Teachers at Bethesda Basic School in Portland, Yanique White (left) and Donnalea Brown (right), interact with students on Jamaica Day. (Photo: Everard Owen)
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RETIRED teacher Evadne Scarlett last month partnered with the Kiwanis Club of Discovery Bay to put on Discovery Bay’s first small business exposition.Scarlett, who taught business at William Knibb Memorial High in Trelawny, said that the event was a success.“I couldn’t do it on my own. I am really grateful the club came on board,” she said.
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THE Montego Bay Community College Administration has bowed to pressure from the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) and several staff members, promising to return money “incorrectly” deducted from the latter group’s salaries by the end of this month.
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The Transport Authority says it will not roll back the “takeover service” that it discontinued in 2017, which allowed public passenger transport operators who were opting out of the sector to pass on their licences to a person of their choice.Since last week, some operators have been up in arms clamouring for a review of the policy.
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OVER 5000 students from across the island, along with their teachers and parents, attended the 19th staging of the Minard Livestock Show and Beef Festival in Brown’s Town, St Ann, last Thursday.It was excitement all across the Minard property as students and adults participated in various activities.Students showed great interest in the scramble competition, which saw them taking home the animals they caught.
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High-rise buildings being constructed in Jamaica must meet stringent international fire prevention codes, a senior firefighter has told the Jamaica Observer.According to Assistant Superintendent Howard Thomas, officer in charge of the Kingston and St Andrew Fire Prevention Division, construction of high-rise buildings are also guided by the National Building Code of Jamaica and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) of Jamaica handbook.
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Co-chair of the Public Sector Transformation Oversight Committee Danny Roberts is arguing that the focus on reducing the ratio of wages paid to public sector workers to nine per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is not likely to engender the kind of enthusiasm, commitment and focus among workers that is essential for the transition phase of the transformation process.
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ARDENNE High School Sixth Form students were urged to consider careers in science and technology, the field former Prime Minister Bruce Golding argues is in line with the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Golding, who was speaking at the school’s Distinguished 6th Form Lecture last Wednesday, also said that during his tenure as head of Government an arrangement was to be put in place with the Government-run Students’ Loan Bureau to push funding into the sciences and technology as the world moves…
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Mayor Bill de Blasio marked the 17th anniversary of the crash of Flight 587 in Queens Monday. De Blasio joined friends and family of the 265 victims of the crash for the solemn memorial. The plane was traveling from JFK International Airport to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic when it went down just minutes after takeoff. Everyone on board was killed, along with five people on the ground. The crash happened just two months after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks . It was deemed an accident.
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ISTANBUL, TURKEY (AP) — Shots were fired from a moving car at the US Embassy in Turkey before dawn yesterday, which has pushed up heightened tensions between the two NATO allies. Officials said two people with criminal records were detained.There were no casualties in the fleeting attack in which three of the six bullets fired hit the embassy gate and a reinforced window in the building in Ankara.
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BERLIN, Germany (AP) — The World Health Organization says the number of measles cases in Europe jumped sharply during the first six months of 2018 and at least 37 people have died.The UN agency’s European office said yesterday that more than 41,000 measles cases were reported in the region during the first half of the year — more than in all 12-month periods so far this decade.
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MILAN, Italy (AP) — Heavy rain flooded a gorge filled with hikers yesterday in the southern region of Calabria, killing at least eight, Italy’s civil protection agency said. At least another five were missing.The prefect’s office said 23 people were rescued from the flash flood in the Raganello Gorge, five of whom were hospitalised. They included a 10-year-old boy who was being treated for hypothermia.
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WASHINGTON, DC, USA (AP) — The Trump Administration is set to roll back the centrepiece of President Barack Obama’s efforts to slow global warming.
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A new type one health centre opened in Moravia, Clarendon, on Friday, replacing the clinic that operated from the home of a community member.The centre was constructed by Food For the Poor (FFP) with funds donated by Chicago resident, Denise Di Biase, and on land donated by the Moravian Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Assistance also came from Custos of Clarendon William Shagoury.
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COME the start of the 2018/19 academic year in September, about 100 current and prospective teachers of Spanish at the primary, secondary, vocational, and tertiary levels will enter the classroom better equipped to impart the subject.These individuals, including lecturers at teachers’ colleges and final-year student teachers, are participating in a four-day intensive training course now under way at Shortwood Teachers’ College in St Andrew.
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