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NWA to Implement Island Wide Patching Programme

The National Works Agency (NWA) is now in the process of finalizing another round of patching along major corridors across the country. The programme is to be rolled out over the course of the next few weeks. The programme which...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green (centre), engages with Unicomer Jamaica Managing Director, Dennis Harris (left); and Business Unit Director of Unicomer Jamaica, Ann-Marie Walters, at the Courts Customer Scholarship 2018 Awards ceremony, held at The Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston on August 14.

Furniture, Funds Already Delivered to Schools

Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information Minister, Hon. Floyd Green (left), presents a certificate of award to Danielle Barrett at Courts' 2018 Customer Scholarship Awards ceremony at The Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston on August 14.

Corporate Jamaica Urged to Support Brain Builders Programme

Mayor of Kingston and St. Andrew, Councillor Delroy Williams. (File)

Audiovisual System for Ward Theatre

Recipients of the Poverty Alleviation and Empowerment Foundation (PAEF), 2018 scholarship programme, at the presentation ceremony, held today (August 14), at the St. Catherine parish office of the Social Development Commission (SDC), in Spanish Town. With the students in the back row (from left) are: Donor to the Foundation, Michelle Smith; Chairman of the PAEF, Devon Samuels; Chief Executive Officer at United Way of Jamaica, Winsome Wilkins, and Executive Director of the PAEF, Pauline Gregory-Lewis.

High School Students Receive Scholarships from PAEF

7 years ago Local Government

Second Phase of Drain Cleaning in Corporate Area to Begin Soon

The Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) is set to begin its second phase of drain-cleaning activities shortly in several communities across the Corporate Area. Under this phase, critical drains in communities in 19 divisions of the Municipality will be cleaned. Already, under phase one, drains have been cleaned in communities in 21 divisions. Speaking to journalists following today’s...

Education, Youth and Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid (centre), converses with Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) President, Gary Allen, prior to the start of proceedings on the second day of the CBU

7 years ago

Information Minister Reaffirms Gov’t Commitment to Press Freedom

Education, Youth and Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, has reaffirmed the Government’s “unwavering” commitment to press freedom and the expression of free speech. He notes that while a significant percentage of Jamaica’s media, particularly cable, radio and free-to-air television, operate in an environment overseen by a politically independent regulator, the latitude afforded these entities has enabled them to...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (left), greets Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Public Media Alliance (PMA), Dr. Sally-Ann Wilson (second right), when he arrived at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Monday (Aug. 13) to attend the opening ceremony for the 49th Annual General Assembly of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU). President of the CBU, Gary Allen (left), makes the introduction. Looking on are President, PMA, Paul Thompson (centre); and Vice President, CBU, Amalia Mai.

7 years ago Prime Minister

Gov’t to Launch Commission to Find Solutions to Violence

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the Government will be launching a commission shortly to examine and find solutions to violence in Jamaica. He said that the media will be a major stakeholder in the process. “It is not a discussion for politicians solely to have; it is a national discussion. When I announce this commission, I am...

Permanent Secretary in the Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Ministry, Denzil Thorpe (2nd left), along with (from left): Miss Jamaica Festival Queen 2018, Ackera Gowie, and Director, Corporate Services, Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), Elizabeth Smith, view a self-portrait done by Artist and Musician, Patrick Kitson (right). Occasion was the official opening of the Visual Arts Exhibition at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston, on August 12.

7 years ago Youth

Works of Talented Artists on Display

The works of 45 talented Jamaican artists who participated in the annual Jamaica Visual Arts Competition and Exhibition are on display at the Jamaica Conference Centre, Port Royal Street, downtown Kingston. The exhibition, which was launched on Sunday (August 12) by the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), will be opened to the public for viewing August 13 to August 31,...

The Hon. Senator Ruel Reid, CD, Minister of Education, Youth and Information.

7 years ago Education

Education Ministry Stages Sensitisation Sessions for Parents

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information will be staging a series of sensitisation sessions for parents, which are aimed at increasing their involvement in their children’s learning and broader educational policy initiatives. Four sessions are scheduled with the first to be held on Thursday (August 16) at the Karram Speid Auditorium at the Merl Grove High School in St....

State Minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green (second left), interacts with (from left): Youth Empowerment Officer in the Ministry, Mrs. Paris-Michelle Barrett-Powell; Sashawney Clarke, Karisha Gayle, Natasia Foster and Matthew Gordon at the National Youth Symposium, held on Monday (August 13), at The Knutsford Court Hotel, in New Kingston.

7 years ago Youth

Youth Clubs to be Revived

Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green, has announced that 51 youth liaison officers/youth club assistants will soon be dispatched in constituencies to help with reviving youth clubs and making them more sustainable. Speaking at a National Youth Symposium held under the theme: ‘Safe Spaces for Youth’, at The Knutsford Court Hotel in...

Project Coordinator with the Registrar General’s Department (RGD), Charlton McFarlane, addresses a recent JIS ‘Think Tank’.

7 years ago Office of the Prime Minister

National Civil Registry at RGD to be Upgraded

The National Identification Systems (NIDS) Project has committed significant investments to the system upgrade and strengthening of the Registrar General’s Department’s (RGD) national civil registry, in preparation for its roll-out. The RGD is being revamped as the National Identification and Registration Authority to carry out the management of the NIDS, in addition to civil registration. Project Coordinator for the RGD...