By| O'Jay Cole, Journalist
(Photo: Terrence Wilson)
Considering the COVID 19 pandemic and airlines curtailing their schedules the Northern Caribbean University’s (NCU) administration is advising international students residing on the dormitories to quickly finalize travel arrangements to return home. In an announcement, yesterday...
By| O'Jay Cole, Journalist
(Photo: Terrence Wilson)
The coronavirus is a global phenomenon and has been the trending topic in the media for the past three weeks or more. For clarity, coronaviruses are a type of virus and there are different kinds. COVID-19 is the newly identified type which has caused a recent outbreak of...
|By O'Jay Cole, Journalist
NCU student (left) assisting SPM employee (right) in the community outreach along the Winston Jones Highway in Manchester (Photo: Janell Henderson)
The Northern Caribbean University (NCU) in collaboration with the Southern Parks and Markets Waste Management (SPM) conducted a community outreach project to...
|United Student Movement
On behalf of the USM, I am empathizing with the victims, who had to endure this ordeal. This Administration stands ready to lend our support to them (victims), as they are members of our
family.
I am condemning tonight's gruesome attack on two of our students. The incident speaks of the callous and indurate...
Digital rendering of the structure of COVID-19 (coronavirus) (PHOTO: CNN)
|Ramon Gordon
The Ministry of Health has announced that it will provide primary and secondary schools with grants, ranging from $30,000 to $50,000JMD, to procure hygiene products to help stem the spread of bacteria.
In a release, the ministry revealed...
“Oshea Dudus Hines PHOTO: Ramon D Gordon”
|Ramon D Gordon
Pow! Pow! Pow!
Imagine, but for a moment, the sound of bullets piercing through a black eldritch sky.
You’re young, just in the fourth grade, and unbeknownst to you someone has just been gunned down. You shiver, knowing something is amiss. Your mother’s screams...
|By O'Jay Cole, Journalist
Precious stones are not created under the friendliest conditions. Like diamonds that are formed under high temperatures and extreme pressure in the earth's mantle so do we grow and become luminous when we've undergone the necessary training and jump hurdles in our quest to mastery. Here lies the profile of...
|Racquel McKenzie
The Caribbean Christian Centre for the Deaf (CCCD) Work Force Development Training for Deaf Adults in Jamaica has proposed a six-month social risk management strategy geared towards behaviour change of deaf adults.
This initiative as described by Social Enterprise Officer for the Community empowerment and...
|Racquel McKenzie
It is often said that children live what they learn, well this have been proven to be factual where social media challenges are concerned.
Social media is now a huge part of many people's everyday lives and so-called Social Media Celebrities are influencing their younger viewers.
There are so many different...
|Racquel McKenzie
The Ministry of education, Youth and Culture has cautioned its stakeholders to be on the lookout for the popular social media prank called jump trip and has also advised that necessary precautions be made to stem this dangerous act.
The ministry notes that in this challenge, students encourage their peers to...
(Rueyella Blake PHOTO: Ramon D Gordon)
|Ramon D Gordon
Prompted by dissatisfaction and by dreams far greater than she’d ever realized, twenty (20) year old Rueyella Blake’s entrepreneurial prowess and commitment to self- actualization, made waves in her life, helping her accomplish things she once thought unachievable.
In...
|Ramon D Gordon
With a seemingly innate ability to wield authority and command respect, few would believe
the woeful tales which form the complex reality belonging to twenty three (23) year old Asheki Spooner.
An accomplished academic, Spooner left Northern Caribbean University (NCU) in 2017 after achieving the...
(Founder of the Gilead Lifestyle Wellness & Organic Spa in Mandeville, Dr. Wilbert Reeves)
|Ramon D Gordon
In a report, The Ministry of Health revealed that Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) account
for near 80% of deaths on the Island of Jamaica. To curb this trend, Minister with portfolio, Dr.
Christopher Tufton...
(Onlookers watch as fire fighters contend with flames that consumed Heaven’s Fesco Service Station, last Friday PHOTO: Ramon Gordon)
|Ramon Gordon
Shahaye, a student led choir from Northern Caribbean University in Mandeville, sang tunes of comfort last evening for the families affected by the blaze, which consumed sections of...
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