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St Bess institution to handle youths with maladaptive behaviours
A high school for male students with maladaptive behaviours is to open its doors in Malvern, St Elizabeth in time for the next academic year. This is according to Minister of Education Ronald Thwaites, who said the school — an initiative of the Jamaica Labour Party administration which was announced by Daryl Vaz, t ...more
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Promoted: Joedian Haughton
Sunday, February 12, 2012
JOEDIAN Haughton is proof positive that having the right academic credentials and experience in a field can prove secondary to an individual's positive attitude to work and the promise of the ability to perform a job on the road to career advancement ...more
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UCJ accredits UCC Commonwealth master’s programmes
Sunday, February 12, 2012
THE University College of the Caribbean (UCC) is pleased to add to its slate of accredited programmes, the executive Master’s in Business Administration and the Executive Master’s in Public Administration. The announcement came recently ...more
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Discourse-driven math teaching needed — educators
Sunday, February 12, 2012
LOCAL expert math educators are emphasising a more discourse-driven approach to the teaching of the subject, which many students continue to dread. Data based on performance in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) show that student s ...more
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Black Jamaicans have strong tradition of entrepreneurship — academics
Sunday, February 12, 2012
HISTORY and business scholars have dismissed the idea that black people who make up more than 90 per cent of Jamaicans have not been successful in business. However, they have noted that discriminatory laws prevented people of African descent from p ...more
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Getting paid to manage risk
Sunday, February 12, 2012
THEY are paid to not only identify, but also measure and analyse financial risks in order to provide their clients with the solution to how these can be minimised. These pros are in the business of market risk management. For insight into what they ...more
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New trainee managers join the Sandals Group
Sunday, February 12, 2012
AFTER an intense three-month selection process, Sandals Resorts International (SRI) has employed 26 young persons from across the Caribbean as trainee managers in the organisation's two-year Management Trainee Programme (MTP). The trainee managers, ...more
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Low-interest financing for renewables available in JA
Sunday, February 12, 2012
WITH electricity bills continuing to rise and awareness of environmental matters growing in Jamaica, local businesses and householders showed keen interest in setting up renewable energy systems at a forum on energy last Thursday. Many persons would ...more
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OLPC readies for roll-out
Sunday, February 12, 2012
A year after launching the pilot, organisers of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) programme are ready to have it replicated in basic and primary schools across Jamaica. But for that to happen, the programme will need an increased level of supervision ...more
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UWI Career Awareness Month gets under way
Sunday, February 12, 2012
THE University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, is this month celebrating its ninth Annual Career Awareness Month. This is a combination of activities throughout the month of February aimed at disseminating career information to UWI students as well ...more
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A wetland wastewater engineering solution
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Career & Education shares with you this week a related article to Dr Barry Wades' piece headlined 'A wetland wastewater solution', carried in last Sunday's publication — in celebration of World Wetlands Day. The day is celebrated internatio ...more
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Policy revision for student loan disbursements coming
Sunday, February 12, 2012
MINISTER of Education Ronald Thwaites has noted his intention to bring about a revision of the guidelines for student loan disbursements to give preference to students pursuing particular fields of study at university. "If we had all the money we ne ...more
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Curious tykes
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Students of Weise Road Development Centre, located in Bull Bay, St Thomas, are excited as they check out the keyboard to their new computer donated by the NCB Foundation. Sharing in the occasion are (from left) Isaac McIntosh, chairman of the school' ...more
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Tarrant High scores big in CAPE
Sunday, February 05, 2012
TARRANT High School has a checkered past, but with the success of its sixth-form programme last year the institution appears on course to a promising future. For the first time, in 2011, the school — which has only had a sixth-form programme i ...more
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St Andrew Prep searching for top spellers
Sunday, February 05, 2012
St Andrew Prep School opened its 2012 Spelling Bee competition this month with the first elimination round. Here are the participants in that round from the Primary and Junior departments. St Andrew Prep searching for top spellers --> more
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A wetland wastewater solution
Sunday, February 05, 2012
In observation of World Wetlands Day, celebrated on February 2, Career & Education shares with you this week an article from Dr Barry Wade. The day is celebrated under a different theme annually to mark the date of the adoption of the Convention ...more
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Franklyn Powell: Jamalco's EMT of the Year
Sunday, February 05, 2012
A stickler for perfection, ambitious, loyal and a true team player, emergency medical technician (EMT) at Jamalco Franklyn Powell is considered no ordinary employee. So exceptional has he been as a worker that after only 11 months as a full-time emp ...more
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51 UWI faculty members awarded for outstanding work
Sunday, February 05, 2012
FIFTY-ONE scientists, lecturers and researchers were awarded for their outstanding projects in 2011, at the culmination of the 13th annual Research Day celebrations at the University of the West Indies, Mona (UWI) more than a week ago. Topping the l ...more
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Rashida Jamyelah: A blooming rose in the music biz
Sunday, February 05, 2012
SLOWLY but surely, Rashida Jamyelah is carving out a place for herself in Jamaica's music industry, not only as a singer, but also as the provider of a variety of entertainment services. Those services run the gamut from graphic designing, photogra ...more
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Promoted: Barrington Groves
Sunday, February 05, 2012
AT only 30 years old and after just two years as marketing officer for Sagicor, Barrington Groves has been elevated to brand manager for the insurance giant. His secret, he said, has been to constantly challenge himself to exceed targets set while a ...more
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J'can wins top prize in Japanese essay contest
Sunday, February 05, 2012
OF the 186 entries from 43 countries, Jamaican Nicole Brown was selected as the grand prize winner for the Japan Foreign Trade Council's (JFTC's) annual essay contest. The JFTC has sponsored the contest since 2005 to encourage persons from across th ...more
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Jamaica ripe for small business development, coach tells entrepreneurs
Sunday, February 05, 2012
THE current economic climate in Jamaica is conducive to the development of small businesses. This is according to professional business coach and consultant Marcia Woon Choy of the United States-based business coaching franchise ActionCOACH, who has ...more
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Waste haven?
Sunday, February 05, 2012
The Cassia Park gully in Kingston has not been spared the waste heaped upon the gully that guns along Cassava Piece. It, too, has become a dumping ground for garbage. (Photo: Lionel Rookwood) Waste haven? --> more
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Garbage hell?
Sunday, February 05, 2012
This gully, which runs along the Cassava Piece community in Kingston, appears to have been transformed into a waste disposal site. From old clothes and barrels, to plastics, paper and tree cuttings, it's all there on display at this gully. (Photo: Li ...more
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Hello, Rev
Sunday, February 05, 2012
Reverend John Sentamu, Anglican archbishop of York, is greeted by students of St Alban's Primary School in Denham Town last Monday. He was on a tour of the institutions which are supported by the Anglican church in Kingston's inner-city communities. ...more
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Greetings, little one
Sunday, February 05, 2012
Reverend John Sentamu, Anglican archbishop of York, talks with a young student of St Alban's Basic and Infant School, which is run by the All Saints Anglican Church in West Kingston. He was on a tour of the schools supported by the Anglican church in ...more
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The GI doctor
Sunday, January 29, 2012
FROM rare disorders of the digestive system to more comonly seen conditions such as colorectal cancer, viral hepatitis, irritable bowel syndrome, heartburn and chronic vomitting, these professionals diagnose and treat them. They are gastroenterologi ...more
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Youth gets chance at success through YUTE
Sunday, January 29, 2012
JAZEIME Russell, an unemployed resident of Trench Town, is one of hundreds of youngsters who the private sector-led coalition project Youth Upliftment Through Employment (YUTE) has given a second chance at making something of their lives. Russell, 1 ...more
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Free tuition policy to be abandoned?
Sunday, January 29, 2012
RONALD Thwaites, Jamaica's new minister of education, has stopped just short of saying he will do away with the island's policy of free tuition up to the secondary level. "No-one should be denied educational opportunity on the basis of their inabili ...more
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Ministry intervention nears for 'failing schools'
Sunday, January 29, 2012
AS early as next month, the Ministry of Education is to begin its intervention into the four secondary institutions that were labelled as 'failing schools' in need of urgent attention by the last minister of education, Andrew Holness. Marcus Garvey ...more
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ODPEM moves to bolster Jamaica's readiness for quakes
Sunday, January 29, 2012
TO help limit the fallout from a major earthquake, the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) has been working with critical sectors to have them integrate disaster risk reduction practices into their operations. ...more
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Reports of teacher oversupply, but more data needed
Sunday, January 29, 2012
THERE have been reports of an oversupply of teachers of some subjects at the secondary education level, according to some principals, but the data to determine a clearer picture of the problem is lacking. Meanwhile, the shortage of qualified teacher ...more
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Promoted: Mark Chisholm
Sunday, January 29, 2012
HARD work, determination and humility — along with a healthy display of leadership qualities — are all factors that Mark Chisholm credits for his recent promotion. The 43-year-old is the new executive vice-president of the Individual Ins ...more
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SWTC celebrates 50 years
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Lincoln Williams, head of the Social Welfare Training Centre at the University of the West Indies, in discussion with Syble Francis, the first head of centre, now retired, at a church service to celebrate the centre's 50th anniversary. The service wa ...more
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Cardiac Surgery Simulator unveiled
Sunday, January 29, 2012
From left: Dr Orville Williams, Dr Roger Irvine and Dr Roger Miller simulate a cardiac operation using the revolutionary Cardiac Surgery Simulator (CSS) invention at the opening of the University of the West Indies Research Day 2012 last Thursday. Th ...more
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CARIMAC students get PAJ scholarship
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Shanique Samuels (second left) and Kimberley McLeod, both students of the Caribbean Institute for Media and Communication at the University of the West Indies, Mona, share a light moment with Milton Walker, group head of news and sports at the RJR Co ...more
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Campion sweeps Government scholarships
Sunday, January 29, 2012
STUDENTS of Campion College won six out of seven scholarships offered by the Government to universities for 2011, underscoring the school's status as one of Jamaica's leading secondary institutions based on academic performance. The outstanding stud ...more
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Inspire others with your promotion
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Were you recently promoted? Share your story with Career & Education. E-mail williamsp@jamaicaobserver.com. Inspire others with your promotion --> more
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Latoya Thomas makes her mark in cement mining
Sunday, January 22, 2012
ONE could say she’s a little woman in a man’s world. But don’t let Latoya Thomas’ small stature or long nails fool you. She has, for three years, braved the mines of Caribbean Cement Company Limited (CCCL) to perform the job s ...more
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Ricardo Brooks: Making his mark as a blogger
Sunday, January 22, 2012
FOR Ricardo Brooks — the 2011 Jamaican Blogger of the Year and operator of the blog 'Veritas' — copping the top award was not no easy feat. In a recent interview, Brooks told Career & Education that in addition to "updating his blog ...more
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Promoted: Nicola Leo-Rhynie
Sunday, January 22, 2012
NICOLA Leo-Rhynie has spent the last 20 years earning her stripes in the insurance business. Up to recently, she was the assistant vice-president in the Employee Benefits Division of Sagicor, having previously served the company's Finance Department ...more
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Multigrade schools here to stay?
Sunday, January 22, 2012
THE Ministry of Education has given no indication that it will phase out multigrade schools, despite concerns over their effectiveness in delivering on quality learning outcomes for the mostly rural students who are enrolled in them. According to th ...more
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The stock trading specialist
Sunday, January 22, 2012
THEIR penchant for spotting 'diamonds in the rough' — code for companies with the ability to do well — is just one of the many talents that allow these professionals to help you grow your wealth. They are equity traders — individua ...more
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'Go hunting' - Dream job, promotion, salary increase all within reach
Sunday, January 22, 2012
WHETHER it's that longed-for dream job, a promotion, or a bigger salary, you can have it all this year. So says executive coach Henry Lewis, who insists that all Jamaicans need to do to make it happen is "go hunting". "You can basically go hunting ...more
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National PTA throws support behind ASTEP
Sunday, January 22, 2012
THE National Parent-Teacher Association of Jamaica (NPTAJ) has come out in support of the Alternative Secondary Transition Education Programme (ASTEP) while noting its own efforts to ensure it is properly resourced in order to adequately boost litera ...more
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JTA, NPTAJ back Charlemont principal
Sunday, January 22, 2012
THE Jamaica Teacher's Association (JTA) and the National Parent-Teacher Association of Jamaica (NPTAJ) have both gone on record to indicate their acceptance of the explanation of Charlemont High's principal, following reports he had asked students to ...more
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'Failing schools' must address community needs to improve, experts say
Sunday, January 22, 2012
A distinguished professor of education from the United States and a former teacher at a transformed local high school both agree that working with community stakeholders such as churches, businesses and youth groups to develop programmes to respond t ...more
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Trustees tour Wolmer's campuses
Sunday, January 22, 2012
From left: Students of Wolmer's Girls School Jackee Baker, Nicole Montieth and Safiya Atkinson in discussion with their principal Coleen Montaque; Dr Walton Small, principal of Wolmer's Boys; Pauline Findley, a member of the board of trustees at Wolm ...more
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Text for Rio environment conference hit by wave of criticism
Sunday, January 22, 2012
BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — With the Rio environment conference only five months away, a just-released summit draft calls for "sustainable development goals" toward a 'green' economy, but critics slam it as too vague. Scheduled 20 years after the ...more
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Share your biz journey
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Are you the owner of a new business? Share your story with Career & Education, providing insight into how you made it happen while inspiring budding entrepreneurs. E-mail williamsp@jamaicaobserver.com. Share your biz journey --> more
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Thirsty bird?
Sunday, January 22, 2012
A bird drinks from a pool of water in New Kingston. (Photo: Bryan Cummings) Thirsty bird? --> more
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Keeping the corporate client happy
Sunday, January 15, 2012
WHETHER it's about credit or investment options for big business, the corporate solutions manager is your go-to guy. Career & Education talks this week to just such a professional, one who details, among other things, what it takes to do the job ...more
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Education ministry moves to help poor grade four test performers
Sunday, January 15, 2012
THE Ministry of Education has begun its intervention into six primary schools that performed poorly in the most recent Grade Four Literacy Test. The schools are: Mount Vernon Primary in St Thomas; Rose Hill Primary in Manchester; as well as Wanstead ...more
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Audrey Sewell open to returning to education ministry, but...
Sunday, January 15, 2012
AS her temporary assignment to the Ministry of Transport and Works (now the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing) nears a close, civil servant Audrey Sewell has indicated she is willing to serve any ministry — though she readily claims her ...more
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Education ministry, JTA at odds over ASTEP
Sunday, January 15, 2012
THE Ministry of Education and the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) are expressing widely differing views about the progress of the Alternative Secondary Transitional Education Programme (ASTEP), which was designed to assist non-literate students ...more
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Communities trained in sea turtle monitoring
Sunday, January 15, 2012
RESIDENTS of Treasure Beach in St Elizabeth, Bluefields in Westmoreland as well as Hope Bay and Winnifred Beach in Portland all came together recently to learn about the value of sea turtles and how to monitor the 2011 nesting season. They were brou ...more
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Joan Buchanan: Heritage's Sales Rep of the Year
Sunday, January 15, 2012
JOAN Buchanan — 2011's top sales representative and sales manager for the local chapter of Heritage Education Funds International — has credited planning, team work, co-operation and trust in the Almighty, for her achievements this past y ...more
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'Buy Jamaican... Build Jamaica' campaign extended to schools
Sunday, January 15, 2012
THE Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA), in collaboration with the National Commercial Bank (NCB), will this month distribute 7,000 exercise books, valued at approximately $1.5 million, to primary school students. The books are being distribute ...more
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An electronics man
Sunday, January 15, 2012
CARLOS Malcolm has had a long-time affair with electronic technology. It is little wonder then that he should have spent the last decade at Appliance Traders Limited (ATL) where he has gained experience that is unlikely to be scripted in any workbook ...more
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Interesting read?
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Dr Donna Minott-Kates, course director for the Better Process Control School at the University of the West Indies, thumbs through the pages of a canned foods manual with (from left) Warren Whyte of Goshen Distributors, Basil Hylton of Natural Sources ...more
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More resolutions for the entrepreneur
Sunday, January 15, 2012
THERE are a number of things that entrepreneurs may want to take on at the start of this new year, in a bid to boost their bottom line. * Do an annual legal review It isn't enough to hire a good lawyer and pray you don't get sued. Every business ha ...more
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Digicel launches graduate acceleration programme
Sunday, January 15, 2012
DIGICEL'S inaugural Graduate Acceleration Programme (Digicel GAP) got under way this past week, with the first cohort of six graduates being put through their paces before joining the ranks of the telecoms firm's 5,500-strong workforce worldwide. Di ...more
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Working four-hour weeks not worth the job
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Q: I applied to several stores for part-time seasonal work and was hired at a highly prestigious retail store. Four of us had a group interview and were told by a manager she was going on vacation and would let us know if we were hired when she retur ...more
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Holiday bonus split unfairly among employees
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Q: We recently moved from a house to a condominium. At the beginning of this month, management posted a notice encouraging residents to give to the employees through its "holiday fund". The building hires a professional management company, which, in ...more
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