6 Things You Need To Know Today: April 22, 2013
‘White Lady’ Is Back – Cops Say Cocaine Trade Resurfacing In Jamaica. Years after they smashed an international drug ring operating in Montego Bay, St James, with help from nationals of one South...
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At Long Last – Public Defender Delivers Interim Tivoli Report, Recommends Enquiry. An interim report into what Public Defender Earl Witter describes as a “siege” of Tivoli Gardens during a state of...
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Cops Target Assets – Investigators Eye $300m In High-End Properties Thought To Be Proceeds Of Cocaine Trade. Armed with legislation under the Proceeds of Crime Act, plus intelligence provided by their...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – May 30, 2013
Gov’t Looks To Limit OCG’s Powers. The Portia Simpson Miller-led Cabinet is to consider a submission, which is aimed at amending the Contractor General Act to prevent the Office of the Contractor...
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JTA Catfight – Dixon Hisses, Claws At Teachers’ Union After Scratched From Ballot. Embattled former president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), Doran Dixon, is now digging in for a fight with...
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AJ, Know Your Role – Private Sector Fires Back At Nicholson After ‘Trade Bickering’ Comments. Calls from Foreign Trade Minister A.J. Nicholson for the parliamentary Opposition and other critics to end...
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Freeness – No-User-Fee Policy Worsening Poor Service – CaPRI Study. The quality of service in Jamaica’s public hospitals has got worse since the no-user-fee policy was introduced five years ago. It is...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – June 18, 2013
Veronica Declared – Embattled Athlete Made Note Of Product She Used Ahead Of Test. The Gleaner understands that Jamaican sprinting star Veronica Campbell-Brown had in fact declared using a product...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – June 25, 2013
Tivoli Boycott – JLP Labels Proposed Commission Of Enquiry A Waste Of Time. Declaring the Tivoli Gardens Commission of Enquiry a waste of time and claiming its terms of reference have been designed by...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – June 28, 2013
Uncle Sam To Get Rough – US Seeks To Halt Filing For Siblings. The much-sought-after United States (US) Green Card, the path to American citizenship for thousands of Jamaicans, could become much more...
View ArticleChart of the Week: 3% for the Infants
For this week’s Chart of the Week we have a look at the allocations within the Ministry of Education Budget. diGgers take note of those first three short stumps in the left hand corner of the chart, if...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – July 9, 2013
Increase Takes Toll On Portmore Traffic. On the first weekday since the new rates took effect, the Portmore toll road yesterday saw a drastic decrease in its usual traffic… Read more at...
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Teachers’ Job Fair Gets Low Grade On Day One. Several teachers left the first day of the Ministry of Education’s two-day job fair in utter despair yesterday. Hundreds of unemployed teachers and...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – August 15, 2013
Port Skills Exodus – Industries Buckle As Technicians, Truckers Flee To Canada. As Jamaica continues to haemorrhage manpower to the skilled-worker programme in Canada, there are lingering concerns that...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – August 19, 2013
13% Of CSEC Students Pass Math Since 2009 – Report. Statistics from the Ministry of Education have revealed the low number of students actually sitting the two core subjects, mathematics and English,...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – August 26, 2013
Ja, China Talk Visa Waivers. Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has said discussions are taking place between the governments of Jamaica and China to deal with the issue of visa waivers… Read more at...
View Article5 Facts – Parents Month
November is Parents Month, which has been observed annually since 2000. This Fact Friday, we share some information about the history of Parents Month and it’s objectives, along with useful parenting...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – November 4, 2013
Bad Timing: Seaga Told Holness Not To Call 2011 General Election – JLP Audit Group. The five-member committee which probed the reasons behind the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) loss in the2011 general...
View Article5 Tips – Parenting A Child With Special Needs
Every parent thinks his/her child is the most special little person they have ever met, but what if your child is ‘different’? What if your child is not developing at the pace you think s/he should be?...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – November 14, 2013
Push For Reforms – IMF Wants Speedy Policy Changes To Drive Growth As Ja Passes Second Test. A mission which conducted the second review under the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme with...
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