Teen mothers attending Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF) facilities across the island are benefiting from training to better help them to stimulate their babies and support their development. The training sessions are being conducted by Early Childhood Commission (ECC) development officers using the ‘Parenting Programme in Health Centres – What You Do With Baby Matters’ training package developed by...

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, says he will be pursuing discussions towards ensuring parity in the remuneration of mayors across the island. Currently, the mayors and deputy mayors in Kingston and St. Andrew, Portmore, and Montego Bay, are paid at a higher level than those in other townships. “The disparity between what I used to...

Cabinet has approved the award of a contract in the amount of $103 million to Nakash Construction and Equipment Company Limited for the construction of 90 metres of shoreline protection wall at the proposed site of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade on Port Royal Street, downtown Kingston. This is contained in a Cabinet Ministry Paper tabled in...

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda, says there is no evidence of plastic in the samples of rice tested by the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ). “The BSJ was provided with samples… and, so far, I can assure the people of Jamaica that there is absolutely no evidence of any contamination of plastic within the samples...

Work is expected to begin in January 2017 on the codes and regulations for the Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities (JCPD). Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Shahine Robinson, made the disclosure at the national church service for Disabilities Awareness Week held recently at the Grace Baptist Church in May Pen, Clarendon. She said the work should be...

In September 1998, a young Kerene Nelson, fresh from completing studies at the University of the West Indies (UWI) joined the academic staff of the St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) in Santa Cruz as a teacher of Spanish. Eighteen years later, she has copped one of the most coveted honours of her profession, that of the 2016/17 Lasco Teacher...

A senior consultant neurologist and one of Jamaica’s leading physicians, Dr. Daniel S. Graham, is well known for his groundbreaking research on the cause of the disease then known as ‘Jamaican Neuropathy’ in the mid and late 1980s. Dr. Graham worked alongside the late Professor Pamela Rodgers-Johnson, Professor Owen Morgan and Medicine and Neurophysiology Nobel Prize laureate, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek,...

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, is cautioning fellow politicians not to take their constituents for granted, pointing out that the consequences can be swift and severe. The Minister, who was speaking at a special sensitisation session with councillors and mayors at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in Rose Hall, St. James, on December 12, added...

Community Based Rehabilitation Jamaica (CBRJ), which is dedicated to children with disabilities, has honoured 23 persons and entities that have helped to transform the lives of persons with disabilities. Speaking at a special event, held recently at the Arians Restaurant in Twickenham Park, St. Catherine, Acting Managing Director of the Group, Sandra Long-White, said the awardees have contributed to the...