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Education ministry launches anti-gang in schools week

Education ministry launches anti-gang in schools week

The Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth & Information has officially launched its Anti-Gang In Schools Week 2026, calling for a united national effort to protect Jamaican students from gang recruitment and guide them towards positive pathways.

  • Nov 10, 2026 02:35 PM | Education

Top Stories

Russian foreign minister warns against western dominance, calls for new global economic order

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has issued a sweeping criticism of Western economic and geopolitical policies, accusing the United States and…

  • Nov 10, 2026 09:22 AM | International
5 Bible verses supporting Jehovah’s Witnesses blood doctrine

Jehovah’s Witnesses have historically relied on five principal Bible passages to support their religious doctrine prohibiting blood transfusions.…

  • Nov 07, 2026 07:59 AM | Religion
Jehovah’s Witnesses relax blood transfusion ban after adherent’s death

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Sports

Innswood Old Boys retains Rovman Powell T20 Bash crown to extend dynasty

The fourth staging of the Rovman Powell T20 Bash concluded in familiar fashion on Sunday, as Innswood Old Boys reaffirmed their stranglehold on the…

  • Sep 28, 2026 02:21 PM | Sports

Education

Education ministry launches anti-gang in schools week

Anti-Gang In Schools Week, which is being observed from November 8 to 14, under the theme, ‘Step…

  • Nov 10, 2026 09:35 AM | Education
Students encouraged to pursue cybersecurity careers

“[I] often tell them to ensure that their portfolio is given as much attention as their GPA (Grade Point Average), because if you can show that…

  • Oct 27, 2026 01:04 PM | Education
Lynton Weir criticizes CXC’s discontinuation of SBA

Speaking at a special ceremony on the school’s grounds on September 12, 2026, where approximately…

  • Sep 16, 2026 04:18 PM | Education
500 scientific calculators donated to Old Harbour High School

The initiative was made possible through a collaboration between FAST Enterprises and the Pollyanna Project Inc.,…

  • Sep 15, 2026 09:14 AM | Education

Business

Jamaica returns to global markets with record-breaking US$1 billion bond

The bond, priced at a coupon of 6.25 percent, was substantially oversubscribed by approximately 2.5 times, reflecting robust demand from both…

  • Sep 22, 2026 01:02 PM | Business

Commentary

70% water loss? The number that should have ended careers and started investigations | How NWC turned a system failure into a procurement engine

She offered this as a reason desalination is not economically viable and cited loss reduction as…

  • Oct 06, 2026 08:14 AM | Commentary
The Dervan I knew

I spent hundreds of hours online and face-to-face in boardrooms with Dervan Malcolm. The man I knew was kind, intensely private, and guarded about…

  • Oct 06, 2026 07:01 AM | Commentary
Speak now, not at the funeral

It is a painful contradiction. The person who desperately needed a telephone call receives…

  • Sep 21, 2026 12:24 PM | Commentary
Remittances remain important | The challenge is mobilization

That was the question that came to mind when a regular reader recently sent me a copy of a 2017 Caribbean Policy…

  • Jun 22, 2026 08:18 AM | Commentary