18-y-o vows to flip the script on deadbeat dads
While many pregnant schoolgirls bear the burden of stigma and financial difficulties, the consensus is that teenage dads-to-be get off scot-free. But at least one prospective father is trying to change the stereotype of the 'slam-bam-thank-you-ma'am' deadbeat dad....
Burger King National Schools' Debate competition - Garvey Maceo cruises into fourth round
Garvey Maceo High School defeated Glenmuir High School by 36 points to take the team to the fourth round of the Berger King National Schools' Debate. The match was held at the St Gabriel's Anglican Church Hall in May Pen, Clarendon, on Tuesday. Debating against the moot...
Two remain out west
WESTERN BUREAU: Making the necessary sacrifices to ensure debating success is something that Herbert Morrison Technical High School's Ramone Scarlett and Cornwall College's Mikhail Williams are all too familiar with. Ramone, the president of the debate club at his school...
Committee needs the force - Independent commission to investigate police excesses compelled to use the expertise of cops
THE GOLDING administration's election manifesto promised to set up an independent commission to investigate police excesses will, in its initial stages, be forced to use the expertise of the police force. For years, public cries have resonated across the island...
Cop's lawyer threatens action against police
A lawyer representing a police corporal charged with corruption said he would be writing to the commissioner of police to investigate the Anti-Corruption Branch for an excessive use of power. Sean Kinghorn told the court that the Constitutional rights...
$833-million bill for major road repairs
The Government will have to come up with $833 million to repair the roads damaged by flood rains last month. Transport and Works Minister Mike Henry says this is a preliminary estimate which was prepared by the National Works Agency (NWA) and includes...
Vice-principal to appear in court March 13
WESTERN BUREAU: Thirty-six-year-old Maxine Tugwell-Brown, the acting vice-principal of John's Hall All-Age School, who has been charged with the murder of her husband, was on Wednesday remanded in custody. She has been behind bars since February 22,...