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Massia Bailey | Data-driven gap analysis for differentiating academic instruction: A special education best practice
The Gleaner
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August 13, 2025
EDUCATORS TODAY are navigating increasingly diverse classrooms where students’ academic, behavioural, and independent functioning abilities vary more widely than before. This is compounded by the fact that these variations often exist without...
Jamaicans in diaspora among National Awardees for 2025
Caribbean National Weekly
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August 11, 2025
Jamaicans across the diaspora are among the 141 individuals who will receive national awards this year, pledging to continue the work that earned them recognition from the country of their birth. - Advertisement - The awardees, announced by the...
PNP launches 10-pillar plan to transform Jamaica’s future
The Gleaner
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August 13, 2025
Opposition Leader Mark Golding says the People’s National Party’s (PNP) manifesto stands on 10 pillars that will build Jamaica. Golding was speaking last night at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston during the launch of the document titled...
Jamaica elections set for September 3rd
Stabroek News
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August 11, 2025
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaicans will head to the polls on September 3 to decide who will lead the country for the next five years. Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness made the long-anticipated announcement at a mass rally in Half-Way Tree, on Sunday...
Jamaica votes Sept 3… again
Jamaica Observer
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August 11, 2025
Jamaica Labour Party leader, Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness, rings the bell after announcing that Jamaicans will vote in the next general elections on September 3, 2025. Holness made the announcement at a mass rally in Half-Way-Tree, St Andrew,...
Ministry of Education adjusts school start dates for general elections
Jamaica Observer
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August 12, 2025
Education Minister Dana Morris Dixon on Friday addressing a media briefing where she revealed the performance in the PEP exams. (Photo: Naphtali Junior) KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information (MoESYI) has...
Students inspired to build personal brands using cultural identity
Jamaica Observer
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August 12, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Shanoy Harris Coombs, communications strategist and branding expert, delivered an engaging presentation to over 70 young participants, aged 12 to 18 years old, of the JN Financial Academy Summer Camp, encouraging them to...
Focus Hope's Head Start loses federal funding, leaves hundreds of children without services
WXYZ - Michigan
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August 13, 2025
DETROIT (WXYZ) — A crucial free service for hundreds of metro Detroit children is ending after Focus Hope's Head Start program was denied $6 million in federal funding. Watch Evan Sery's video report: Focus Hope's Head Start loses federal funding,...
Sean Kingston sentenced to 3.5 years for fraud scheme
The Gleaner
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August 16, 2025
FORT LAUDERDALE (AP): Rapper Sean Kingston was sentenced to three and a half years in prison Friday after being convicted of a US$1 million fraud scheme in which he leveraged his fame to dupe sellers into giving him luxury items that he then never...
Comrades gather to launch manifesto, ‘Jamaica Love’
Jamaica Observer
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August 13, 2025
People's National Party President Mark Golding addresses the audience at the party's launch of its election manifesto, 'Jamaica Love', at the Jamaica Pegasus on Tuesday, August 12, 2025. (Photo: Naphtali Junior) August 12, 2025 The hierarchy of...
PNP launches 10-pillar 'Mission Jamaica Love' manifesto
The Gleaner
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August 13, 2025
Opposition Leader Mark Golding says the just-released People's National Party manifesto stands on 10 pillars that will build Jamaica. Golding, who was speaking at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston, during the launch of the document, titled...
Black River Hospital Gets Donation from In-Service Education Department
Jamaica Information Service
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August 12, 2025
The In-service Education Department at the Black River Hospital has donated medical equipment and supplies valued at more than $1 million to the facility. The items, which were handed over during a special ceremony on August 5, comprised 12...
These are the top 50 countries Arizona’s immigrants come from
The Copper Courier - Arizona
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August 12, 2025
Over 14% of the United States population is composed of immigrants. But in reality, the vast majority of Americans today are here because of relatives who immigrated from other countries some time in the last several hundred years.And while the...
Negril police unveil community resource centre
The Gleaner
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August 16, 2025
Western Bureau: The Negril Police Station was buzzing with activity on Wednesday as the Negril Police Community Resource Centre was officially handed over to the Negril Youth Club and the wider community. The new facility, built from a converted...
The ‘Mad Man” Label – When Mental Health Struggles In Jamaica Are Met With Stigma And Silence
News Americas Now
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August 12, 2025
By Nyan Reynolds, MPH News Americas, KINGSTON, Jamaica, Tues. Aug. 12, 2025: Growing up in inner city Kingston, Jamaica, I frequently witnessed people experiencing mental health episodes – talking aloud, agitated, erratic. In my community, they...
Prodigy Cultural Arts celebrates 25 years of free youth classes for the University area
FOX 13 Tampa Bay - Florida
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The Prodigy Cultural Arts Program is celebrating 25 years of free youth classes. FOX 13 photojournalist Barry Wong has more. TAMPA - Nearly 21 years ago, Freddy Montes took a job as a guitar instructor for the University Area Community Development...
Who is Bryan Levell? All about athlete who ran 3rd-fastest Jamaican 200m behind Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake at Gyulai Istvan Memorial
Sportskeeda
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August 12, 2025
Bryan Levell is a Jamaican sprinter who recently clocked the third-fastest Jamaican run time in the 200m event at the Gyulai Istvan Memorial 2025. He clocked 19.69 seconds in the event to win the field by a convincing margin. Levell's run time saw...
Jamaica: Haitians held in police raid
Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation
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August 10, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Five Haitian nationals who were arrested during a raid at a house in the central parish of Manchester last Sunday will be sent back to their homeland. The decision was made when they appeared in court on Friday. The four...
Ayesha Curry Revives Jamaican-born mother’s cooking legacy to guide Stephen Curry’s family
The Times of India
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Ayesha Curry revives Jamaican-born mother’s cooking legacy to guide Stephen Curry’s family (Image Source: Getty Images) Ayesha Curry stood before a live crowd in Aspen this summer, sharing a story close to her heart. It was about home, food, and...
Trump welcomes new Jamaican ambassador to Washington
Caribbean Life - New York
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August 12, 2025
Jamaica’s new Ambassador to the United States, retired Major General, Antony Anderson. Photo by Derrick Scott, Jamaican Embassy Antony Anderson, a retired major general in the Jamaica Defence Force, is Jamaica’s new Ambassador to Washington. On...