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Just three years ago, Aberdeen High School was facing serious challenges. With low pass rates, dwindling enrolment as parents pulled their children out, and staff morale at an all-time low, the school was in crisis. Today, however, Aberdeen is...
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PARIS (AP): Legislators toppled France’s government in a confidence vote on Monday, a new crisis for Europe’s second-largest economy that obliges President Emmanuel Macron to search for a fourth prime minister in 12 months. Prime Minister François...
A Jamaican professor from Atlanta, Georgia, was the historical consultant for a documentary about Ghana’s first prime minister and president, Kwame Nkrumah, that had its world premiere last week at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)....
WESTERN BUREAU: Andrea Purkiss, who defeated two-term Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Member of Parliament Dave Brown to win the Hanover Eastern seat for the People’s National Party (PNP) last Wednesday, plans to make a name for herself in the political...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon has given candidates and political parties until September 17 to remove campaign advertisements and other paraphernalia relating to the general election from public spaces. He noted that the law...
WESTERN BUREAU: Reverend Michael Shim-Hue, the newly appointed chaplain of the Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College (SSTC) in St James, is urging educators to resist the political pressures threatening the integrity of the profession, says teaching is “...
Chief Justice Bryan Sykes has warned that avoidance of jury duty by the middle classes and those living in gated communities has placed a disproportionate burden onto the working poor. He was speaking on Sunday during a service to mark the start of...
With the new school year getting under way today, recently installed President of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) Mark Malabver is maintaining focus on the struggles being faced in the education system. In his first back-to-school message...
Already a senior citizen, Yvonne Rosemarie Shaw, more commonly referred to as Rosemarie Shaw, will perhaps be the oldest first-time parliamentarian when she is sworn in to represent the people of St Thomas Eastern. Following an often ill-tempered...
When most Jamaicans think of living in the United States, they often eye locations, such as New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida and Atlanta in Georgia, but rarely is there mention of midwest states such as Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, among...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): United States aircraft were involved in a low-pass flyover of Georgetown, the capital, as President Irfaan Ali was being sworn into office on Sunday for a second consecutive five-year term. The US Embassy in Guyana, in a...
With an estimated 500 or more children diagnosed with autism annually in Jamaica, tackling this neuro-developmental disability has proven to be quite challenging. Some of the challenges include overcoming the stigma associated with the disorder,...
CMC The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says officers from its Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Boston, Massachusetts, have deported a Jamaican criminal fugitive and alleged child rapist who had been...
Raw emotions surged through Portland Eastern, days after the general election, with People’s National Party (PNP) supporters and some independents declaring emphatically that the rejection of Ann-Marie Vaz was in their best interest. Attorney-at-...
A growing exclusion from activities of economic empowerment, the denial of beach access, and land grabbing by the wealthy in Portland are among key issues of concerns raised by electors in the evergreen constituency of Portland Eastern, and the new...
The Jamaica Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (JSPCA) is facing a race against time as it scrambles to find $200 million to relocate more than 500 animals after losing its long-time home at 10 Winchester Road in St Andrew. Managing...
