Shak’s Hope Sickle Cell Foundation, the vision of Shakira Aminah Martin, Miss Jamaica Universe 2011, who passed in August 2016 from sickle-cell complications, successfully hosted its first annual Sickle Cell Education, Awareness and…
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Jamaican-Americans Kerry Washington and Sheryl Lee Ralph Selected for Walk of Fame Stars
Jamaican Americans Sheryl Lee Ralph, an Emmy Award winner and star of “Abbot Elementary,” and Kerry Washington, known for her role as “Olivia Pope” in the television series, “Scandal,” have been chosen to…
Jamaican-Americans Kerry Washington and Sheryl Lee Ralph Selected for Walk of Fame Stars
Jamaican Americans Sheryl Lee Ralph, an Emmy Award winner and star of “Abbot Elementary,” and Kerry Washington, known for her role as “Olivia Pope” in the television series, “Scandal,” have been chosen to…
‘It humbled me and broke my heart’
SANDRA Christie Brown knows what it’s like attending school without shoes. When she visited her alma mater, Maverley Primary and Infant School in the Corporate Area, and saw students frolicking without shoes during…
Drug shortage
LOCAL shortage of Pethidine tablets has sparked some concerns among some members of the sickle cell community who rank it as their top medication to alleviate pain. President of the Pharmaceutical Society of…
Drug shortage
LOCAL shortage of Pethidine tablets has sparked some concerns among some members of the sickle cell community who rank it as their top medication to alleviate pain. President of the Pharmaceutical Society of…
Love Languages Speak When Spouses Listen….Five Ways
My all time favorite program to watch is Bushcraft. I find it very interesting to watch those men and women camping in the mountains, many times off the grid, fending for themselves by…
ODPP to appeal Caricel spectrum case ruling
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) is set to challenge the dismissal of the case against four executives of Symbiote Investments Limited, which operates as telecommunications brand Caricel. The company…
TEACHING JOBS DRAMA
MONTEGO BAY, St James — There is more to come, those in the industry have said, but already 272 teaching positions have been advertised across 23 high schools in the print media alone,…
Imani Tafari-Ama | Reflections on Primary Exit Profile results
It was shocking to hear the minister of education’s assessment of the results of the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examination results. The notion that boys are underperforming vis-à-vis their female counterparts in mathematics…