IN JAMAICA: 12 y-o Adrian Rhoden is the 2014 Butterkist Math Champion....he was awarded a cash prize of $50,000

By AINSWORTH MORRIS Career & Education writer  Sunday, July 06, 2014    
FOR a moment Adrian Rhoden thought he was dreaming when it was announced that he was the 2014 winner of the Butterkist National Primary Schools' Mathematics Competition, but he was soon brought back to reality by the joyous screams of his teacher and coach Sandra Needham-Ellis.
Adrian Rhoden is the overall champion in the 2014 Butterkist
National Primary Schools’ Mathematics Competition.
The 12-year-old from Chetwood Memorial Primary could barely contain his excitement as he jumped for joy and declared, "I knew that I could have done it because I have been good at maths along with others subjects at school."
Needham-Ellis told Career & Education that she was confident that Rhoden would bring home the trophy for Chetwood Memorial Primary for the very first time.
"I am elated. My expectations of him were very high and I am happy that he won," she said.
Rhoden scored the highest average of 87.5 per cent of all the students who entered in the competition from 350 schools islandwide.
The youngster, who heads to Cornwall College in September, was awarded a cash prize of $50,000 at a ceremony at Knutsford Court Hotel in Kingston on June 20.
Meanwhile, Rahiem Lampart from St Aloysius Primary School; Samoy Gordon from Spaulding Primary; Arrielle Bell from St Richards Primary; and Aleigha Reynolds from Black River Primary were the second, third, fourth and fifth-place winners respectively, with averages of 86.5 per cent, 85.5 per cent, 81.5 per cent and 80.5 per cent. more

Jamaican Vannessia Stewart was awarded the prize for best overall performance at the International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI) located in Malta from a class of 33 lawyers from 25 countries

FROM a class of 33 lawyers from 25 countries, Jamaican Vannessia Stewart was awarded the prize for best overall performance at the International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI) located in Malta.
Earlier this month, Stewart, legal officer at the Maritime Authority of Jamaica (MAJ), who was a participant in IMLI's 25th master of laws programme, also graduated with distinction.
Chancellor of IMLI Koji Sekimizu presents an award
 to Vannessia Stewart on her graduation.
IMLI commenced its 25th master of laws programme in October 2013. The programme is a specialised post-graduate course in international maritime law and consists of post-graduate education in all areas of international maritime law.
"Pursuing the course at IMLI was a wonderful, although challenging experience. Challenging on account of being in the presence of such imminent international maritime law experts and arduous due to the diverse curriculum to which we were exposed. It was exciting, however, because I was part of a unique opportunity and at a special moment. Fortuitously, IMLI was celebrating its 25th anniversary and I was one of the many applicants to have been given the opportunity to be part of the institute's silver year", said Stewart.
The institution was established in 1988 by the International Maritime Organisation, the specialised agency of the United Nations with responsibility for regulating the safety and security of international shipping and prevention of pollution by ships, to help ensure that sufficient maritime law experts, with appropriate knowledge and skills, would be available particularly for developing countries and small island developing states.
The MAJ as Jamaica's maritime administration has, among its roles, obligations to provide for maritime safety and protection of the marine environment from potential damage caused by shipping activities in Jamaica's waters. "The Maritime Authority of Jamaica congratulates Stewart on her achievement. Her training will be of tremendous benefit to the organisation and to Jamaica, especially in the area of bills of lading and the liabilities surrounding the carriage of goods by sea which are a critical element of the global logistics hub framework ", said Bertrand Smith, director of legal affairs.

"Burn Fi Bun" in JAMAICA: Old man burns woman for giving him ‘bun’.....The accused, 62-year-old Dennis Miller burns his 42 y-o mate.

with Tanesha Mundle Sunday, July 06, 2014    

AN elderly old man who reportedly threw a cup of hot water on his female companion after accusing her of giving him “bun” found himself answering to a charge of assault occasioning bodily harm last week in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court.
Bun Fi Bun
The accused, 62-year-old Dennis Miller, a mechanic of Washington Gardens in Kingston, was involved in a six-year relationship with the 42-year-old higgler and dressmaker and both shared a home in Nine Miles, Bull Bay, St Thomas at the time of the alleged incident.
It is alleged that on April 22, about 4:30 pm Miller boiled a cup of water and threw it on the complainant who was sitting at the doorway of her home, then ran from the house. The complainant reportedly received burns to her face, stomach, breast, left hand and shoulder and was taken to the Kingston Public Hospital for treatment.
According to the complainant, Miller attacked her after earlier accusing her of being unfaithful to him.
However, on Friday when Miller appeared in court before Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey, he pleaded not guilty to assault occasioning bodily harm and his bail was extended for him to return to court on August 18.
Man reportedly mobbed while dressed as woman
A woman and her two daughters accused of beating their alleged gay relative and biting him on his ear told the court that they never touched him and that he was beaten by a mob after he showed up at nine-night dressed like a woman.
Patricia Bignall, 51-year-old construction worker of Cockburn Pen in Kingston, is accused of using a stone to hit her nephew on his hand while one of her 19-year-old daughters, Carlene Thompson, is accused of holding the complainant's hand for her sister, Pollyanna Osbourne, to bite the complainant on his ears.
Bignall is also accused of threatening to kill the complainant.
The trio however denied beating the complainant, claiming that he was attacked by a mob of men who saw him in his female attire.
“A him come a de people dem nine night dress up like him a woman," Bignall said. “A de nine-night me deh when me daughter dem run come tell me say him dress up like woman and dem a beat him.
“My daughters then go up to him and say, ‘yeah man, you seet we tell you fi stop gwaan like girl’, and him say that im ago f... them up,” she added.
Bignall said the complainant then wrongly told the police that they were the ones who had beaten him. more

IN JAMAICA: Historic surgery on stage-four cancer patient who is in his 60s.....Jamaica becomes third Caribbean island to undertake procedure. “The prognosis for a patient with stage-four cancer is never good,” Dr Cherian said. “But with the Sugarbaker procedure, his chances have increased tremendously.”

BY ANIKA RICHARDS Sunday Observer staff reporter richardsai@jamaicaobserver.com  Sunday, July 06, 2014    
WHEN cancer spreads to the lining of the abdomen, the disease is considered to be in its fourth stage. In fact, if a group of patients with stage-four cancer is left alone, as is, allowing the disease to progress, most will perhaps not be around in another six months.
Dr Cherian Cherian (left), general surgeon; Dr Jason
 Copeland (centre), resident in general surgery;
 and general surgeon and surgical oncologist
Dr Wesley Francis during the first ever Sugarbaker
 procedure at the Kingston Public Hospital on Friday, June 20.
This is according to general surgeon Dr Cherian Cherian, a member of a team of Jamaican doctors at the Kingston Public Hospital, who, just over two weeks ago, with the assistance of general surgeon and surgical oncologist Dr Wesley Francis from The Bahamas, performed the first ever Sugarbaker procedure on the island. According to Dr Cherian, outside of The Bahamas and The Cayman Islands, no other Caribbean country has done the procedure.
It was performed on a stage-four cancer patient who is in his 60s.
In an interview with the Jamaica Observer, Dr Cherian, admitting that the patient is not yet out of the woods, said that he is doing well and that they are taking it one step at a time.
“The prognosis for a patient with stage-four cancer is never good,” Dr Cherian said. “But with the Sugarbaker procedure, his chances have increased tremendously.”
The general surgeon explained that the Sugarbaker procedure targets malignancy from the abdominal cavity that has spread to the lining of the abdomen.
“We remove the peritoneal surface, which is the lining of the abdominal cavity; we remove any deposits that may be on organs, including the spleen,” Dr Cherian asserted. “The aim is to actually shrink the tumour mass to a volume such that chemotherapy, which is instilled in the abdomen at the typical temperature of 40 degrees Celsius, will be able to sufficiently manage in terms of oblation.
“So physically we oblate or remove, and chemically, with the use of chemotherapy, we further oblate,” Dr Cherian continued.
General surgeons (from left) Dr Cherian Cherian and
Dr Turkessa Cherrie, anaesthesiologist Suzanne McDonald,
 and Dr Wesley Francis, general surgeon and surgical oncologist,
 pose for a photograph after the surgical procedure at the
 Kingston Public Hospital on Friday, June 20.
Formally called cytoreductive surgery, which is followed by hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy, the Sugarbaker procedure also removes “any obvious disease anywhere else”. For example, if the condition reaches the liver in a limited sense, then a piece of the liver is taken out and if it’s “a bowel, but it’s any significant bowel, we will take that segment of bowel.
“So literally it is a debulking procedure, but we debulk to its maximum in order to allow chemotherapy, with the aid of a pump, to sort of bathe the organs of the peritoneal cavity for at least an hour,” Dr Cherian disclosed.
The general surgeon said that the procedure is a technical one that carries a morbidity rate of up to 25 per cent and a mortality rate close to 20 per cent. Therefore, patient selection and cancer origin are factors that must be carefully considered before such a procedure.
Dr Cherian stressed that the patient must be otherwise well, to be considered for the procedure. more

HANOVER, JAMAICA: Romantic activities by Hopewell High School continue unabated......Students damage fence, clear brush enroute to quenching sex thirst....“The students have sex off the property daily. "Sometimes you will even hear them talking about going down in the bushes to do it, even with adults hearing them clearly."

 BY HG HELPS Editor-at-Large helpsh@jamaicaobserver.com  Sunday, July 06, 2014    
THE embattled Hopewell High School in Hanover has again been placed under the microscope, this time with reports of daily sexual acts by students on properties situated close to the institution.
Apart from indulging in sexual activities, smoking of ganja is also rampant off property, the Jamaica Observer has found out. The matter appears to have got out of control and the school's management has not been able to reduce or prevent the activities.
01Even as the school year ended last Friday, fear has deepened that the new academic year will begin in September without the matter being sufficiently addressed by authorities.
“Every day these students leave the compound to engage in sexual activity,” a veteran school official told the Sunday Observer last week.
“This situation is continuing and getting worse, and nobody seems to want to do anything about it,” the official added.
Hopewell High, which opened on September 4, 2006, has been saturated in an ocean of woe in recent times, what with the suspension of its first and only principal, Joyce Irving, amid claims of widespread corruption at the co-educational institution.
But with Irving's forced suspension last January to facilitate a probe into the administration of the school, there has been no improvement in the general conduct at the institution, nor has there been an upgrade in the administrative structures that will lead to greater efficiency, members of the school's fraternity have complained to the Sunday Observer.
Documents obtained by the Sunday Observer confirm acts of irregularities that the board of directors are yet to resolve, even with the introduction of Education Officer Leonie Dunwell, who has been acting in the 58-year-old Irving's absence.
The school's property was fenced when it opened its doors, but thieves have since broken down and stolen chunks of the chain-link fence, while students have cut openings in other sections as they go on their sexual journeys.
The sex spots are varied, ranging from dense, bushy locations close to the school, to as far away as perhaps one of the most popular spots called 'The Cave', literally an underground spot structured like a small cave, close to Phase Two of the upscale Orchard Housing Scheme owned by an expatriate capitalist.
There, a mattress was found last year, presumably used by students whose testosterone levels had shot up to remarkable proportions.
“The students have sex off the property daily. Sometimes you will even hear them talking about going down in the bushes to do it, even with adults hearing them clearly. more

IN JAMAICA (ANOTHER GREAT STORY) : Cross Keys High School Students Build House For Blind Woman, 46-year-old Betsy Bennett in Manchester..."I feel good ... I don't have words to explain how I feel. I just have to thank the children."....The students raised the funds for this project from a fundraising competition.

Tamara Bailey, Gleaner Writer Published: Saturday | July 5, 2014 
Smithfield, Manchester:
They say 'seeing is believing', but for 46-year-old Betsy Bennett, who became visually impaired (being blind in one eye and the other giving minimal vision) three years ago as a result of a battle with hypertension and diabetes for over 16 years, feeling is believing. 
Forty-six-year-old visually impaired Betsy Bennett (left) stands with project coordinator and staff adviser of the Cross Keys High Student Council Rosemarie Thompson Collins, who, along with her students, will be helping Bennett finish her house.
Forty-six-year-old visually impaired Betsy Bennett (left)
stands with project coordinator and staff adviser of the
Cross Keys High Student Council Rosemarie Thompson Collins,
 who, along with her students, will be helping Bennett finish her house.
Her hands pressed upon the concrete structure, and the sound of labourers moving about gave Bennett much joy as it brought her closer to the realisation that accessibility to a new comfortable home was near.
Bennett, who currently lives in a zinc dwelling, which she says is compartmentalised into two rooms with cardboard and curtains, has been living there for approximately 17 years, during which time she started a concrete dwelling but couldn't finish it.
"A lady who took care of me from I was three months bought this land for me before she died. So for 17 years, this is where I have been. Five years ago, I started the room over there, but since my vision get poor, I had to stop do my higglering, so there was no money to continue."
Cross keys High steps in
Fortunately for Bennett, the Cross Keys High School, which undertakes major outreach projects for the less fortunate, heard about her woes and decided to finish the room she started, and additionally, build a bathroom.
"I feel good ... . I don't have words to explain how I feel. I just have to thank the children, Mr Griffiths, and Mrs Collins, the teachers. I feel very good to know that they have decided to do this for me, and I have to thank my good sister Bobbeth Byrd, Sheila, as we all know her, because she do everything for me, and she was the one that make Cross Keys come here today."
With the majority of the students on site representing the construction programme of the school, principal of the institution, Ralph Nelson, said, "We want the students to be able to participate in these projects where they see that the only way we can improve the communities and Jamaica is by each of us doing our part to improving the country."
He further said, "When students leave school, they should be able to go on to a tertiary institution and do a programme in their competency, or have a skill that they can be employed, or have their parents be so confident in their ability that they can partner and start a small business on their own. So having the students here practising what they have been taught is a great opportunity," said Nelson.
The funds raised for this project were received through the staging of a king and queen competition.
A student of the Cross Keys High School carries blocks to a location where the room and bathroom will be constructed for a visually impaired community member.
A student of the Cross Keys High School carries blocks
 to a location where the room and bathroom will be
 constructed for a visually impaired community member.
"To get the funds towards this, we held a king and queen competition. Whoever collected the most money for the boys would get the title king, and for the girls, queen. We campaigned and went around asking persons for money and, of course, we got the support we needed. My classmate, Shantel Wright, was crowned queen and I, king," said fourth-form student and member of the construction programme, Jameel Gayle. more

IN JAMAICA: Saved From Suicide - Portmore Woman Rescued By Residents after threatening to leap to her death from the Edgewater Bridge in Portmore, St Catherine,

Sheldon Williams, Staff Reporter Published: Saturday | July 5, 2014 
A WOMAN who threatened to leap to her death from the Edgewater Bridge in Portmore, St Catherine, Thursday night, was persuaded by residents to choose life. She was later brought to safety.
The Edgewater Bridge in Portmore, St Catherine. - File
The Edgewater Bridge in Portmore, St Catherine. - File
An eyewitness told The Gleaner that at about 9 p.m. the woman was seen sitting on pipes below the bridge with her attention fixated on the crocodile-infested water beneath.
Passers-by realised that she appeared agitated and enquired why she was beneath the bridge. It was soon revealed that she wanted to end her own life.
As news spread about the woman's intention, more residents soon converged on the bridge and attempted to talk her down. "Don't jump, Don't jump. Every single person was telling her not to jump which is surprising because you know how Jamaican people are," Amandare counted to The Gleaner.
Eyewitnesses also said the woman's children were brought to the scene so she could see them as a means of dissuading her from jumping.
After much encouragement, the woman stood up and was grabbed by a male onlooker who had himself risked falling to bring her to safety.
The woman was then assisted to a waiting police vehicle and taken away.
To meet with councillor
Councillor for Edgewater Alrick Campbell told The Gleaner that he would meet with the woman's family tomorrow (Sunday) but refused to elaborate on the circumstances that could have led the woman to consider taking her own life.
"I am aware, but I won't state because I haven't gone to the family as yet. I am not in the position to state the reasons but I just want to implore anyone who is under stress to not contemplate taking their own life," he said. more

IN JAMAICA: Omar Ford, a student of Papine High School in St Andrew tops Marley essay contest

Saturday, July 05, 2014   
OMAR Ford, 16, was named the winner of the inaugural Rita Marley Foundation Essay Competition held at the Bob Marley Museum on Hope Road, St Andrew, on Wednesday.
A student of Papine High School in St Andrew, Ford's essay, entitled Bob Marley, His Music and Message, topped a field of nearly 1,000 entries. The competition was held among Papine High School, Haile Selassie High School in Kingston, Marcus Garvey Technical High School in St Ann, and Bob Marley Primary and Junior High School in St Ann.
Rita Marley, widow of reggae icon Bob Marley, said she was pleased by the number of entrants in the competition's first year.
Rita Marley. At right: Omar Ford, winner of the inaugural
Rita Marley Foundation Essay Competition
"I am overjoyed by the positive response from the youth as well as the interest shown from persons in Jamaica and all over the world. This was the first essay competition organised by the Rita Marley Foundation and almost 1,000 essays were submitted. It is so wonderful," she told the Jamaica Observer.
Marley, who was also a member of her husband's harmony trio The I-Three, said the idea of an essay competition came about as a means to encourage students to read and write well.
"Education is the key to open all doors. We are preparing them to open doors 'cause there are more questions than answers," she said.
Marley said due to the success of the inaugural staging, next year the competition will be held on a national level.
The competition saw second place going to Tia Green (Haile Selassie High School); third to Damain Walker (Bob Marley Primary and Junior High School) and fourth place to Suwayne Josephs. The winners received trophies, medals and certificates.
The winning essay will be published in the upcoming issue of Harambe (the Rita Marley Foundation newsletter).
In addition to Marley, the judges were Dr Kadamawe Knife (lecturer at the University of the West Indies); Dr Donna Hope-Marquis (director of the Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of the West Indies); Dr Raymond Hitchins (ethnomusicologist, University of the West-Indies); and Dr Leahcim Semaj (change consultant, Job Bank).

22-year-old Brazilian star, Neymar Injured In Brazil Win, Reportedly Taken To Hospital.....Neymar OUT of World Cup with broken bone in his back after suffering injury in Brazil's quarter-final victory over Colombia

NEYMAR
Neymar on da stretcher
Brazil's win over Colombia may have come at a high cost: Neymar.
The superstar playmaker suffered an apparent back injury late in the quarterfinal clash at Estadio Castelao in Fortaleza on Friday. In the 87th minute, Colombia's Juan Camilo Zuniga drove his right knee into Neymar's lower back while leaping to attempt to head the ball. The Brazil forward dropped to the field in pain after the contact. The 22-year-old star was soon loaded onto a stretcher and taken immediately down the tunnel away from the field.
Cynical: With the ball nowhere near Juan Zuniga smashes his knee into the lower part of Neymar's backNot long after the final whistle sounded on Brazil's 2-1 win, ESPN's post-game coverage returned to Fortaleza for a report from the commentators who had called the action.
"A bit of news just starting to reach us is that Neymar has been taken straight to hospital and the Brazilian media are saying it doesn't look good at the moment," ESPN commentator Ian Darke said. "He was taken off on a stretcher."
ESPN soccer columnist Jeff Carlisle also reported he had heard that Neymar had been taken to a hospital. more

Jamaican Gay Unions? Lisa Hanna Says Jamaica Not Ready For Same-Sex Families Despite Int'l Redefinition.....HRC urging them to recognise that families are becoming more sexually, ethnically, racially, religiously and stylistically diverse than generations ago.

Anastasia Cunningham, News Coordinator Gleaner Published: Friday | July 4, 2014
With the paradigm shift from what had once traditionally been held as a family, discussions are now taking place on the international front to move the world towards recognising same-sex unions as part of the normal, modern family make-up.
Minister of Youth Lisa Hanna.
Lisa Hanna, Minister of Youth & Culture
Organisations such as the International Human Rights Commission have been in discussions with countries like Jamaica, urging them to recognise that families are becoming more sexually, ethnically, racially, religiously and stylistically diverse than generations ago.
In fact, already several countries - including the United Kingdom and some states in the United States - now legally recognise same-sex marriages.
However, without hesitation, Minister of Youth and Culture Lisa Hanna declared that Jamaica is far from ready to accept the international proposal of the redefinition of family.
"Some of the interesting things coming out of the new reports of the International Human Rights Commission, and what their policies are looking at, have to do with the traditional family and what the traditional family looks like or shouldn't look like and redefining the traditional family, as we know it," Hanna stated during a Gleaner Editors' Forum on Wednesday.
"However, at this stage, Jamaica is not ready for this new definition of family. That is going to take a tremendous amount of cultural change."
The culture minister was quick to point out, however, that "with the dialogue taking place internationally, Jamaica cannot afford to get behind the eight ball, and we cannot afford to be seen as not living up to our obligations … . Whether or not we feel that we will be bludgeoned into acquiescence, we will have to have a place at the table."
Hanna added: "It is going to be a very interesting time for international discussions going forward, both in terms of child rights and human rights, and I think - certainly from where we have to sit as policymakers - it almost seems as if … we are going to have to take very deliberate decisions as to how we proceed." more

Murder of former Jamaican policeman Courtney Manning, who was vacationing in the island, has left his family in the United States in shock

Thursday, July 03, 2014    
MONDAY night's murder of former Jamaican policeman Courtney Manning, who was vacationing in the island, has left his family in the United States in shock, according to a family friend.
The 45-year-old former narcotics policeman was found dead in a Nissan Tiida motor car at Caymanas Bay, located off the Mandela Highway in St Catherine. He had a bullet wound to the head, police said.
The car was reportedly seen parked for a long time by residents who called the cops and upon their arrival Manning's body was found inside the vehicle.
Manning, 45, was said to be a dedicated policeman during his time at the Narcotics Branch.
"His death has really come as a shock and has hurt us hard. He was a good man," one of his former colleagues told the Jamaica Observer yesterday.
Detectives from the St Catherine South Division are probing the murder of the ex-policeman but were yesterday unable to say what leads they were following.
Yesterday, a family friend who resides in the United States said he knew the ex-policeman for about 15 years before he emigrated to the United States with his family, started the Ebenezer Church in the Bronx, New York, before relocating to Altanta, Georgia where he worked as a schoolteacher.
The family friend, who spoke highly of the former Jamaican policeman, said it was usual for him to visit Jamaica at this time of year.

Southwest makes inaugural flight to Jamaica...... Island is first international destination for US carrier....entry of Southwest into Jamaica will provide a "tremendous boost for our tourism".

Thursday, July 03, 2014  
MINISTER of Tourism Dr Wykeham McNeill led a team of tourism officials and several representatives from the Montego Bay business community in welcoming the inaugural non-stop international flight from America's largest carrier, Southwest Airlines, to the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay.
Minister of Tourism and Entertainment Dr Wykeham McNeill (right)
 is presented with a replica of a Southwest Airlines airplane by
 Captain Mark Schultz, during a welcome reception held on
Tuesday at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay to
 welcome the carrier’s inaugural flight to Jamaica.
The flight, from Baltimore/Washington International Airport, which touched down at about 1:00 pm on Tuesday, was the first of three for the day and ushered in the start of daily non-stop service from three major hubs in the United States to Jamaica.
There will be two flights daily from Baltimore/Washington into Montego Bay. The airline will also operate daily service out of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International and Orlando's International airports.
McNeill said the entry of Southwest into Jamaica will provide a "tremendous boost for our tourism".
"Southwest is an airline that has had tremendous success. It's the largest domestic airline in the United States and goes to almost every nook and cranny ...to almost every state in the US...so you are able to get persons out of all parts of the United States. Coming to Jamaica is a tremendous boost for our tourism because it opens up the entire US to their fantastic service and their airlines rewards programmes," McNeill said.
He noted that Southwest's entry into Jamaica is a "huge accomplishment" which spoke to the island's amazing attractions and strategic positioning in world tourism today. more

IN JAMAICA: School bag $1.8 million in Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica’s (PCJ) energy competition....winners of its 2014 Schools Energy Programme Competition. Westwood High are winners of the 13-15 age category

 Wednesday, July 02, 2014    
THE Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) has awarded cash prizes valued at $1.8 million to the winners of its 2014 Schools Energy Programme Competition.
The initiative, which is the PCJ's major vehicle for promoting energy education among Jamaica's youth, attracted primary and high school students from 75 institutions across the country for the 2013-14 school year.
GIRL POWER: Westwood High, winners of the 13-15 age
group category of the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica’s
(PCJ) Schools Energy Programme Science Competition
accept their trophy from the Minister of State in the Ministry
 of Science, Technology, Energy & Mining, Julian Robinson.
The winning team of (from left) Makalia McBean, Deena Dunkley,
 Ashe-Monique Lewis and Mishka Chung (absent) won
$200,000 cash from Wigton Windfarm. Sharing in the
 moment is Abigail Cannigan, the team’s teacher.
They were exposed to a variety of energy-related issues including energy efficiency, conservation and alternative energy sources as well as the use of energy efficient products, technologies and practices.
In addition, they participated in guided tours of local entities involved in energy production including the Petrojam Refinery in Kingston, Wigton Windfarm in Manchester and the JPS hydro plant in St Ann.
"As the government entity with responsibility for public education on energy issues, the PCJ places special emphasis on reaching the nation's youth," said Winston Watson, the PCJ's acting group managing director.
"We have adopted this strategy in order to help our young people to develop an understanding of the challenges our country faces because of high energy costs. This, in turn, should help them to develop lifetime habits and practices that involve energy conservation," he added.
Students from participating schools were invited to submit entries in the PCJ's essay, science and poster competitions. In each of the categories, entrants were challenged to offer solutions to some of the critical energy issues currently confronting the country's decision-makers. more
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IN JAMAICA: Tickets Available Islandwide....Catherine Hall, Montego Bay, comes alive from July 13 to 19 for the 22nd staging of Reggae Sumfest....Sean Paul, songbird Tessanne Chin, reggae crooner Freddie McGregor, Sanchez, Chronixx, Jah Cure and many others..

Published: Tuesday | July 1, 2014
Ticket locations to the 'Greatest Reggae Show on Earth' are open islandwide. Reggae Sumfest offers tickets based on considerations of your budget, so you can choose from daily admission (general or VIP) presold, to a season band which includes all the days or just the weekend of the event.
Jah Cure
Jah Cure
The outlets include Pier 1 and Fontana Pharmacy in Montego Bay, Heaven's Texaco in Mandeville, Rubicon Investments Limited in Christiana and the Texaco at Mary Brown's Corner and York Pharmacy in Kingston.
Catherine Hall, Montego Bay, comes alive from July 13 to 19 for the 22nd staging of Reggae Sumfest. There will be performances by rapper Wiz Khalifa, hip-hop artistes Future and Jason Derulo, dancehall superstar Sean Paul, songbird Tessanne Chin, reggae crooner Freddie McGregor, Sanchez, Chronixx, Jah Cure and many others.

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It Took Studying 25 Million Kids To Begin To Undo The Damage Caused By 1 Doctor.....Dr. Andrew Wakefield claims link between autism and vaccines

Dr. Andrew Wakefield
Once upon a time, a scientist named Dr. Andrew Wakefield published in the medical journal The Lancet that he had discovered a link between autism and vaccines. After years of controversy and making parents mistrust vaccines, along with collecting $674,000 from lawyers who would benefit from suing vaccine makers, it was discovered he had made the whole thing up. The Lancet publicly apologized and reported that further investigation led to the discovery that he had fabricatedeverything.
In the intervening years, millions have been spent on studying this further to see if there was anything that could connect autism and vaccines. This is what they found. more