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Drowned boy’s dad angry at teachers, says he wants closure
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BRYAN'S BAY, Portland — Horace Burke stood on the beach in this town on Jamaica's north-eastern coast Friday looking out at the same angry sea that had taken his 16-year-old son Shane the day before.
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Drowned teen’s body recovered
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THE body of Shane Anthony Burke was recovered from the sea about six miles from the Shanshy Beach in Portland this morning.
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You? Drive? Hell No!
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A 44-year-old disabled man is hollering discrimination after local examiners refused him the chance to do a driver’s licence test last month. Gausia Burchell wants to drive his own car, like thousands of other Jamaicans, but the law says he can’t because he is paralysed from the waist down.
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KPH getting better, but...
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THE pungent odour that left one feeling nauseous, the filthy walls and the grey clumps and wisps of ancient cobwebs that hung in the Accident and Emergency (A&E) unit of the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) last August are gone.
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Some churches, schools now using Patois Bible
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IT'S been long in coming, but four years after the Bible Society of the West Indies embarked on its most controversial project ever, the organisation is reporting that it has translated all of the New Testament into Jamaican Patois.
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Can Sandrea Falconer cross it?
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IAN Boyne seemed genuinely chastened when a journalistic gaffe, inserted without bad intent, he said, by an editor into his weekly Gleaner column made him appear to take a side swipe at Sandrea Falconer, the new information minister, to suggest that she is "arrogant, abrasive, not likeable or credible".
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Time to move on
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MANDEVILLE, Manchester — With the installation of the new Custos of Manchester Sally Porteous finally a done deal, Manchester Chamber of Commerce (MCOC) President and Justice of the Peace (JP) Wendy Freckleton wants an end to the conflict among parishioners over her appointment.
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Blind, but still at bat
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ERROL 'Jigs' Ennis might have lost his sight, but the former parliamentarian's indomitable spirit won't let him slink off into obscurity.
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Bigger ships, less greenhouse gases
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ANTIPATER of Sidon, a Greek poet, would be writing travel guides had he lived now.
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No teaching certificate, no job!
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THE insistence of the Ministry of Education that all high school principals must be, among other things, holders of a teaching certificate, has foiled one high school's plan to have a confirmed principal for the first time in almost a decade.
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