Rejected!
Unionised academic staff of the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech), angered by what they say is the total “disregard” shown by the institution and the Government in the ongoing dispute over retroactive sums owed…
Category: Local News
Visa jitters
There are increasing jitters in local circles today as reports surface that the United States (US) is set to revoke the visas of five more members of the political directorate.
30 years after Berlin Wall fell, East-West divides remain
BERLIN, Germany (AP) — The walls of the Bornholmer Huette pub were last painted in 1973, a light beige that has gradually cracked and darkened into a caramel brown from decades of cigarette smoke.
US writer sues Trump for defamation after alleged rape
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A respected US writer who says Donald Trump raped her over two decades ago sued the president for defamation yesterday after he ridiculed her as “not my type”.E Jean Carroll, a maga…
Nestlé cops Best of Chamber Award for a Large Enterprise
Nestlé Jamaica Limited has, for the second consecutive year, been awarded the Best of Chamber Award in the category of Large Enterprise, at Saturday night’s staging of the annual Jamaica Chamber of Commerce Awards and Grand Charit…
PHOTO: A true Guardian
This Day In History — November 4
Today is the 309th day of 2019. There are 56 days left in the year.TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT2013: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford acknowledges for the first time that he smoked crack probably “a year ago” but refuses to resign as leader…
Camperdown’s about-turn on student lockout
CAMPERDOWN High School administrators have made an about-turn in their policy of denying access to students who arrive late to the east Kingston school, following a Ministry of Education bulletin forbidding the action.Checks made b…
‘Little monkeys’ comment angers parent
A family in rural Jamaica is distraught that, despite several attempts to seek redress when their visually impaired child suffered what they consider to be repeated abuse, allegedly at the hands of at least one Salvation Army offic…
Technology training programme builds confidence in Rose Town women
Fourteen women from Rose Town, one of Kingston’s tough communities, are now better able to navigate today’s knowledge-based and digital society after they successfully completed the iRose in Tech programme administered by youth em…