GSAT breach - Ministry blacklists examiner for meddling during test
After investigating reports of irregularities during the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT), the education ministry has blacklisted a veteran presiding examiner for interfering with the proceedings and misleading students during the communication task...
- Bar shows steely resistance to judge's appointment - sources
- Tufton plants seed of hope in bauxite's void
- Burmese dads in solidarity with 'mother of the nation'
- Missing-baby probe to begin
- School violence on front burner
- A house divided - Iran protests, strife split clerics
- Jamaica Celebrates - Building Our Nation, Our Family, Our Home
- Official titles and styles - The governor general and spouse
In Ricardo Smith's he(art) - inner-city artist needs break
Two months away from attaining legal adulthood, Ricardo Smith is burdened and, having no one to turn to, he recently visited The Gleaner to tell His Story. Central to his problem is his inability to help himself, his mother and a younger brother...
- Lack of resources crippling non-traditional high schools
- Indies Pharma makes history
- Adventist Church to host education banquet
- Meeting the Little Man
- My son is not retaining information
MoneyMasters to host investment and economic forum
In order to outline emerging opportunities in the short to medium term, MoneyMasters Ltd will tomorrow facilitate an in-depth look at opportunities available within, and arising from the global recession. The forum, to be held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel...
Thomas sets sights on hurdles crown
WHEN the names of athletes are released this week for the men's 100 metres at the National Championships, the list will not include a familar entrant. Former Calabar High sprinter, Dwight 'Bigga' Thomas, who has represented the country at the senior level since 1999...
- Afridi blast lifts Pakistan to Twenty20 World Cup title
- St Ann snatch Senior Cup from JDF
- England women blow away Kiwis in T20 final
- US squeeze into semis
- Like Federer, Venus seeks sixth Wimbledon title
- Cummings double seals win for Rapids
- Hamilton continues to struggle
- Santos net late equaliser against Reno
- U-15 league bowls off today
- Brazil team robbed
EDITORIAL - Needed: conversation on public-policy formulation
Two significant, apparently separate, but connected reports appeared on the front page of this newspaper on Friday. The most obviously eye-catching of these was about the estimated 4,000 people who turned up at the York Park Fire Station on Thursday...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Deeper analysis of GSAT placement required
The Editor, Sir: An article in The Gleaner on June 11, titled 'More students head to schools of their choice', made reference to a table with the national averages for the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT). It would seem that the 2009 aggregate percentage...
- Wrong labelling
- Stop whining and go teach
- Usain Bolt's annoying antics
- The sadness of Father's Day
- Don't blame Portia
- PNP not ready
- More info on IMF needed
- God's blessings not limited to Judaism, Christianity
Why Do Jamaicans Run So Fast?
With a 'little feeling' that something big was going to happen at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China, Spanish music producer Fernando Garcia-Guereta shifted gears from the studio and on to the track with his debut documentary Why Do Jamaicans Run So Fast?...
Master mixer McHugh !
Patrice McHugh is the first Jamaican to obtain a master's degree in mixology. She scored second highest in a class of 85 students from the United States of America. McHugh is the managing director of the popular Bars to Go and her husband operates the food side...
- Pat Wright beats cancer three times
- Singular Subjects - Investigate them!
- KELLY'S WORLD - Another no contest!
- LAWS OF EVE - Fathers' changing roles
- HEALTH AND FITNESS - Food for the memory
- The future is bright
- When soulmates wed
- 'Go Red for Women' campaign
- FE-MAIL TIES - The art of luxurious living
- Jamaican gets prestigious internship
- Try hard wax
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