A total of 300 young people are to be equipped with skills in bartending through Red Stripe’s Bar Academy programme. The 2019 edition of the programme was launched on Monday (May 13) at the brewery’s Spanish Town Road location in St. Andrew. The training, being delivered by Red Stripe in partnership with the HEART Trust/NTA, commenced with an orientation exercise...

The St. James Health Department will embark on a new vector control programme on June 3, which will include the prosecution of persons who refuse to destroy mosquito breeding sites. In an interview with JIS News, Chief Public Health Inspector for St. James, Lennox Wallace, said the programme will also include boosting the number of vector control personnel deployed to...

The Real Estate Board (REB) recently awarded a winner for its inaugural national high-school essay competition. Joelle Morgan, a sixth-form student of The Queen’s High School, was named the competition’s winner and walked away with $30,000 in cash prize and the winner’s trophy. “I am very elated that I won the competition. It was my teacher who encouraged me to...

Finance and the Public Service Minister, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, says additional reforms being accelerated by the Government to improve Jamaica’s global competitiveness should serve to further boost the country’s ranking on the World Bank Doing Business Report Index. He said despite Jamaica improving 16 places on the Index to be ranked the most competitive Caribbean country with which...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz, has thanked the World Bank for providing the financial and technical support for reforms being implemented across government. He notes that the Bank’s loan-funded Foundations for Competitiveness and Growth Programme has been “particularly supportive” through the provision of resources for business environment reforms designed to...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett (centre), greets Bartender of the year 2018, Gossett Brown Jr, during the Tourism Linkages Network’s chef workshop at the Liguanea Club in New Kingston on May 9. At right is Executive Director, Tourism Enhancement Fund, Dr. Carey Wallace. The workshop was held for junior culinary Ambassadors and select members of the Culinary Federation of...

Robert Nesta Morgan was sworn in as a Government Senator and Parliamentary Secretary this afternoon (May 9) at King’s House. Mr. Morgan, who was the Director of Communications and Public Affairs at the Office of the Prime Minister, will fill the seat in the Upper House left vacant following the resignation of the former Education, Youth and Information Minister, Ruel...