The chief executive officer of the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) has stared down a rebellion and rejected as overblown the noisy resistance to draft legislation governing the licensing of teachers. Dr Winsome Gordon, who broke her silence in a...

When Kimone Rowe received a call about her five-year-old, Tray Graham, in July, the last thing she had expected to hear was that her beloved son had been murdered. The boy, who is believed to have been beaten to death, allegedly by his father,...

When an aunt of 16-year-old Narando Boothe heard gunshots ring out around 10:30 p.m. on Water Lane, Kingston, on Wednesday, she never thought the boy could have been the target of the explosions. But that reality has sunk in as gloom hovers over...

There are now tears of joy for Nickeisha Singh Smith, whose pleas for a transfer of her 12-year-old son to nearby Vere Technical High have finally been answered. The 32-year-old mother’s dilemma, published in Monday’s Gleaner, bared the...

The family of Garvin Yapp, the Jamaican farmworker who was fatally injured while operating tobacco-harvesting equipment in Ontario, Canada, may be entitled to compensation. Yapp was employed under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers’ Programme (.....

Regional staff of the Ministry of Education have committed to bolster support for Clarendon’s teachers and administrators with a suite of services geared at training and other assistance. Chief among those is the reinforcement of specialised...

Despite battling termite infestation and space challenges, some Clarendon schools are pushing through to have a smooth start to the 2022-2023 academic year, with many telling The Gleaner that they are almost there with preparation. O’Neil Lewin,.....

With the Sixth Form Pathways Programme becoming mandatory in a matter of days for thousands of former 11th-graders, schools are scrambling to retrofit spaces to accommodate larger populations. That is already running administrations millions of...

While a migration crisis has been causing anxiety over attrition numbers ahead of the new school year, schools like Marcus Garvey Technical have been struggling to find educators, especially in the industrial arts, in recent years. Kirk Smith, head....

Prime Minister Andrew Holness is lamenting the state of the Washington Boulevard corridor, noting that the area is in need of attention, not only to address traffic concerns, but to improve the look of the entrance to the metropolis. “ ... As you....

For 62-year-old Rachael Smith, living along the gully bank in the Majesty Gardens neighbourhood of St Andrew was particularly challenging. Smith, who grew up in the gritty community, lamented that her worst memories occurred during the hurricane...

Three years after a brand-new elevator was installed at the Princess Margaret Hospital in St Thomas, orderlies are now strenuously carrying patients up flights of stairs again as the lift is out of service. The workers had been breathing a sigh of.....

Teacher migration is not expected to severely impact the new academic year at Marcus Garvey Technical High School in St Ann as Principal Anniona Jones says only three teachers have resigned their posts in recent times. “Although we do dread the.....

The St Catherine North police are probing if the discovery of charred remains of a man found Tuesday in an unfinished building was linked to a family squabble over land in Above Rocks. The police theorise the dead man, Richard ‘Dragon’ Hoyes, 5...

Writing on the wall for bursar-paid salaries Teachers now operating in bursar-paid schools will soon receive direct disbursement from the Ministry of Education under a centralised system that will be phased in. That announcement was made by...

The Public Procurement Commission (PPC) has become the 24th government entity to become ISO 9001:2015 certified. The International Standards Organisation (ISO) is an independent, non-governmental organisation with a membership of 167 national...

WESTERN BUREAU: Education Minister Fayval Williams says the proposed licensing regime for teachers under the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) bill is not different from what obtains in many other countries to which Jamaican educators are migrating in....

Jamaican migrants rank among the top three groups of foreigners who use the United States military to gain citizenship, data from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) indicate. Between 2017 and 2021, some 2,360 Jamaicans.....

An eight-year-old child who ran frantically from his home and alerted relatives that his mother was killed on Monday reportedly recounted how the suspect lifted him up after the attack and glared at him before leaving. The child, the youngest of......

Jamaicans with disabilities have lamented the National Housing Trust’s (NHT) removal of interest-rate reductions, a move they deem unreasonable. But Prime Minister Andrew Holness said the Trust is not trying to take away money from the poor but i...