WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President La Sonja Harrison says the association is waiting patiently to see the revised Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) Bill before they are tabled, following assurances from Education Minister Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon that the Government has accepted and acted on several of the teachers’ concerns. Morris Dixon said the Government’s legal teams are now finalising the amendments after she personally reviewed the JTA’s submission.

WESTERN BUREAU: Education Minister Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon has dismissed concerns that there is a need to remove what some have labelled ‘political influence’ from school boards. According to Morris Dixon, the key issue should be the qualifications and experience of board members and chairpersons. “I wouldn’t call it that [political influence]. I am ambivalent to a certain extent in terms of who nominates the chair on the board. I think the key thing is the qualification of the persons and their experience,” Morris Dixon said.

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President La Sonja Harrison says she cannot change, declaring that she will continue to challenge the status quo and ask uncomfortable questions on behalf of teachers, even as she acknowledges that her outspoken approach has come at a cost. “I can’t change who I am. I really try not to be a hypocrite, I am a disruptor of the status quo,” Harrison said while addressing the eighth session of the 62nd JTA Conference, which was also attended by Education Minister Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon on Wednesday.

WESTERN BUREAU: Ahead of the start of the September school term, Education Minister Dr Dana Morris Dixon is urging school administrators to ensure that students obey stipulated dress and grooming guidelines, while also imploring parents to encourage their children to follow the rules set by their schools.

WESTERN BUREAU: Before Beverley Feare could prepare her students for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations, she first had to find them. Hurricane Melissa had torn through the communities served by Maud McLeod High School in eastern Westmoreland, damaging the school, displacing families, and cutting communication with students at a critical point in their preparation for the examinations.

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SINGAPORE — An assistant store manager at a jewellery shop stole 24 pieces of gold jewellery worth over $216,000 from his workplace, replacing six of them with copies from online platform Taobao.Darren Wai Mun Jun, 31, who was then working for CHJ Singapore Jewel in Northpoint Drive, near Yishun Central 1, replaced the remaining 18 pieces with stock items from the store’s inventory.After that, he pawned all 24 pieces but only got more than $131,000 in cash for them. He used the money to gamble and to settle his debts.On Aug 20, he was sentenced to two years, four months and two weeks’ jail after pleading guilty to two counts of theft and one count of dealing with the benefits of his criminal conduct.The authorities have seized 18 pieces of the stolen jewellery from pawnshops, and he has made no restitution.Deputy Public Prosecutor Teng Yin Hang told the court that Wai started working for CHJ in September 2025.Two months later, he hatched a plan to replace the jewellery from the store with copies from Taobao.The DPP said Wai bought many pieces of jewellery from the online platform.

Tuas Power has won the right to build, own and operate a new turbine, which will raise Singapore's electricity generation capacity by December 2031.The upcoming hydrogen-ready combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) will have a 670MW capacity and can power about 1.2 million 4-room HDB flats for a year.This will add to the more than 20 CCGTs in the power system today, currently powered by natural gas, said the Energy Market Authority (EMA) on Thursday (Aug 20).By 2031, there will be five hydrogen-compatible CCGTs, or under development, including the one to be built by Tuas Power.CCGTs are currently the most efficient thermal generation units available to meet Singapore's demand. In such units, natural gas and air combust in a gas-fired power plant, causing its turbine to rotate and generate electricity. Steam, a by-product, rotates a second turbine to generate more electricity in CCGTs.The EMA announcement follows an earlier request in April for energy companies to build up to three new hydrogen-compatible power plants in 2031 and 2032 to help meet Singapore's electricity needs.

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Speaking at the «Hara Bhara Swaraj: A Tribute to Rajiv Gandhi's Vision» programme, the Gandhi Scion described the ideological contest in India as a deeper struggle over how people understand themselves, freedom and their place in society. The Congress leader also drew a distinction between the RSS's worldview and Mahatma Gandhi's idea of 'Swaraj', saying no organisation or individual could claim to know what is true for another person.

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From Debutants to a Nation’s Pride The Scorchers have returned home as far more than WAFCON runners up. They have returned as history makers and brought eternal joy to the Warm Heart of Africa. Prior to this tournament, Malawi had never appeared at the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON). Now, after their first appearance, […] The post History has been Scorched! A tale about Malawi Scorchers; The dark horse of 2026 WAFCON appeared first on Malawi News | Breaking News, Politics, Business & Sports | Nyasa Times.

Silver Strikers Ladies have touched down in Gaborone as they eye a maiden charge towards the CAF Women’s Champions League — and it’s a Friday date with Mozambique’s Costa do Sol that kicks things off. The Malawian champions swapped Kamuzu International for Sir Seretse Khama International on Wednesday, landing in Botswana with the COSAFA qualifiers […] The post Silver Strikers Ladies set for Costa do Sol test as COSAFA qualifiers begin appeared first on Malawi News | Breaking News, Politics, Business & Sports | Nyasa Times.

Malawi is entering yet another dark chapter in its electricity crisis. The much-touted Mozambique-Malawi Interconnection Project, meant to inject urgently needed power into the national grid, has missed its third commissioning deadline. The latest promise — that the connection would be operational by the end of July — has passed without a single megawatt flowing […] The post Malawi’s power crisis deepens as Mozambique lifeline misses third deadline appeared first on Malawi News | Breaking News, Politics, Business & Sports | Nyasa Times.

The former chairs of a panel that advises the federal government on endangered wildlife have published an open letter highlighting concerns over proposed changes to the Species At Risk Act, which they say could lead to the «wilful extinction» of endangered species in Canada.

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