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The Ministry of Education has not turned a blind eye to the videos circulating on social media showing school children fighting.In fact, Chief Education Officer Dr Ramona Archer-Bradshaw told Barbados TODAY that the ministry was aware and concerned about the scenes captured on video and circulated via social media and has called for a total societal approach to arresting the problem.Dr Archer-Bradshaw, said the ministry continues to roll out a series of programmes across the schools to tackle th...

Highlights of MT22 - Read our editorials from Week 3 of MT22 from our Editor-in-Chiefs Dom and Jason, and Associate Editors, Anna and Blane.

One student said that they have been told multiple times that we are the guinea pigs for this new system

The back and forth, uncertainty and frustration that students, teachers, ancillary staff and parents have been experiencing due to the ongoing saga at Lawrence T. Gay Memorial School have to come to an end.Over the years, students and teachers have complained of a pungent, gaseous smell that was causing them headaches, burning throat sensations, burning eyes and/or itchy skin.The school problems go back years. In recent times, the school was closed in 2019. Then in January 2020, just before the ...

Jury trials slated for the Home Circuit Court in Kingston continue to be dogged by low juror turnouts with the latest figures showing that, of the 1,500 Jamaicans summoned for duty during the ...

British society has been subject to some far-reaching changes, the most important of which is the recognition of merit over birth

On Tuesday, an altercation between two male students at the Samuel Jackman Prescod Institute of Technology (SJPI) left one of them with stab wounds to his abdomen and neck.It was another instance of violence within this island’s educational institutions.In many situations, scenes of violence are captured on video and circulated via social media. We see them, we watch them and some even share them. But when the unimaginable happens, we all join the chorus of condemnation.In January 2020, a 14-y...

SENIOR Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Jeremy Taylor, KC, says that office is "eagerly" anticipating the ruling of the Appeals Court on the first case brought by prosecutors since the law w...

Senior Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Jeremy Taylor has expressed concern that murder cases dominate the list of matters to be dealt with by the Supreme Court this term. Speaking during the op...

The Oxford student is announcing Jason Chau and Dominic Enright as the two new Editors-in-Chief for Michaelmas Term 2022.