Epic Jamaican Women
March is being celebrated as Women’s History Month in several countries around the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Jamaica, to correspond with International...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – March 10, 2014
Straight Jacket For Finance Minister. Parliament will be asked to consider proposals in two bills tabled in the House of Representatives last week which seek to straight-jacket the behaviour of the...
View Article6 Champs 2014 Records In Context
The 2014 staging of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Championships ended on Saturday night with Calabar High School retaining its title from 2013 and Edwin Allen High School taking its second...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – April 16, 2014
‘Freeness Mentality’ Blamed For CSEC Exam Absenteeism. Educators have blamed a mentality of ‘freeness’ for the large percentage of students who are refusing to sit the Caribbean Secondary Education...
View ArticleJamaican Child Stars
When people hear the words ‘child star,’ they generally think of American celebrities such as Michael Jackson, but Jamaica has produced its own share of pint-sized stars over the years. In honour of...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – May 16, 2014
Dark Days For JPS – Creditors Jittery But Company Vows No Let-Up On War Against Thieves. Kelly Tomblin, president and chief executive officer of the Jamaica Public Service (JPS), has signalled that...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – June 24, 2014
Sex Shop Slavery – Forced Prostitution In Massage Parlours Concerns Researcher. On the heels of a scathing report by the United States Department of State about Jamaica’s efforts to combat human...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – July 2, 2014
Death Squad Holes: DPP To Reassess Clarendon Police Murder Cases. The country’s top prosecutor has raised questions about the strength of all but two of the 11 alleged police ‘death squad’ cases and...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – July 28, 2014
Mercy, Please: Man Serving Life Sentence On A Judge’s Error Begs Sir Patrick For Clemency. A senior citizen has been languishing in prison for the past 21 years because of an error a judge made in...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – July 29, 2014
Golden Double! Jamaicans Glitter In Glasgow With Gold-Medal Finishes. O’Dayne Richards created history in the shot put and Kemar Bailey-Cole kept Jamaica’s sprinting pride intact as the island’s...
View ArticleWe diG Sports!
Jamaicans LOVE sports. We love to watch them. We love to play or take part in them. Even more, we love to talk about them – every Jamaican is a passionate analyst when it comes to the performance of...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – August 26, 2014
Sugar-Cane Power – Pan Carib To Generate Electricity From Bagasse. The Chinese-owned Pan Caribbean Sugar Company Limited is powering up its generators in order to use bagasse to produce energy to slash...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – August 29, 2014
Remembering Roger…Champion Farmer Sleeps. Roger Harold Clifford Clarke, the colourful Comrade who captivated cohorts on the political platform, yesterday took his last breath in one of a series of...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – November 24, 2014
Bring In The Obeah Man… Sensitise Traditional Healers About Ebola. As Jamaica continues to make preparations and put structures in place to deal with the deadly Ebola if it lands on local soil, one...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – December 18, 2014
US-Cuba Embrace. It’s been long in coming but it has finally happened. That’s how Jamaicans are describing the re-establishment of diplomatic ties between the United States (US) and Cuba, which had...
View ArticleChamps School Profile – Vere Technical High School
Vere Technical High School has won the most Girls Champs titles since the ladies got their own show in 1957 – 22 in total. The school even maintained a 15-year stranglehold on the trophy from 1979 to...
View ArticleChamps School Profile – St Jago High School
St Jago High School has produced a number of outstanding athletes, many of whom have gone on to represent Jamaica at the highest level, winning medals and making history. Here are five facts about the...
View ArticleChamps School Profile – Manchester High
Manchester High last won Girls’ Champs in 1995. The school has produced a number of outstanding past and current stars, as well as bright prospects for Jamaica’s continued success in athletics. Here...
View ArticleChamps School Profile – Edwin Allen High
Two-time winners Edwin Allen High School spent many years in the shadow of the behemoth Holmwood Technical High before finally getting the better of their arch-rivals at Girls’ Champs 2012. Here are...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – April 30, 2015
Missing Customs Files Result In $16 Million Revenue Losses. Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis on Tuesday told members of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament (PAC) that someone should be held...
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