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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (left), tries out a hydraulic training device in a laboratory at the Festo Authorised and Certified Training (FACT) Centre located at the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) in Kingston. The occasion was a tour of the facility following its official opening on Wednesday (September 19). Looking on are Education, Youth and Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid (right); and FACT-certified trainer, Ricardo Hopwood.

PM Opens Festo Training Centre at CMU

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, on Wednesday (September 19), officially opened the region’s first Festo Authorised and Certified Training (FACT) Centre at the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) in Kingston. The state-of-the-art facility, which will deliver international certification in...

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid (centre), fields questions from educators at a regional teachers’ consultation held on Tuesday (September 18) at the Port Antonio High School in Portland. He is flanked by Chief Education Officer, Dr. Grace McLean (left); and Assistant Chief Education Officer, Winnie Berry.

Schools Encouraged to Contact Ministry for PEP Support

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (left), engages with Head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Jamaica, Her Excellency Malgorzata Wasilewska (second left) at a recent ceremony at the Bustamante Hospital for Children in St. Andrew, to mark the breaking of ground for construction of a high-dependency unit (HDU) at the facility, in addition to Victoria Jubilee, St. Andrew; and Cornwall Regional, St. James. From second right are Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Sancia Bennett Templer; and Director of the EU Unit, Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) Dianne Davis. The units are being built under the EU-funded Programme for the Reduction of Maternal and Child Mortality (PROMAC).

Improvements in Delivery of Maternal Care and Childcare

Minister of Transport and Mining, Hon. Robert Montague, during his presentation in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (September 18).

House Passes Bill to Validate Activities of Transport Authority

PM Holness to Attend Official Funeral for the late Easton Douglas

7 years ago Local GovernmentWorks / Construction

More modifications to traffic management plan coming

As the National Works Agency (NWA) continues to tweak its traffic management plan in Kingston and St. Andrew, more change is to come starting this weekend. As of this Sunday, September 23, turning restrictions will be implemented along the section of Constant Spring Road, between the bridge at Market Place and the Dunrobin Avenue intersection. Manager, Communication and Customer Services...

7 years ago Economic Growth & Infrastructure Development

Vaz Tells G7 Leaders Time for Talk on Climate Change Long Past and Calls for Innovation In Financing for Resilience Projects

Minister Without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation with responsibility for the Environment, Hon, Daryl Vaz, today addressed the G7 Environment Ministers’ meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Jamaica was one of three Small Island Developing States invited to attend the plenary, but it was Minister Vaz who delivered the key note address in the session...

Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, emphasises a point while addressing journalists during a recent media briefing at the Ministry

7 years ago Tourism

Talks Under Way to Develop Communications Framework for Tourism Resilience Centre

Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says the Ministry is in discussions with the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) and a United Kingdom (UK)-based entity for the development of a communications framework for the operations of the proposed Global Centre for Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management. Mr. Bartlett was speaking at a recent media briefing at the Ministry’s offices in New Kingston....

Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr. (left), is in discussion with Mexican Ambassador to Jamaica, Juan José González Mijares, at a reception held at the ambassador’s residence in St. Andrew on September 14 to commemorate the 208th Anniversary of the Independence of Mexico.

7 years ago Education

Mexico Chair to be Established at UWI

A ‘Mexico Chair’ will be established at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, in October 2018 as part of efforts to increase research collaboration and strengthen relations between higher-education institutions in Mexico and the university. Mexico’s Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Juan José González Mijares, made the announcement at a reception to commemorate the 208th Anniversary of the...

7 years ago TourismVision 2030

Regional Multi-Destination Tourism Framework on Track

Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says development of a Caribbean multi-destination tourism framework is on track. He said that Jamaica has signed Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) with Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Mexico, and the parties are scheduled to meet later this year to “start hammering out a product for the market”. Minister Bartlett was speaking at a recent media...

Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security, Hon. Rudyard Spencer (left), presents an inmate at the Fort Augusta Adult Correctional Centre with a plaque for her achievement in the 2018 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations. Occasion was an appreciation function at the centre’s location at South Camp Road in Kingston on September 18.

7 years ago Education

Female Inmates Earn CSEC Passes

More than 55 per cent of inmates at the all-female Fort Augusta Adult Correctional Centre who sat the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations this year passed at least one subject. Of the 29 inmates who sat the tests, 16 received passes in Mathematics; English A; Electronic Document Preparation and Management (EDPM); Principles of Business; Food, Nutrition and Health; Office...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, emphasises a point during his address in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (September 18).

7 years ago National SecurityPrime Minister

Denham Town Zone of Special Operations Extended

The Zone of Special Operations (ZOSO) in Denham Town, West Kingston, has been extended for another three months. This follows approval by members of the House of Representatives during the sitting of the Lower House on Tuesday (September 18). With the extension, the anti-crime initiative, which was slated to end on October 2, will remain in place until January 2019....