The $15 million memorial park currently being constructed at the site of the 1907 earthquake monument, in Greenwich Town, is expected to be a tourist attraction when completed. This is the vision of the Government’s multi-agency team currently working on the project, which is intended to attract Jamaicans locally and in the Diaspora, who may have had relatives who died...

Executive Director of the Jamaican Foundation for Lifelong Learning (JFLL), Worrel Hibbert, says his organisation will be making a concerted effort to go into deep rural communities to market education as the main gateway to success. Mr. Hibbert told JIS News that statistics have shown that rural illiteracy is greater than urban illiteracy and that as part of the JFLL’s...

More adults are ignoring the stigma attached to literacy centres and have been taking up the opportunity to further their education. Principal of the Jamaican Foundation for Lifelong Learning (JFLL) Facility in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, Oliver Williams, says the centre, located on Barracks Road, now operates on a shift system, so as to accommodate the many adults who can only attend...

The Passport, Immigration & Citizenship Agency (PICA), in accordance with its commitment to transparency, accountability and responsiveness as well as a desire to enhance its e-diplomatic efforts has launched a Facebook page. The Page, which goes live to the public on Monday, January 11, 2016, is intended to boost the Agency’s ability to serve the Jamaican people, its stakeholders and...

Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Patrick Allen, says that community colleges are playing a key role in producing quality graduates for the job market. Sir Patrick, who was delivering the keynote address at the Council of Community Colleges of Jamaica’s Annual Conference at the Hilton Rose Hall Hotel in St. James on January 6, said graduates of the institutions...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, says the growth of the National Insurance Fund (NIF), which now stands at a healthy $77 billion, has made retirement benefits for contributors more attractive, while contributing to the development of the Jamaican economy. She was speaking yesterday (January 8) at the official opening of the NIF-owned Meliá Braco Village in Trelawny. The Prime Minister...

The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) expects to hit the 500mark for entries in the Jamaica Visual Arts Competition and Exhibition this year. Director for Marketing and Public Relations at JCDC, Stephen Davidson, told JIS News that the “number (of entries) has been in the 400s (in the past), so (JCDC is) hoping to hit the 500 mark in terms...