@JamaicaObserver Ministry should demand that those students be supported with an individualized study plan prepared to take with them to their next schools. Least you are expected to do is help the students to improve, not cast shame.
@djmillerJA Why’re journalist so resistant to being critiqued?! Trained communication professionals— omg, present the work you all do at a higher quality, that is the critique on the piece. Government messed up managing the communication on this. Separate observations.
I think one of our biggest problems as a country is that we continue to hold Ministers accountable for things the management of these entities should be held accountable for. Ministers are easy targets, yet we wonder why when a minister is changed, the problem persists.
On Thursday, April 16, the Manchester Health Department through its Foot Care Unit hosted a Diabetic Foot Care event, highlighting the importance of prevention, early detection, and proper foot care for persons living with diabetes.
@djmillerJA@karendmadden This is all pretentious correctness. Yes, the child’s identity should be protected.. That should mean not publishing ANY information that can be used to deduced their identity otherwise not publishing the name is performative nonsense.
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Dave Kelly wrote Browning for his girlfriend; Buju recorded it.
Badman dem did tink him a sing bout di gun 'Brownin'; that plus backlash from darkskin women made them go back in the studio to record ' Black Woman'
"Persons wishing to assist Shanice Laird may donate to GoFundMe account https://t.co/K4V0XaN45A or Scotiabank, account number 000300766 in the name of her cousin Kadian Davidson."
My wife just showed me some of the Frida baby ads...
Some of the most vile shit I've ever seen.
Won't be buying anything from them ever again.
Absolutely disgusting.
Yes they are real. WTF.
Frida Baby has been sexualizing babies (and mothers) for YEARS.
Their recent scandal is only an escalation of the norm.
Here’s a complete thread of what we’ve uncovered so far…
Hello Kyle,
This is false news. Please note that not even the source that you have posted in this tweet, directly confirms your claim.
It is important to note that the country’s sole oil refinery, Petrojam, a 100%-owned government-owned entity, has never exported LPG.
Similarly, feedback from our private sector counterparts in the oil and gas sector shows that they also do not export LPG.
Misinformation during this time might spark unnecessary fear and anxiety.
The Government of Jamaica therefore continues to remind the public, especially persons on social media, to seek information from credible news sources, including the Jamaica Information Service.
Have you ever noticed that the worst people keep getting promoted?
You’re sitting in a meeting thinking, How is this person in charge?
That’s not bad luck. That’s a system working exactly as intended.
Here’s the truth:
A lot of workplaces don’t promote the most capable people; they promote the least threatening ones.
The people who move up fastest aren’t always driving results.
They are the ones who keep leadership comfortable.
- They don’t challenge decisions.
- They don’t surface problems too clearly.
- They make things feel calm, even when nothing is actually improving.
Real competence creates friction.
When you are genuinely good at your job, you expose gaps, weak processes, bad decisions, and poor leadership.
And that makes people above you uncomfortable.
So instead of developing strong leaders, many organizations quietly sideline them.
What gets rewarded instead is loyalty, predictability, and the ability to manage optics.
Once that pattern starts, every layer protects the one above it.
Promotions stop being about skill and start being about safety.
And over time, the people doing the real work either burn out from carrying everyone else or they leave.
- That’s how mediocrity becomes a culture.
- That’s why leadership can feel hollow.
- And that’s why, when you look around and wonder why so many managers seem unqualified, the answer isn’t random.
It’s structural.
They didn’t fail upward by accident.
They were rewarded for not rocking the boat.
#Jamaicans! Mawgaman is back! Golfview Hotel in Mandeville is hosting my "Fireside Chat" 6 pm TOMORROW (Tuesday). I'll be talking #Hurricane#MELISSA—what happened & what we learned. I'll show an intense 7-min video, & I'll take questions, too. Excited to meet y'all. 👊