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Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange. (FILE)

Minister Grange: Pat Anderson Helped Set Foundation for Sports Success

The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has described the late former administrator Pat Anderson as “one of the pioneers who laid the foundation for Jamaica’s success in sports.” Mr Anderson, who led both the...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett (8th left, front row) and Minister of Education, Youth, and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid (12th left, front row), are with the first cohort of participants to be certified under the Jamaica Centre of Tourism Innovation (JCTI) programme. The inaugural graduation ceremony took place at the Montego Bay Convention Centre, Rose Hall, St. James, on Sunday, April 8.

Jamaica Centre of Tourism Innovation Certifies First 150 Persons

Minister of Local Government and Community Development Hon. Desmond McKenzie (centre); Mayor of Falmouth, His Worship Colin Gager (left); and Member of Parliament for Northern Trelawny, Victor Wright (right), participate in the breaking of ground for construction of a new market in Clark's Town, Trelawny, on April 6.

$150 Million Allocated to Repair Markets

Kingston’s Mayor, Senator Councillor Delroy Williams, addressing Tuesday’s (April 10) sitting of the Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation at the Council’s offices on Church Street, downtown Kingston.

Strengthening Local Government Key to Building Better Caribbean Cities

Newly appointed Labour and Social Security State Minister, Hon. Zavia Mayne (second right), greets Quality Management Specialist based in Japan, Atsuo Kanai, when he arrived at the Ministry’s North Street offices in Kingston on Monday (April 9) for a courtesy call. Introducing Mr. Kanai is Executive Director, Jamaica Productivity Centre, Dr. Charles Douglas (second left), while Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Colette Roberts-Risden, looks on.

Jamaica Productivity Centre Welcomes Quality Management Specialist

Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green (right), places a flower in honour of two wards of the State who perished in a fire earlier this year at the Walker’s Place of Safety in Kingston. Waiting to make a floral tribute is Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Dean-Roy Bernard. Occasion was a memorial service held in honour of the children on Monday (April 9) at the Faith Tabernacle Shiloh Apostolic Church on Lyndhurst Road.

8 years ago EducationInformationYouth

Ward of State Among Three Recommended for Gallantry Award

Three persons, including a ward of the State, are being considered for national honours for their acts of bravery during the fire at the Walker’s Place of Safety earlier this year that took the lives of two children and destroyed the Lyndhurst Crescent-based facility. Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green, made the...

National Security Minister, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang (right), and other members of the congregation of the Washington Gardens Seventh-day Adventist Church in Kingston, listen as members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force chorale renders a song, during a commemorative service on April 7 to mark the organisation’s 150th anniversary.

8 years ago National Security and Peace

PHOTOS: Dr. Chang Attends JCF 150th Anniversary

Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister and Member of Parliament for Central Clarendon, Hon. Michael Henry (right), admires the work of welding students of the Wesley E. McLaren Hazard Skills Training Centre (from left) Dennis Morrison; and Chrissy Grant. Occasion was a handover ceremony for the Wesley E. McLaren Hazard Skills Training Centre on the grounds of the McLaren Engineering Company in Clarendon on Friday (April 6).

8 years ago EducationInformationYouth

McLaren Family Hands Over Training Facility to Heart Trust/NTA

The Hazard Skills Training Centre in Clarendon, which provides certification for residents in collaboration with the Heart Trust /NTA, now has a new, more spacious home on the compound of the McLaren Engineering Company in Palmers Cross in the parish. McLaren Engineering, which is a family-operated establishment, offered the space for lease for 100 years at a cost of $1....

Attorney-at-law, Shara-Kay Dacres, who is a legal consultant with the Legal Aid Council’s Mobile Justice Unit (right), listens to teacher at the Promise Learning Centre, Janique Lewis Minzie. The Unit stopped at the instituion on Monday (April 9) to offer free consultations and legal advice to teachers, parents of students and residents.

8 years ago Justice

Mobile Justice Unit Stops at Hagley Park Road

The Legal Aid Council’s Mobile Justice Unit stopped at the Promise Learning Centre on Hagley Park Road on Monday (April 9), offering free consultation and legal advice to teachers, parents of students and residents. Persons received counsel on land-related matters, how to make a will, child maintenance, the rights of children with special needs, among other areas. Attorney-at-law, Shara-Kay Dacres,...

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie (left), greets His Worship the Mayor of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, Alderman Joel Martinez (right), at the inaugural staging of the Caribbean Conference of Mayors at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Regional Headquarters, Mona, St. Andrew, today (April 9). At centre is His Worship the Mayor of Kingston, Senator Councillor, Delroy Williams. The three-day meeting is organised by the Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation and is being held under the theme ‘Caribbean Cities: Honouring the Past, Embracing a Smart Future’.

8 years ago Local Government

Local Authorities Challenged to Become More Self-Sufficient

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, is calling on local authorities to become more self-sufficient, in order to reduce their dependency on central government. He was addressing the opening ceremony of the inaugural Caribbean Conference of Mayors at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Regional Headquarters, Mona, St. Andrew, today (April 9). “If we speak...

8 years ago Local Government

Trelawny Surpasses Property Tax Target

Mayor of Falmouth, Colin Gager, says the Trelawny Municipal Corporation must be commended for Trelawny being the only parish other than Kingston and St. Andrew to reach and surpass the property tax target for the 2017/2018 financial year. The Mayor, who was speaking at the official opening of the Clark’s Town Transportation Centre in Trelawny on April 6, said the...

Health Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton.

8 years ago Health & Wellness

Gov’t Taking Responsible Approach in Dealing with Situation at Cornwall Regional – Dr. Tufton

Health Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, has assured that the Government will continue to take a responsible approach in dealing with the situation affecting the Cornwall Regional Hospital in St. James. He noted that 33 out of 38 services offered by the facility have been relocated to the Falmouth Hospital in Trelawny. “It has taken us a year to...