And what this means is that in the face of state underfunding of education, we have education apartheid by way of lottery.
Basically, if your kid doesn't get into one of the relatively few schools that has access to significant funding in addition to what the state provides...
Jamaican author Diana McCaulay has won the 2026 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize for her novel A House for Miss Pauline, securing the £10,000 (J$2 million) award at a ceremony in London on Monday.
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The Jamaica Information Service has a new Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Giovanni Dennis! (@giovannirdennis)
Join us in giving our CEO a warm welcome in the comments!
#jisnews#stayinformed#Jamaica
World champion Oblique Seville returns to the track to win the final heat of the 100m at the JAAA/PUMA Meet #3 in 9.96 (+0.2 m/s) 😳🔥👀😳🔥👀
Seville looked very easy running that sub 10 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
When David Marriott said he had spent a career trying to efface his last work, it freed me from feeling obligated to defend every early thought as though it were final. As a scholar, your thinking should develop. 1
THE SECOND FASTEST TIME IN HISTORY!!!!!!
Masai Russell 🇺🇸 clocked a stunning national record of 12.14 seconds (+0.5) to win the women’s 100m hurdles in Xiamen.
Tobi Amusan 🇳🇬 ran 12.28 seconds to finish second, while Devynne Charlton 🇧🇸 once again improved her national record down to 12.37 seconds in third.
#XiamenDL
21.87s!!🔥
Meet Record ☑️
Shericka Jackson 🇯🇲 stormed to a big win in the women's 200m at the Xiamen Diamond League, running 21.87s (0.2)!
She finished ahead of a brilliant Shaunae Miller-Uibo 🇧🇸 who was a strong 2nd in 22.04s, followed by Anavia Battle 🇺🇸 in 22.29s.
Sha'carri Richardson 🇺🇸 placed 4th in 22.38s.
17 years ago, in the late hours of 22 May 2009, a fire broke out in a makeshift dormitory at the Armadale Juvenile Correctional Facility in St Ann, #Jamaica. As the fire spread, the wards in the grilled room remained trapped as the key could not be found. When the blaze was extinguished, 5 girls were found dead, and in the days following, 2 more succumbed. They were 15-17 years old. Lest we forget. #Caribbean
No apparent shock from colleague police on the scene. No immediate condemnatory statement from High Command distancing this incident as an outlier. No real sense of alarm other than “well the camera caught this one”.
This sort of conduct doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
Fun Fact :
Rihanna gave Drake his first #1 with "What's My Name" and it was her 8th #1 at the time.
Years later she gave him his second #1 with "Work", making it her 14th #1 overall.