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UTech president wants end to TVET stigma

April 08, 2026 | News
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Kevin Brown, president of The University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech), has joined calls for an end to the stigma that currently exists against technical and vocational education and training (TVET) subjects in Jamaica’s education system, saying these subjects are key to becoming a technological leader on the global stage.
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Marathon runners to get own World Champs by 2030

World Athletics has outlined a landmark strategic road map for the future of distance running with the creation of a World Athletics Marathon Championships from 2030. The marathon will remain a discipline at the World Athletics Championships in 2027 and 2029, but from 2030, it will move to its own standalone championships. From 2031 onwards, the marathon — or any other road-running distance — will no longer form part of the World Athletics Championships.
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Jefferson-Wooden, Tebogo announced as Kids’ Athletics ambassadors

Sprint stars Melissa Jefferson-Wooden and Letsile Tebogo have been announced as ambassadors for the World Athletics Kids’ Athletics programme, with just one month to go to Kids’ Athletics Day on May 7. Both athletes will kick off the latest campaign at next month’s Debswana World Athletics Relays Gaborone 26, celebrating five years of Kids’ Athletics Day.
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Champions League advantages for Bayern, Arsenal

MADRID (AP): Harry Kane delivered for Bayern Munich on his return from injury, scoring a goal and helping set up another in his team’s 2-1 win at Real Madrid in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals yesterday. Kylian Mbappé scored Madrid’s goal after the visitors had taken a two-goal lead at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium. Veteran goalkeeper Manuel Neuer came up big for Bayern with several key saves to keep the German champions with the first-leg edge.

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Latoya Harris Ghartey (second left), executive director, National Education Trust (NET); Kennecy Davidson (fifth left), assistant chief education officer; Everette Riley (sixth left), senior education officer for Region 4; Roger Hinds (seventh left), of Ja
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NET targets power gaps as schools remain in the dark after Melissa

Dozens of schools still without electricity months after Hurricane Melissa are now being targeted for emergency support as the National Education Trust (NET) moves to plug critical gaps with the distribution of generators. The agency is compiling a list of institutions still in the dark and in urgent need of backup power following the storm late last year. Students at several schools in Hanover and Westmoreland – two of the parishes hardest hit – are among those most affected, according to NET Executive Director Latoya Harris-Ghartey.

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William Knibb Principal Linvern Wright.
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‘SHAMELESS’

WESTERN BUREAU: Linvern Wright, the principal of William Knibb High School, says governments over the years have failed to provide adequate sports facilities for athletes in western Jamaica, leaving them at a significant disadvantage to athletes from the Corporate Area, who are exposed to high-quality facilities. In a Facebook post last Thursday, during the staging of the annual ISSA Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championship (Champs), Wright described the strong political presence at the high-school showpiece as “shameless”.

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Shashamane to honour Bunny Wailer on his birthday

Reggae icon Bunny Wailer will be honoured by the Jamaican/Rastafarian community in Shashamane, Ethiopia, on his birthday, April 10, as part of the Rastafari Month celebrations in that country. This event honours the reggae legend, who died at age 73 on March 2, 2021, as well as Donald ‘Flippins’ Leach, a Jamaican stalwart of Ethiopia’s Rastafari repatriation movement who passed away in 2012. The event, a joint Bunny Wailer and Flippins tribute, will be held at the Lily and Vernon Leach Lounge in that city.

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Aircraft marshaller at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James, on Friday, February 24.
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GAP refinances US$95.5m loan backing Jamaica, Mexico airport operations

The Pacific Airport Group (GAP), the Mexican airport operator that manages two of Jamaica’s international airports, has refinanced a “US$95.5 million bank loan” that matured on March 19, rolling the debt into a new short-term facility with the same lender, BBVA México. “The new loan has a six-month term, with the option to extend for an additional six months, with interest payable monthly at a variable rate equivalent to Secured Overnight Financing Rate plus 40 basis points,” stated GAP in its filings.

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Entreprenuer Andrae Artwell enjoys a game of pickleball at Camp Porti.
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A weekend to reconnect, reset at Camp Porti

Camp Porti, the Easter weekend escape tucked into the lush landscape of Portland, Jamaica, has become synonymous with entertainment and wellness. Set against rolling hills, turquoise coves, and wild greenery, the experience invited guests to reconnect with a sense of well-being through a blend of adventure and relaxation. In its second staging, event organiser PJ Wright shared the vision behind Camp Porti’s wellness focus, noting, “Our roots in Jamaican wellness run deep, everything from our local teas and healing herbs to the way we move through this landscape.

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An estimated five per cent of students drop out before the end of grade nine, and up to eight per cent exit the system between grades nine and 10.
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Editorial | Tracking all students

The disclosure that 335 students remain missing from Jamaica’s classrooms five months after Hurricane Melissa highlights the urgency of establishing a robust system to monitor children’s school performance and track their whereabouts if, and when, they go missing.

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