Afternoon, only a few hours after authorities confirmed they believe a copilot deliberately flew the plane into the mountain. Translator the copilot manipulates the buttons of the flight Monitoring System for the descent of the aircraft. It can only be deliberate. The families were taken here to seynelesalpes and then they were taken to the mountaintop two miles away where they can see the Mountain Range where the plane crashed. There was a makeshift monument there and they stopped in a moment of silence. You can see many of them had tears in their eyes. They were there to pay respects to their relatives, but at the same time they knew most likely one man, the copilot a german first officer did deliberately fly that plane into the mountain taking 150 lives. Now they were taken away from the crash scene with the knowledge also that their relatives knew exactly what was happening until the last moments the audio recordings, we understand contain the screaming and the crying of the passen
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TWO days after the start of the new academic year some schools in Waterhouse and Olympic Gardens, St Andrew, were forced to send home students following gang violence which led to the murder of si.
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Prime Minister and West Central St. Andrew Member of Parliament, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, who visited students at Penwood High School, offered them words of encouragement and a distributed tablet computers to youngsters without devices to assist in their preparations.
Prime Minister Holness noted the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), which administers the exams, has indicated that consideration will be given to the psychosocial effect of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the students, in the grading process.
Eleventh grade Penwood High student, Ruth-Ann Sullivan, who will be sitting CXC/CSEC Human and Social Biology and Biology, and City and Guilds Mathematics and English, said although she was nervous about taking the exams, the session was helpful.
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The Prime Minister was speaking on Saturday (June 26) while visiting students at Penwood High School in Kingston who participated in Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC)/Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) super classes, in preparation for the regional external tests slated to commence on June 28.
Mr. Holness noted that the decision to fully resume physical classroom activities will be driven by the public health science and established safety protocols.
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says it is anticipated that, come August, Jamaica should receive additional supplies of coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines.
He said these would enable more persons to be vaccinated, particularly those categorised in priority groups.