The number of job placements facilitated locally through the Ministry of Labour and Social Security’s Electronic Labour Exchange (ELE) grew by 40.7 per cent to 1,397 in 2023, compared with the previous year. Details of this out-turn are contained in the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) Economic and Social Survey Jamaica 2023. The findings indicate that placements for males and...

Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams, has suggested several key areas where the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) could maintain and enhance its relevance in a rapidly evolving educational landscape. Addressing a JTA church service at the St. Matthew’s Anglican Church in Santa Cruz, St. Elizabeth, on August 18, to commemorate the entity’s 60th anniversary, Mrs. Williams said key...

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) through its Integrated Community Development Project II (ICDP II), will engage approximately 800 beneficiaries in their annual Summer Camp programme. These Summer Camp initiatives cost approximately Sixteen Million Jamaican Dollars (JMD$16,000,000) and is funded by the Government of Jamaica. The primary objective of this project is to provide structured educational, recreational, behavioural support services...

More than 150 students received back-to-school supplies at the recent St. Thomas Students Essay Competition, organised by United States (US)-based Jamaican national, Audrey Thomas. The event was held at Eastern Gas Plaza in Yallahs and saw 16 students participating in the competition. Scores of students from across the parish were gifted with computer gadgets, school bags and other educational items....

A new completion date of December 2024 has been set for the Morant Bay Urban Centre in St. Thomas, with the project now 70 per cent finished. Factories Corporation of Jamaica (FCJ) Chairman, Lyttleton Shirley, said that the previously announced deadline of September 2024 was pushed back due to delays in construction activities. “We experienced an issue with the impending...

Mayor of Montego Bay, Councillor Richard Vernon, is encouraging students to seize the academic opportunities available to them, emphasising the importance of education in shaping their future. “Apply for a scholarship… access education. The institutions are there [and] there are opportunities [for] young people,” Councillor Vernon said. He was speaking during the Howard Ward Benefit Foundation Annual Scholarship Awards Luncheon...

Ground has been broken for the Boundbrook Urban Centre in Port Antonio, Portland, which is set to provide a major economic boost for the coastal town. The facility will sit on 6.68 acres of land at a total development cost of $4.2 billion and is expected to generate thousands of jobs for residents of the parish. It is being spearheaded...