Delegates attending the 44th annual conference of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) are today expected to vote on the way forward as it relates to salary and fringe benefits for the island's more than 22,000 public-sector teachers...
Principals want end to fund-raisers
The Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) is today move a resolution advising its members not to be involved in fund-raising activities to assist in financing the operation of schools. Michael Stewart, president of the Association of Principals and Vice-Principals...
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