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Captain of the Clarendon-based Dynamic Cadet Corps, Rene Level (right), with students and cadets who participated in the corps' behaviour-modification summer camp during a field trip to Emancipation Park in St. Andrew. The two-week camp was held at the Ebony Grove High School in Clarendon.

One Hundred Fifty-Two Students Better Equipped to Manage Conflicts and Behaviour Issues

One hundred and fifty-two students from 10 high schools across three parishes have returned to the education system better equipped to manage conflicts and disciplinary issues. The youngsters, from the parishes of St. Catherine, Clarendon and Trelawny attended a behaviour-modification...

Music Development Specialist of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission Avory Crooks Campbell

Customer Service Song Competition Finals on September 19

Acting Director for Protective Security in the Ministry of National Security, Paul Henry, says three marine bases are being constructed to strengthen border security.

Gov’t Constructing Three Marine Bases to Strengthen Border Security

Director of Safety and Security for Schools, Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Coleridge Minto (left), converses with Senior Parish Court Judge, Kingston and St. Andrew Family Court, Her Hon. Mrs. Paula Blake-Powell, during a graduation ceremony for participants of the Children’s Drug Treatment Programme, at the Simón Bolívar Cultural Centre, downtown Kingston, recently.

Young Men Receive Certificates for Completing Drug Treatment Programme

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (second right) looks on as Knox Community College student, Brittany Campbell (second left), points out features of hot and sweet pepper plants, during a Youth in Agriculture forum held at the college's Cobbla campus in Manchester on Friday (September 7). Observing are fellow student, Shanice Wander (left); and Senior Agriculture Coordinator, Promotion of Regional Opportunities for Produce through Enterprises and Linkages (PROPEL) initiative, Alvin Murray.

Youth Encouraged to Pursue Farming as A Business

Jamaica Employers’ Federation (JEF) President, David Wan, speaks to JIS News.

7 years ago Education

Business Leaders React to CXC Suggestion

Several business leaders have reacted to the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) suggestion that employers diversify employment requirements by also requesting qualifications outside of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC). The CXC’s proposal comes against the background of what the regional examination body’s Registrar, Glenroy Cumberbatch, notes is the thousands of students who have been failing CSEC. Small Business Association of...

State Minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green.

7 years ago Education

Gov’t Taking Steps to Make Adoption Easier

The Government is taking steps to amend the Children (Adoption of) Act with a view to making the adoption process in Jamaica less tedious and conform to international standards. Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green, tells JIS News that the legislation, which was passed in 1958, is outdated. “A number of things...

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Audley Shaw, addresses a Youth in Agriculture forum on Friday (September 7) at the Knox Community College

7 years ago AgricultureCommerceIndustry

Minister Shaw Looking to Link Small Ganja Farmers with Large Processors

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw, says he is looking to link small ganja farmers with large processors who have the ability to convert ganja into a range of medicinal products. “What I'm working on is a programme where all serious ganja farmers who want to plant the herb for the formal industry will have to...

7 years ago Local Government

Three Miles Intersection in Kingston to be closed

The National Works Agency (NWA) is advising motorists that the east and westbound approaches to the Three Miles intersection, along Spanish Town Road, are to be closed. The closure which comes into effect on Sunday, September 9, will effectively close the Three Miles intersection to through traffic. Manager of Communication and Customer Services at the NWA, Stephen Shaw, says this...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness during the Ninth Meeting of the Prime Ministerial Sub Committee on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME)

7 years ago Office of the Prime Minister

Renewed Drive to Tackle CSME Issues

Under the Chairmanship of Prime Minister Andrew Holness, there has been renewed impetus by CARICOM Countries to tackle critical issues confronting the regional body. Yesterday, at the Ninth Meeting of the Prime Ministerial Sub Committee on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), the agenda items covered free movement of persons, skills, services and establishment, the role of the Private...

Finance and the Public Service Minister, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke (second right), officially opens Jamaica’s first agent banking facility, operated by First Global Bank (FGB), at the Boulevard Supercentre, Washington Boulevard, St. Andrew. FGB is a GraceKennedy (GK) subsidiary. Assisting him (from left) are FGB President and Chief Executive Officer, Mariame McIntosh Robinson; Chief Executive Officer for Stapharm Services Limited, which will operate the facility, Tanya Brissett; GK Group Chief Executive Officer, Senator Don Wehby; and Stapharm Services Managing Director, Patrick Brissett.

7 years ago Finance & Public Service

Jamaica’s First Agent Banking Facility Opens at Boulevard Supercentre

Finance and the Public Service Minister, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, on Thursday (September 6), officially opened Jamaica’s first agent banking facility, which is operated by GraceKennedy (GK) Group subsidiary – First Global Bank (FGB) at the Boulevard Supercentre, Washington Boulevard, St. Andrew. The launch is consistent with the Government’s Financial Inclusion Strategy (FIS), aimed at expanding access by persons...

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (second left), takes a close look at bamboo sauce, being shown to him by proprietor of KM3s Natural Juices, Khadesha Whyte (centre). Occasion was the media launch of the Caribbean International Bamboo Symposium at the Minister

7 years ago AgricultureCommerce

Farmers Encouraged to Tap Into Market for Non-Traditional Exports

The island’s farmers are being encouraged to diversify agricultural production and grow more non-traditional crops for the export market. Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw, who made the call, said that crops such as caster beans, sorghum, cannabis, coconuts and industrial hemp are in high demand overseas. He disclosed that a major coconut farmer from Guyana is...