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The Porus Infant School in Manchester honoured 14 of its stalwarts, for contributing to the institution's development at an appreciation function, held at the Ridgemount United Church in Mandeville on May 27. Those honoured included former Board Chairman, Rose Thomas, and current Vice Chairman, Joseph Thompson; teachers, Deb Geri Chambers, Beverly Lambert, Maurine Brooks, and Julian McGregor-Williams; ancillary staff, Velma...

Chief of Defence Staff of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), Major General Stewart Saunders, has urged graduates of the Caribbean Junior Command and Staff Course, to recognise the immense value of working together in partnership. "The course has equipped you with the requisite knowledge to enable you to improve the systems and procedures of your present organisations, to understand the...

In an effort to ensure that Jamaica's tertiary institutions produce graduates of varying disciplines, which is critical to national development, the Student Loan Bureau (SLB) has devised various methods to steer potential graduates into selected areas of 'preferential' study. "We know that for any country, or for any company, to develop, it has to have areas that are linked to...

The police are investigating the disappearance of the body of a newborn baby - one of a set of twin - from the Mandeville Regional Hospital in Manchester. The baby's body was discovered missing from the facility's morgue by hospital administrators when the parents turned up to collect the baby's body, after being asked to do so by hospital officials....

A team of United States army officers recently completed renovations to the Bull Bay All Age School in Western St. Thomas, the constituency of Energy and Mining Minister James Robertson. The team paved the school walkway, fixed the water system in the bathrooms, installed new toilets and painted sections of the school. They also refurbished the kitchen and installed a...

The Optimist Club of Mandeville will tomorrow (May 30) stage a gospel concert at the Manchester High School, to raise funds to carry out infrastructural improvement at the Top Hill All-Age School in the parish. President of the Club, Kaysi-Ann Spence, informed that the funds raised will be used to rehabilitate the bathrooms, improve water storage, conduct roof repairs, and...

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers of Health and Education will be involved in two meetings in Montego Bay, Jamaica next week. First they will convene the Eighteenth Meeting of the CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) and then will meet with their Latin American counterparts in preparation for a meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)....

Alison and Michael Brooks expressed joy as their daughter, Ashleigh, was named winner of the inaugural Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Child Month Essay Competition, yesterday (May 27), at the JIS Television studio, Arnold Road, Kingston. Their reactions mirrored pride, relief and happiness that, Ashleigh, a grade three student of Mona Preparatory School made it from among the six finalists, which...

Principal of the Half-Way-Tree Primary School in Kingston, Catherine Malcolm, is appealing to schools and other education stakeholders to begin preparing students for the Grade 4 Literacy Test from as early as Grade 1. "Don't wait to prepare for Grade 4. I don't agree with that and we don't need the Ministry of Education to tell us that we had...

Jamaicans are being urged not to buckle under current economic and social pressures, but rather to unite and find creative ways, which can benefit themselves and their communities. This encouragement came from Principal of the Hydel Group of Schools, Senator Hyacinth Bennett, who gave the main address at a special function to honour five retired teachers of the Black River...

Following on the heels of the very successful first Town Hall meeting in Mandeville Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding and his team will continue to take the government's message across the island. The next stop will be at the HEART Academy auditorium in Portmore, on Tuesday, May 26 starting at 7:00 p.m. Supporting Prime Minister Golding on the town...

Mrs. Lorna Golding, wife of Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding, has everything to smile about this Labour Day. Her major Child Month project - the staging of two concerts billed as "An Evening of the Classics" played to a fair sized audience at the Half-Moon Hotel in Montego Bay and a full-house at the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston. The...