Principal of the Spanish Town High School, Ventley Brown, has described a move by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information to increase its budgetary support to schools as welcome and valuable. Speaking on a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) television Back-to-School Special Forum, Mr. Brown said this will increase by over 50 per cent the school’s cash flow. This he...

Sport Minister, Honourable Olivia Grange, has encouraged the Sir Henry Morgan Angling Association to work with communities within the fishing industry in order to protect the environment and increase participation in sports fishing. “Develop partnerships with our fisher folk — something I know you’re very good at.  And together you’ll go a very far way in protecting the environment and...

Some 12,000 teachers have already been trained to deliver lessons from the new National Standards Curriculum in five grades starting this academic year. Training started at the beginning of August and will continue into September. Chief Education Officer, Dr. Grace McLean, said this training is critical, as the rollout of the new curriculum for grades one and four at the...

Discussions are under way between the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information for the installation of a closed-circuit television (CCTV) system that links the Transport Centre with various high schools in the Corporate Area. This was noted  by Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, during a back-to-school conference for...

Employers and workers are being encouraged to make use of the Jamaican Foundation for Lifelong Learning (JFLL) workplace intervention programme. Special Projects Manager, Workplace and Communities, JFLL, Janet Allen, told JIS News that the call comes as a result of statistics from the Jamaica Vision 2030 Training Sector Plan which indicate that 70 per cent of the Jamaican workforce is...

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Justice, Mrs. Carol Palmer, says the Government remains unrelenting in the fight against human trafficking. Addressing Seventh-day Adventists at their convention at the West Jamaica Conference Centre in Montego Bay on August 27, Mrs. Palmer said perpetrators involved in the crime will be caught and the law will take its course. “We take this...

Minister of National Security, Hon. Robert Montague, is urging the Kiwanis movement to play a greater role in the fight against crime and violence in the country. This, he said, by reaching out to more young people in order to instil in them a culture of service and respect for law and order. Minister Montague was addressing the 26th convention...