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LETTER: The current thinking around the development of examination
Dear Editor:
We note with interest, the appeal by Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the CXC, Dr Wayne Wesley, re “We need to find an approach...
Three years later no sign of breathalyzers
Three years after the Administration promised the introduction of breathalyzers, the Head of the Traffic Department says the COVID-19 pandemic has added to the...
Vaccine Mandate has resulted in teacher shortage
As a result of the Government’s vaccination mandate, the Ministry of Education reports there is now a shortfall of 109 teachers in the public-school...
Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court Recognised as a Pioneering Caribbean Woman...
The Honourable Dame Janice M. Pereira, DBE, LL.D, Chief Justice, has been recognised by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Academy for Law as...
The Queen slams world leaders not committing to climate change
The Queen made a rare public intervention on the climate change crisis yesterday, saying she is ‘irritated’ by people who ‘talk but don’t do’.
She...
Teen facing 13 charges remanded to Her Majesty’s Prison
Nineteen-year-old Ernest Wright, who has been slapped with 13 charges, will be spending time behind the ‘red gate’ of Her Majesty’s Prison pending the...
Sandals Resorts’ Executive Chairman, Adam Stewart, has been invited to join the Executive Committee...
Sandals Resorts’ Executive Chairman, Adam Stewart, has been formally invited to join the Executive Committee of the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC).
The induction...
Chris Gayle: ‘I have no respect for Curtly Ambrose whatsoever’
Chris Gayle had stern words for Curtly Ambrose after the former West Indies fast bowler said that the batter wouldn't be his automatic pick in the West...
‘Vampire’ who murdered 10 children escapes from prison in Kenya
A man in Kenya who was dubbed a vampire after confessing to the killings of ten children and sucking the blood out of at...
Cabinet agrees to the return of 4th and 5th Form students to their classrooms
CABINET NOTES:
The Director of Education and the Deputy proposed, on the basis of their analysis of the current vaccination status of teachers and students,...
The UWI Five Islands gifted with its very own Ceremonial Mace
During the 2021 Presentation of Graduates, a new ceremonial mace of The UWI was carried by President of the Guild of Students in the...
Regional students performed well in CXC exams despite challenges
Students across the Caribbean have had to battle with a number of challenges from natural disasters to the coronavirus pandemic and the death of...
Road to Hermitage Hotel is hellish, motorists complain, while residents fear that water-filled potholes...
Motorists and persons living in the area are complaining about a major thoroughfare in Jennings that leads to one of the island’s noted hotels.
In...