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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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Damion Crawford
People’s National Party (PNP) Senator Damion Crawford came out in staunch defence of violent Dancehall lyrics, during an interview with Onstage host Winford Williams on Saturday night.
In the interview, Crawford, who has proclaimed himself the Dancehall Defender, stated that he had read studies conducted in Norway, England and in the United States, which show that there was “no causal relationship between music and crime, in particular, murder”.
“All the research – England did the research recently as it relates to the rap or trap music; America has done the research; Norway has done the research and they have shown no co-relation,” the former junior Entertainment Minister said.