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Union organised protest. Photos: Dr Glenville Ashby, Cara Metz and Bruce Coller
Ten years ago recruiters from the New York City Department of Education wooed Caribbean teachers. It was an inviting offer that many of the region’s most seasoned and q
The annual Women At The Control fund-raiser got off to a galloping start with Jamaica's only female jockey, Georgina Sergeon, who entered 38A Trafalgar Road pillion style on a motorbike with whip in hand and getting the crowd warmed up with a great
tears run out of your face
when they're inside you and can find no space
they drain out of the "appropriate" parts
to indicate your broken heart
you need them to show sometimes
you need them to flow sometimes
this world is a cruel place
and as we run in thi
Managing Director of the Maia Chung Autism and Disabilities Foundation, Maia Chung-Smith, addresses the launch of her organisation’s Autism Splash event on November 7 at Emancipation Park in Kingston.
Families affected by autism will, over the next t
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Autism Screenings and Assessments
Public schools are required by law to identify all children with disabilities, including those with autism spectrum disorders (AU) (IDEA, 2004).
Early identification is key because early treatment leads to better outco
Cubans react to the news that they are now allowed to buy and sell houses
Cuba has approved a law allowing individuals to buy and sell homes for the first time since the early days of the revolution, official media say.
The law, which takes effect o
Impeach the Monsters is a searing and combustive poetic masterpiece exigently sewn unto paginated raiment. Walter Harris III, commonly referred to by his sobriquet, Mankh, is a missionary of sort—not in the classical religious sense. He is a messeng
As Jamaica seeks to slash high import food bills, the country and its farmers are reaping success with greenhouse technology.
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES
jcharles@MiamiHerald.com
HIGHGATE, Jamaica
Seraldo Henry swings open the wooden-frame door of the spra
Forty-four year old Camille Selvon-Abrahams is indeed a trailblazer in the field of Animation in Trinidad and Tobago, and certainly the Caribbean. As one of the country’s well known animators, she now juggles many hats of Program Coordinator and Le
After last week’s nerve-wracking episode of Project Runway Anya Ayoung-Chee supporters have come out in full force to ensure she receives the $10,000 people’s choice prize. Anya had revealed she would use the money to start a micro-credit fund for y
The local fashion industry will get a further boost next month as a New York-based industry expert will facilitate a one-day workshop on trends, marketing and exports of fashion products. The Trinidad and Tobago Coalition of Services Industries (TTC
CASTRIES, St Lucia, Thursday
St Lucia has beaten out its CARICOM neighbours, including long-established international financial centre The Bahamas, to be recognised within the World Bank International Financial Corporation’s Doing Business 2012: Doi
KINGSTON, Jamaica
Three renewable energy projects include a solar panel production facility, a waste-based energy production facility, and self-contained sustainable shrimp farming modules, has been announced for Jamaica by the Hampden Kent Group.
Th
A sample of the photographer and filmmaker Roberto Chile "Images of everyday Afro-Cuban" opened in New York under the auspices of the embassies of Venezuela and Cuba in the United States.
The idea came from the exposure of African Descent, consistin
In his address to the people, Holness, the first prime minister to be born after Jamaica gained inde
It has happened to you or someone you know. Traipsing through Castries city, your eyes widen in disbelief. You bow your head in amazement. Utter shock fills your being. Ladies, the strap on your shoe popped or guys the sole of your shoe is laugh
