School blues Furniture shortage; water, sanitary problems
YESTERDAY'S START to the academic school year was generally incident-free except for one major protest outside a primary school in Kingston, another in St. Thomas, and other minor hiccups at some Corporate Area primary and junior high schools.
Spanish Twn prepares for traffic changes
SPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine: THE PREPARATION for the planned changes to traffic flow on the Spanish Town bypass, which is set to come on stream on September 8, is already in high gear.
'We will not bow to political pressure'
WESTERN BUREAU: MAYOR OF Montego Bay Councillor Noel Donaldson has accused, what he described as, 'senior People's National Party (PNP) political functionaries in the parish of St. James' of attempting to undermine the work of the Council.
Government to pull plug on some cable operators
THE GOVERNMENT will, on September 9, temporarily pull the plug on the services offered by some of the 12 subscriber television (STV) operators who were cited last week for suspected breaches of their copyright obligations.
Scores turned away at Ocho Rios Primary
OCHO RIOS, St. Ann: THE PERENNIAL PROBLEM of overcrowding at the Ocho Rios Primary School again surfaced at yesterday's opening of the new school year.
Furniture shortage at Clarendon schools
SPALDINGS, Clarendon: WHILE THE new academic year got off to a relatively smooth start yesterday in some Clarendon schools, checks by The Gleaner revealed that there was a shortage of furniture for teachers as well as students at some institutions.
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