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Your handwriting: All this pro needs to gauge who you are
FROM the examination of the slants, size, spacing, speed, and pressure of your handwriting, these professionals can give you insight into your personality — knowledge that can serve you both professionally and in your personal life. They're called graphologists. Related to the work of these pros is that of the ...more
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ASTEP to get needed resources — Thwaites
Sunday, February 19, 2012
THE Alternative Secondary Education Programme (ASTEP) is, within another month or so, to receive the promised budgetary support necessary to properly resource the more than 250 centres where students are taught. Minister of Education Ronald Thwaites ...more
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National math competition open for applicants
Sunday, February 19, 2012
THE Seprod Group of Companies — main sponsors of the Butterkist National Primary Schools Mathematics Competition — have begun their search for the 2012 champion. As such, they have called on educators and aspiring mathematicians at the p ...more
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JMA head urges school leavers to apply for manufacturing jobs
Sunday, February 19, 2012
PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA) Brian Pengelley is calling on educated school leavers to apply for jobs in manufacturing companies through the JMA. The JMA head said a number of companies in the manufacturing sector are cur ...more
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CGST to roll out Holistic Child Development programme
Sunday, February 19, 2012
A group of 25 students are shortly to access the latest offering of the Caribbean Graduate School of Theology (CGST): the Holistic Child Development programme, which is designed to enhance their competence to work with the youth. At the end of the 1 ...more
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Pickersgill gives assurance for Climate Change Dep't
Sunday, February 19, 2012
MINISTER of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change Robert Pickersgill has announced his intention to establish a Climate Change department within the next few months. Though not indicating exactly when, the minister gave the assurance that the ...more
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UWI students weigh in on loan policy
Sunday, February 19, 2012
THE Ministry of Education is moving to have student loans awarded on the basis of what students are studying at university, as part of efforts to help meet the development needs of the country. Career & Education writer Ainsworth Morris ventured ...more
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Education ministry crafts programme for bright students
Sunday, February 19, 2012
THE Ministry of Education has revealed it will stay the course with plans for a programme designed to cater to Jamaica's gifted students — despite the recent change in the administration of the government. But six months after former education ...more
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AISK well served by technology
Sunday, February 19, 2012
THE American International School of Kingston (AISK) has, through the use of technology, boosted the learning environment for their students, resulting in 100 per cent matriculation of their graduates into universities, both locally and abroad. Head ...more
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Young Jamaicans
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Students of George Headley Primary in Kingston, along with a few of their teachers, prepare for their Jamaica Day celebrations last Friday. (Photo: Garfield Robinson) more
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Liming at St Jago
Sunday, February 19, 2012
LIME's regional Grace Silvera in discussion with students of St Jago High School in Kingston during a recent visit to the school. The telcoms firm has signed an endorsement deal with celebrated athlete and former St Jago student Yohan Blake. (Photo: ...more
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Energy talk perhaps?
Sunday, February 19, 2012
From left: Phillip Paulwell, minister of science, technology, energy, and mining makes a point to Leonid Stavitsky, Windalco managing director; his interpreter, Sergey Ivanov and Julian Robinson, state minister in the Ministry of Science, Technology, ...more
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Apply for manufacturing jobs, JMA head tells school leavers
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Manufacturing Association (JMA) Brian Pengelley is calling on educated school leavers to apply for jobs in manufacturing companies through the JMA. The JMA head said a number of companies in the manufacturing sector are curr ...more
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St Bess institution to handle youths with maladaptive behaviours
Sunday, February 12, 2012
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 th ...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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