The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information will be placing an additional 400 trained teachers in basic schools and infant departments as part of measures to strengthen early-childhood education. State Minister in the Ministry, Hon. Floyd Green, said the initiative will be done through the Housing, Opportunity, Prosperity, Employment (HOPE) programme. “These are trained teachers, who will be assigned throughout...

Approximately 90 girls and young women from 15 high schools, universities and community colleges across the country competed for attractive prizes at the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) Girls in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Day Caribbean ‘Hackathon’ on Thursday (April 27). The all-day event, held at the Spanish Court Hotel’s Worthington Conference Centre in New Kingston, saw the young women...

National Security Minister, Hon. Robert Montague, says the Ministry is in the process of hiring 20 lawyers, who will be assigned to various police divisions across the country. Speaking at a post-Sectoral Debate press conference at his Oxford Road headquarters in Kingston on April 27, Mr. Montague informed that one lawyer has already been engaged for the St. James police...

The Ministry of Labour and Social Security will embark on a public awareness campaign to sensitise Jamaicans to job scams. Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Shahine Robinson, made the announcement during her 2017/18 Sectoral Debate presentation in the House on April 26. While applauding the efforts of the 83 licensed employment agencies that have secured more than 9,000...

Starting this September, grade-nine students will be able to study entrepreneurship as part of the school curriculum. This is under the Junior Achievement Company of Entrepreneurs (JACE) Secondary Early Entrepreneurial Development (SEED) programme, which is a three-year agreement between the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Junior Achievement Jamaica. The initiative aims to transform and stimulate students and...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to increase the housing stock across the island in a timely and orderly manner. “We are going to build housing that you can be proud of to have them integrated into communities. Housing around which you can create a society that is secure, progressive in its thinking, that is at one...

Economic Growth Council (EGC) Chairman, Michael Lee-Chin, says funds have been identified to enable the National Security Ministry to conduct a feasibility study for the creation of a Global Immigration Card for members of the Jamaican diaspora. He made the announcement during the EGC’s second quarterly national report at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Regional Headquarters in Mona,...