The vexed issue of teacher performance-based pay has encountered mixed comments from teachers, as well as persons outside the profession.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): In a quake-smashed city where hundreds of thousands go to sleep hungry and hurting in sordid street camps, eight-year-old Benoit Wodson has at least a bunk bed, food and friends to play with on a lawn beneath the mango trees.

SOCIOLOGIST Dr Claudette Crawford-Brown has identified a new phenomenon of 'Western Union' children who have replaced the concept of 'barrel'...

A 15-year-old Haitian girl of Jamaican parents is now with family members in Portland after being stranded for approximately three weeks on the earthquake ravaged streets of Port-au-Prince.