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After 60 years, dedicated worker receives Medal of Appreciation
Published: Saturday | May 23, 2009
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After over 60 years of ardent and dedicated service to both primary and adult education in Jamaica, 87-year-old Yolande Jackson still finds time to teach.
Although Jackson said goodbye to the classroom many years ago, she has not been able to turn her back on the numerous students who still look to her for knowledge.
She admits that having been the child of two educators and the widow of a vice-principal, teaching was undoubtedly in her blood.
“They always find me and I can’t say no, I still assist them,” she said. “Parents will often come to me and ask me to help their children in certain areas and I will have classes with them at my home,” she told The Gleaner.
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May 23 2009
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Published: Sunday | April 19, 2009
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Obama promises much
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A new day in the relationship among the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean dawned on Friday when the Fifth Summit of the Americas began in Trinidad and Tobago.
US President Barack Obama on Friday signalled his intention to start this improved relationship with a declaration of his administration’s commitment to “renew and sustain a broader partnership between the United States and the hemisphere”.
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GOVERNMENT IS set to embark on a major recruitment drive for district constables (DCs) this year.
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Apr 21 2009
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Published: Sunday | April 19, 2009
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In the wake of a weakened banana industry, farmers are being retrained.
Workshops feature career counselling, motivational speeches and try-a-skill exercises where participants engage in housekeeping, construction and agricultural applications.
Vocational and skills training is being provided through existing programmes at HEART Trust/NTA and partner institutions for former farmers who are in need of new areas of earning.
The 15-month project began in October 2008 and will end in December 2009, at a cost of 354,700 euros, funded by the European Union and HEART Trust/NTA.
Participants will be required to pass a grade-nine level test that will concentrate on general knowledge, practical mathematics and English language.
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Apr 21 2009
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This is about 15 minutes long, but it is totally worth watching…..
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BOB MARLEY
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(Robert Nesta Marley)
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1945 - 1981
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JAMAICAN LEGEND
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BOB MARLEY
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JULIAN MARLEY
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(son of Bob Marley)
Alpha Boys Home-Jamaica (As seen on PBS)
Mar 28 2009
Posted: under "DID YOU KNOW".
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The term black aviation describes a historical fact: For the first half-century of powered flight, blacks flew in segregated circumstances. The story of black aviation is one of breakthroughs against restrictions. First, such isolated pioneers as Bessie Coleman overcame the entrenched discrimination of the time. Coleman’s brief career as a stunt pilot inspired a generation of black youth. Even so, at the time of Lindbergh’s historic flight to Paris in 1927, only a few blacks had become aviators. Racial prejudice excluded most.
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In the 1930s African Americans formed flying clubs to promote aviation in the black community. The clubs made it possible for African Americans to participate in aviation: Their members trained pilots and mechanics and promoted aviation through publications, lectures, and even air “circuses.” These air shows drew the curious with promises of “aerial acrobatics, rolls, turns, spins, ribbon cutting, crazy flying.” In 1933 and 1934 the long-distance flights of C. Alfred Anderson and Dr. Albert E. Forsythe displayed both flyers’ skills while appealing for equality in aviation. In Los Angeles William J. Powell set up the Bessie Coleman Aero Club and wrote his visionary book Black Wings, which urged black youth to choose careers in aviation. In Chicago Cornelius R. Coffey established the Coffey School of Aeronautics, served as the first president of the National Airmen’s Association, and built an airstrip in an African American community. Both Powell and Coffey recognized that blacks would need technical skills to advance in aviation.
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Feb 04 2009