EDITORS' FORUM - 'Give agriculture colleges bigger cut of tax pie'
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of the Jamaica 4-H Clubs, Lenworth Fulton, is proposing that the Government channel resources from taxes received by the HEART Trust/NTA to support financially-strapped educational institutions...

Overseas aid will lift sector - Johnson
OPPOSITION SPOKESMAN on Agriculture, Senator Anthony Johnson, has recommended that the Government use overseas financial assistance and local scientists to set the agricultural sector on the path to growth.

School watchdog tackles performance September
THE PERFORMANCE of schools is expected to come under greater scrutiny in the next school year with the establishment of an Education Inspection Agency. Education Minister, Maxine Henry-Wilson, said on Wednesday...

Pilots group welcomes new retirement age
WESTERN BUREAU: THE CARIBBEAN Airline Pilots' Association (CALPA) has welcomed the United Kingdom-based International Civil Aviation Authority's (ICAA) recent approval of a new retirement age for airline pilots.

NY group lauds local family planning agency
THE NATION'S family planning agency, FAMPLAN Jamaica, has been lauded by its New York affiliate, Planned Parenthood of Nassau County (PPNC), for its work in promoting reproductive health services at the community level.

Opposition wants answers on Harmony Cove funding
THE OPPOSITION wants the Portia Simpson Miller-led administration to tell the country how it expended $1 billion on the proposed Harmony Cove development project in Trelawny, which at present has no infrastructure in place.

CHURCH AND CHILD SEX ABUSE: Stricter penalties for sex offenders
The reported sexual molestation and assault of a schoolgirl by a group of teenage boys while they were being taken from school in a van driven by a church deacon, and the church's response to the reports of the incident...