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Psychology lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Liberal Studies, University of Technology (UTech), Henry Lewis (left), speaks with Advisor to ththis year’s Tag Drive, an annual fundraising event put on by the Students’ Union.

UTech Students’ Union Stages Annual Tag Drive

The Students’ Union of the University of Technology (UTech) is continuing its fight against violence through its annual fundraising Tag Drive, which is being held this year under the theme ‘Keep the Peace, Save our Streets’. Dubbed ‘a special campaign...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (right), greets Ambassador Designate of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Nguyen Trung Thanh, when he arrived at the Office of the Prime Minister for a courtesy call on Thursday (February 22).

PM Meets with Vietnam Ambassador

Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Dr. the Hon. Andrew Wheatley (right), listens to a comment from Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of New Zealand and Chair, International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA), Professor Peter Gluckman, during a dinner for the INGSA Caribbean Capacity-Building Workshop, held on February 21 at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston.

Cabinet Approves Separate Category for Nutraceuticals in Food and Drug Act

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

Renovated Muirton Child Care Facility in Portland Reopens

Managing Director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeney (right, presents grade-six student at Lethe Primary in St. James, Dontay Scott, with the first-place trophy in the individual performance category of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund’s (JSIF) Integrated Community Development Project (ICDP) School Science Quiz Competition. Looking on is media personality and master of ceremonies, Dahlia Harris. The award ceremony was held on Wednesday, February 21 at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston.

Boys Outdo Girls in JSIF Science Quiz

8 years ago Budget 2018/2019Works / Construction

Drop-In Centres to Be Built in St. Thomas and Trelawny

Construction for two drop-in centres for homeless persons in the parishes of St. Thomas and Trelawny is expected to be completed in the 2018/19 fiscal year. To facilitate the undertaking, a sum of $28 million has been allocated in the 2018/19 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project is being financed from the Consolidated Fund and...

8 years ago Budget 2018/2019Finance & Public Service

Public Sector Transformation Project Gets $735 Million

A sum of $735.5 million has been allocated to continue the Strategic Public Sector Transformation Project this year. This is outlined in the 2018/19 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project, being implemented by the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, is seeking to strengthen public resource management and provide support for select State institutions...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett

8 years ago Tourism

Tourism Minister Says Companies that Invest in Workers Will Reap Rewards

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says organisations that value and invest in their employees will reap the rewards of a truly engaged workforce. The Minister, who was speaking at the annual Melia Braco Village Staff Awards on February 19 at Melia Braco, Trelawny, said the flipside, however, is that entities that treat their workers as just another commodity will...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (left); former Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Edward Seaga (centre); and Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Dr. the Hon. Andrew Wheatley, unveil ‘The Edward Seaga Building’ sign at the corporate office of Petrojam Limited located on Marcus Garvey Drive in Kingston on Thursday (February 22). The building was named in honour of Mr. Seaga’s contribution to the establishment and development of Petrojam’s operations.

8 years ago EnergyScienceTechnology

Petrojam Building Named for Edward Seaga

The corporate office of Petrojam Limited, located on Marcus Garvey Drive in Kingston, was on Thursday (February 22) officially named ‘The Edward Seaga Building’ in honour of the former Prime Minister. Through the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ), Mr. Seaga spearheaded the purchase of the Petrojam Refinery from ESSO West Indies in 1982. Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness,...

Education Officer for the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information’s Region IV, Stokely Reid, addresses male students at a one-day conference for teenage schoolboys staged by the University of the West Indies’ (UWI) Open Campus in Montego Bay, held on February 21 at the Grandiosa Hotel in the Second City.

8 years ago EducationInformationYouth

Young Males Urged to Focus on Positives

Education Officer for the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information’s Region IV, Stokely Reid, is imploring the country’s young males to focus on the positives, noting that their dreams can be realised as long as they work steadfastly and earnestly towards these goals. “Stop looking at the past and the negativity and what will hold us down and start looking...

Minister of Education, Youth and Information.

8 years ago EducationInformationYouth

Grade-Five Students to Do PEP Mock Exams in June

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, has announced that grade-five students will sit the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) grade-six mock examinations in June. In an interview with JIS News, Senator Reid said all the necessary arrangements have already been made for students islandwide to sit the examinations, of which they will be the first cohort...

8 years ago Budget 2018/2019Local Government

Fleet of Jamaica Fire Brigade to Be Increased

The fleet of the Jamaica Fire Brigade is expected to be increased in the new fiscal year, following an allocation of $232 million. Details of the project are outlined in the 2018/19 Estimates of Expenditure, which were tabled in the House of Representatives by Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw, on February 15. The money will...