Regional Director for the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information’s Region 3, Sophia Forbes Hall, says the duties of education officers are being transformed. “The education officer, over the years, has primarily carried the role of an administrator. We are moving beyond that in order to make teaching and learning our priority,” she emphasized.  To this end, the Regional Director...

Approximately 30 additional schools will benefit from rainwater harvesting systems to be installed by Rural Water Supply Limited (RWSL). The agency recently commissioned into service systems installed at Rock Hall All Age School in St. Andrew, and Enid Bennett High School in St. Catherine, with another 30 set for completion by the end of the 2019/20 fiscal year. Managing Director,...

Data from the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) shows that “clerks” was the occupational group recording the largest increase in employment, as at July 2019. According to STATIN’s July 2019 Labour Force Survey, some 101,300 persons were employed in this group, representing an increase of 19,100 persons or 23.2 per cent, compared to the corresponding period last year. Director General,...

The Government has provided close to $50 million worth of relief supplies for 47 farmers in Flagaman, St. Elizabeth, who suffered losses during a fire in August. The expenditure includes over $14.3 million worth of supplies, comprising 28 black tanks, irrigation fixtures, hoses, more than 100 bags of fertilizer and a variety of seeds, among them - onion, sweet pepper,...

Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister, Senator the Hon. Kamina Johnson Smith, has lauded the local organisers of Leadercast Women for their commitment to promoting leadership excellence among women across all spheres of society. Senator Johnson Smith, who was speaking at a Leadercast Women event at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston on Friday (October 18), encouraged the nation’s women...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says a percentage of savings from Jamaica’s debt reduction programme will be transferred to the Contingencies Fund, to bolster the country’s response to natural disasters. “In the new era of being fiscally resilient, whatever we save from the reduction in debt repayments, we are putting some aside to deal with catastrophic disasters that...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says he intends to make Jamaica the most modern country in the Caribbean by the next 20 years. “Jamaica must develop…we have lost 40 years,” the Prime Minister said at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Fontana Pharmacy Waterloo’s branch, in Kingston, on Thursday (October 17).  “We have a generation or two that has not...