Heading for Iraq
NOT EVEN the haunting fear of undergoing a major surgery to remove a malignant tumour from a kidney can compare to the emotional turmoil one family in Queens, New York, is experiencing as their youngest child is whisked away to war. Norma Moodie-Waite...
Teachers still on the warpath
SEVERAL TEACHERS are now threatening to withdraw membership from the Jamaica Teachers Association (JTA) while younger teachers who are not yet members are expressing indifference to the group due to an increasing loss of favour among the teacher...
Friends, family hail Eric Abrahams
DOZENS OF family members, friends and well-wishers gathered at the St. Andrew Parish Church in Half-Way Tree yesterday to pay last respects to Eric Wordsworth Abrahams, magician, businessman, father and grandfather. There were no tears, only fond...
At last, education tax goes to schools
THE CONTROVERSIAL education tax, introduced 20 years ago, is finally to be used for the purpose it was intended. Stung by continuous criticisms that the tax is absorbed into the Consolidated Fund and not going towards educating the nation's children...
|
