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JAMAICA’S CLASSROOMS are facing an unsettling challenge, with one in every 10 high-school students reporting that they have gone to school drunk, while a similar proportion say they have turned up under the influence of marijuana or other drugs.
DESPITE CLAIMS by several principals that their schools are not ready, Education Minister Dr Dana Morris Dixon is insisting that all schools across the ministry’s Region Four – covering Hanover, St James and Westmoreland – will reopen...
FOR 35-YEAR-OLD pastor Randell Gordon, the hardships of his childhood and a nearfatal motor vehicle accident have shaped a mission to help young people find purpose and resist the negative influences of society. Gordon, a recent...
JAMAICA’S NEWLY installed consul general in Newyork, Oliver Mair, has vowed to adopt a practical approach to his new assignment, with widespread engagement with Jamaicans across the jurisdiction. “I intend to be present, accessible and...