Teachers to register - JTA backs mandatory requirement for members
Ocho Rios, St. Ann: Government is to begin the mandatory registration of teachers next month, ahead of the licensing of teaching professionals as recommended by a task force that was charged with coming up with proposals...
Government of Jamaica to launch 'time-out' programme for students
Ocho Rios, St. Ann: The Government is about to launch a programme, apparently similar to one first announced nearly five years ago, under which troubled and disruptive students will be "timed-out" from school...
Druggists turn to ganja
A SIGNIFICANT dent in the more lucrative cocaine trade has forced drug dealers to switch their focus to ganja.Information Officer at Operation Kingfish, Inspector Steve Brown, told The Gleaner yesterday...
Do not glorify dons - PM
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller yesterday urged journalists to stop giving publicity to dons and criminals who gloat about their ability to influence what appears in the media.
DPP office to be modernised
An improvement is expected in the efficiency of the justice system after the modernisation of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, which yesterday moved a step toward a multimillion dollar...
'Kingston still not ready for Cricket World Cup'
Mayor of Kingston, Desmond McKenzie, is again warning about the level of preparedness of Kingston for Cricket World Cup 2007. Mayor McKenzie, in an address to the Kiwanis Club of North St. Andrew at the Altamont Court Hotel...
Body of Trinidadian soldier to be sent home today
The body of the Trinidadian soldier, who died during a Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) battle-fitness test last week, is to be sent home today, according to JDF Chief of Staff, Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin.
Government of Jamaica moves to avert 'wage war'
Ocho Rios, St. Ann: Maxine Henry-Wilson, Minister of Education and Youth, says the Government is ready to go back to the negotiating table with teachers, to avert any disruption in the education system come September.
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