CRY FOR DEANS WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Mark Malabver has reiterated his call for every school in the island to have a dean of discipline, expressing disappointment that both the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of...
GEOPOLITICAL TIGHTROPE Foreign Affairs Minister Senator Kamina Johnson Smith says Jamaica’s economic independence is dependent on its ability to balance competing global interests amid mounting geopolitical tensions. Johnson Smith was among a panel of foreign ministers...
‘I wasn’t preparing for a case’ Minister of Agriculture Floyd Green told the Home Circuit Court on Thursday that he was not anticipating giving evidence when he wrote an anonymous letter to the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) following the fatal 2013 police...
Law coming to regulate gated communities The Government is moving to introduce far-reaching legislation aimed at establishing a regulatory framework for shared residential and commercial property that are not governed under the Registration (Strata Titles) Act because they do not meet the...
Mindset shift biggest barrier to STEAM ed in Jamaica, says physicist Award-winning physicist and founder of The Blackett Lab Family, Dr Mark Richards, has identified a shift in mindset from theory to solutions as the biggest challenge facing Jamaica’s education system in fully embracing science, technology,...
Couple completes law school together They objected to doing it alone, and after years of briefs, late nights and legal arguments, the court of perseverance rendered a unanimous verdict: law school finished, the Jamaican Bar passed, together. For 25-year-old Jana-Lee Henry and her...
CALL FOR UNITY PANAMA CITY, Panama: Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness is calling for an end to the era of isolated markets, urging his regional counterparts to abandon fragmented national agendas in favour of a singular, united hemispheric goal. Holness, who was...
‘I would not conspire with INDECOM’ Agriculture Minister Floyd Green yesterday firmly rejected claims that he conspired with the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) “to convict” the six police personnel implicated in a 2013 fatal shooting. Green, a key prosecution...
Massive Caribbean American farewell for Ambassador Curtis Ward Hundreds of mourners defied sub-freezing temperatures, journeying from near and far to pack into Saint Andrew’s Apostolic Catholic Church in Silver Spring, Maryland, last Saturday to pay final tribute to Ambassador Curtis ‘Rustie’ Ward,...
US$100b plan to build Latin America, Caribbean into geopolitical power PANAMA CITY, Panama: The CAF-Development Bank of Latin America has unveiled a US$100-billion expansion road map aimed at reshaping Latin America and the Caribbean from a global “pantry” into a geopolitical powerhouse. CAF Executive President Sergio...