SHOCK AND grief wrenched through the Manchester capital yesterday as residents woke up to news that four people - all in their 20s - died in an early-morning traffic crash.
The four died about 4 a.m. after the Mazda Rx motor car in which they were travelling crashed into a perimeter wall of the Northern Caribbean University in Mandeville immediately bursting into flames.
Firefighters who were...
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NCU takes top two spots at Microsoft's Imagine Cup
Joseph McKinson (centre), country manager, Microsoft Jamaica Inc, receives a demonstration of the Electronic School Computer Aid for Primary Education (eSCAPE) from Northern Caribbean University's (NCU's) Team Educ.8 (from left) Trevor Williams, Trecia Thompson, Warren Robinson and Caray McKenzie.
Geared at improving literacy in primary schools,...
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South Coast Area chairman and vice-president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), Judy Schoenbein, is stressing the importance of Jamaicans cherishing and protecting the tourism industry.
Delivering the keynote address at the Manchester Chamber of Commerce's monthly meeting at the Golf View Hotel in Mandeville last week, Schoenbein argued that tourism was a renewable export which, if used...
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May 20, 2010.
The second leg of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission Festival of Foods was staged at the Kirkvine Sports Club in Manchester last Thursday with more than 200 entries prepared by students and amateur chefs from the parishes of Manchester, Clarendon and St Elizabeth. The culinary teams from the BB Coke High School and Knox College dominated the festival and took home several gold medals...
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Lanisia Rhoden, 2009 Miss Manchester Festival Queen, crowns her successor, Johnnel Smith. They are flanked by first runner-up Georgie-Ann Montaque (left) and Natalie Daley, second runner-up. - Photo by JCDC
Less than halfway into the coronation show of the 2010 Miss Manchester Festival Queen at the Cecil Charlton Hall in Mandeville last Saturday, 22-year-old university graduate, Johnnel Smith,...
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