Winners of past Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) National Festival of the Performing Arts competitions will have the opportunity to showcase their talent at upcoming local and national events. Director of Arts Development, Training and Acting at the JCDC, Andrew Brodber, told JIS News that artistes will be drawn from an “ongoing recording system” managed by the JCDC. He said...

Veteran educator, Dr. Gilzene Rose Fearon’s decision to become a teacher was influenced by, among other persons, those who taught her at Dollington Elementary School in her native parish, St. Mary. As a child, the 2016 Prime Minister’s Medal of Appreciation awardee was beset by challenges resulting from a physical defect affecting her left leg from birth. Consequently, she had...

Students at the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) are to benefit from practical training in dairy production under a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Seprod. The $30-million agreement, which was signed on July 5 at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries in St. Andrew will, among other things, see Seprod offering internship opportunities to CASE...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, says there is need for adequate sewage treatment in downtown Kingston. Making his contribution to the 2016/17 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on  July 5, the Minister emphasised that the sewage collection system in downtown Kingston is not only critical, but essential...

Attorney General, Hon. Marlene Malahoo Forte, says the Government will be making “radical changes” in a bid to curb the country’s murder rate. “To successfully tackle the murder problem, some of the fundamental rights and freedoms which we have guaranteed to our people may have to be abrogated, abridged or infringed, because the evidence we are examining convince us that...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, says potential investors have been identified for the development of near-port lands for logistics operations. He said that the business interests in the areas of retail and consumer products, dry docking, ship repair and bunkering services, and the automobile industry, will create jobs for...

Some 38 rural water projects are to be undertaken this financial year as part of plans to improve the provision of adequate reliable supplies of potable water to communities. This was disclosed by Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, during his presentation in the 2016/17 Sectoral Debate in the House...