'This one is special' - Mona Prep basks in TVJ's Junior Schools' Challenge Quiz victory

THE RED carpet was rolled out at the Mona Preparatory School in St Andrew yesterday for the winners of this year's staging of the Television Jamaica Junior Schools' Challenge Quiz competition.

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Bounty Hall New Testament to start piggery project

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Dorette Abrahams yields to ancestral call

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