GSAT breach - Ministry blacklists examiner for meddling during test
After investigating reports of irregularities during the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT), the education ministry has blacklisted a veteran presiding examiner for interfering with the proceedings and misleading students during the communication task...
In Ricardo Smith's he(art) - inner-city artist needs break
Two months away from attaining legal adulthood, Ricardo Smith is burdened and, having no one to turn to, he recently visited The Gleaner to tell His Story. Central to his problem is his inability to help himself, his mother and a younger brother...
MoneyMasters to host investment and economic forum
In order to outline emerging opportunities in the short to medium term, MoneyMasters Ltd will tomorrow facilitate an in-depth look at opportunities available within, and arising from the global recession. The forum, to be held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel...
Thomas sets sights on hurdles crown
WHEN the names of athletes are released this week for the men's 100 metres at the National Championships, the list will not include a familar entrant. Former Calabar High sprinter, Dwight 'Bigga' Thomas, who has represented the country at the senior level since 1999...
EDITORIAL - Needed: conversation on public-policy formulation
Two significant, apparently separate, but connected reports appeared on the front page of this newspaper on Friday. The most obviously eye-catching of these was about the estimated 4,000 people who turned up at the York Park Fire Station on Thursday...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Deeper analysis of GSAT placement required
The Editor, Sir: An article in The Gleaner on June 11, titled 'More students head to schools of their choice', made reference to a table with the national averages for the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT). It would seem that the 2009 aggregate percentage...
Why Do Jamaicans Run So Fast?
With a 'little feeling' that something big was going to happen at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China, Spanish music producer Fernando Garcia-Guereta shifted gears from the studio and on to the track with his debut documentary Why Do Jamaicans Run So Fast?...
Master mixer McHugh !
Patrice McHugh is the first Jamaican to obtain a master's degree in mixology. She scored second highest in a class of 85 students from the United States of America. McHugh is the managing director of the popular Bars to Go and her husband operates the food side...