'Brain drain' needs to be tackled-- Hylton

JAMAICA CONTINUES to be hurt by recruitment programmes which target professional especially teachers and nurses, Foreign Trade Minister, Anthony Hylton, said yesterday.

Journalists oppose gov't media code
CARIBBEAN JOURNALISTS are opposing moves by the Government of Grenada to draft a media policy for that country which will incorporate a code of ethics. At the Fourth Annual Caribbean Media Conference in Grenada last week, participants said that they...

Landslide union victory
THE UNIVERSITY and Allied Workers Union (UAWU) has trounced competing unions -- the National Workers Union (NWU) and United Union of Jamaica (UUJ) -- by a landslide to become the first to represent Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) non-supervisory...

Teacher, counsellor and mentor

Sister Mary Magdalen Naudi, R.S.M. AFTER SEVERAL months of illness, Sister Mary Magdalen entered into eternal life on the morning of May 23, 2001. A native of the Mediterranean island of Malta, this vibrant, happy and energetic young woman, aged...