http://news.ncu.edu.jm/default.aspxRSS Feedhttp://news.ncu.edu.jm/news_item.aspx?NewsID=4739The room in Lake Placid, New York, was crowded with athletes, friends, and family. Weary yet anxious Ironman racers waited as certified times were given and qualifiers’ names were announced. Alicia Trott, an Adventist young adult from Topsham, Maine, had never participated in a full Ironman but managed to turn in a personal best at 11 hours 47 minutes at the July 22, 2012, event. Though tired, Alicia was exhilarated, excited. And prepared with a credit card—in case she actually qualified for the Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.2013-05-21T10:40:45.0000000-05:00http://news.ncu.edu.jm/news_item.aspx?NewsID=4738GOVERNMENT backbencher Mikael Phillips wants the Ministry of Education to accelerate the placement of trained teachers in basic schools.2013-05-21T09:24:49.0000000-05:00http://news.ncu.edu.jm/news_item.aspx?NewsID=4737Some universities select students whom they feel show great promise of future success Some politicians choose a cause, not based on conviction, but which they believe will bring them the success in power acquisition they desire. 2013-05-20T17:47:47.0000000-05:00http://news.ncu.edu.jm/news_item.aspx?NewsID=4736Governor-General His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen on Wednesday, May 15, launched a Summer of Service (SOS) competition under the umbrella of his ‘I Believe’ Initiative (IBI) with the aim of increasing the spirit of volunteerism in youth, while offering them an opportunity to pursue their academic goals. 2013-05-20T11:35:10.0000000-05:00http://news.ncu.edu.jm/news_item.aspx?NewsID=4735I’ve been thinking a lot about names. It started while autographing books, and realizing that one cannot assume to know how to spell today’s most common names. Parents give their children some of the oddest names; those that are made up (Michandraqueeta), signs of the times (Hashtag), fruit (Apple), to memorialize a special person (Tallulah), or the weather (Hurricane). This onomastic inventiveness may be irksome to some observers because apostrophes are placed where none is needed or because of ridiculous, unpronounceable symbols.2013-05-20T11:26:44.0000000-05:00http://news.ncu.edu.jm/news_item.aspx?NewsID=4734Northern Caribbean University’s (NCU) researchers were recently considered by International Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN) as having the most promising business plan at the PFAN competition held in San Pedro, Honduras. The team led by the Dean of College of Natural and Applied Sciences, Dr. Vincent Wright, was shortlisted for the finals in the competition to receive funding for their business plan. The NCU contingent, though tight-lipped on the business plan, are confident that their proposal will improve food security both locally and regionally. 2013-05-20T11:17:58.0000000-05:00http://news.ncu.edu.jm/news_item.aspx?NewsID=4733Week in Review is a compilation of news and events at Northern Caribbean University. 2013-05-19T17:18:27.0000000-05:00http://news.ncu.edu.jm/news_item.aspx?NewsID=4732Two years ago, radio evangelist Harold Camping was predicting the end of the world. Now, longtime aides say his false predictions are likely to result in the end of his California-based Family Radio ministry.2013-05-19T16:28:57.0000000-05:00http://news.ncu.edu.jm/news_item.aspx?NewsID=4731Seventh-day Adventist church officials in Denmark voted this week to halt the ordination of all new ministers until the General Conference Session in July 2015. 2013-05-19T15:55:41.0000000-05:00http://news.ncu.edu.jm/news_item.aspx?NewsID=4730I often think about the many people who enter my sphere of influence in a typical week. I think of the talented people who share my office space. It’s been my extreme good fortune to work with creative people who are not only friends, but fellow believers.2013-05-19T12:28:54.0000000-05:00http://news.ncu.edu.jm/news_item.aspx?NewsID=4729How do we find the gospel glistening in a falling teardrop? Given that the word “gospel” comes from the Greek euaggelion, meaning “good news,” one may quite justifiably ask: “What’s the crying for if you’ve got the good news?” Doesn’t the gospel mean that when we accept Christ, we become “new creations,” experience “joy unspeakable and full of glory,” and “live happily ever after”? And indeed it does. But that didn’t stop Jesus from weeping (John 11:35). Remember?2013-05-19T12:23:55.0000000-05:00http://news.ncu.edu.jm/news_item.aspx?NewsID=4727Seventh-day Adventist medical experts and health advocates want to better understand and share the ministry of healing they say the church is called to embrace. Six hundred of them met in Prague last month for the first European Health Conference.2013-05-18T23:49:06.0000000-05:00http://news.ncu.edu.jm/news_item.aspx?NewsID=4726This year’s report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has Seventh-day Adventist human rights experts concerned over growing state-sponsored or condoned intolerance toward minority faith groups worldwide.2013-05-18T23:48:54.0000000-05:00http://news.ncu.edu.jm/news_item.aspx?NewsID=4725"Who can find a virtuous woman, for her price is far above rubies." This is the standard to which some young ladies aspired as they participated in the launching of the Girls of Eloquence, Morals and Standards Emerging into Mature Sisters – GEMS Ministry at the New Haven Seventh Day Adventist Church on Sabbath, April 13, 2013.2013-05-18T23:48:41.0000000-05:00http://news.ncu.edu.jm/news_item.aspx?NewsID=4724More than three days after disappearing in Kiev, Ukraine, a Seventh-day Adventist health worker from Yakima, Washington, remains missing, local church officials said Friday, May 17, 2013. Search efforts continue and are intensifying.2013-05-17T12:21:24.0000000-05:00http://news.ncu.edu.jm/news_item.aspx?NewsID=4723More than 2,000 Seventh-day Adventists from the French- and German-speaking areas of Switzerland united May 4, 2013, in the city of Biel/Bienne for a congress celebrating 147 years of Adventism in the Alpine nation.2013-05-17T12:16:28.0000000-05:00http://news.ncu.edu.jm/news_item.aspx?NewsID=4722SIXTH-FORM AND tertiary-level students having trouble financing their education have been given a lifeline; but they will have to work for it.2013-05-17T11:10:49.0000000-05:00http://news.ncu.edu.jm/news_item.aspx?NewsID=4721Is Jesus’ talent story in Matthew 25:14-30 supposed to be about a kingdom of heaven in the hereafter, or is it about earthly citizenship? Does it make you wonder about the relation between God’s kingdom and civic duty? The illustration He borrows from the now certainly shows that Christian reflection about then has a place in the now. Thinking about now and then together does have its profit.2013-05-17T10:47:41.0000000-05:00http://news.ncu.edu.jm/news_item.aspx?NewsID=4720The Seventh-day Adventist Church’s West-Central Africa Division this year will create four new union administrative units, an action that underscores membership growth in the region and a need for more strategic planning in local fields.2013-05-16T17:30:16.0000000-05:00http://news.ncu.edu.jm/news_item.aspx?NewsID=4719Residents of Kingston and St. Andrew who were recently trained in Customer Service and Supervisory Management at the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) Kingston Campus on Tuesday May 14, graduated from the programme to pomp and pageantry at the Webster Memorial Church on Half-Way Tree road. 2013-05-16T16:29:32.0000000-05:00