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PORT ANTONIO — A new high school is to be built in Portland, as the Government seeks to expand opportunities and improve education delivery for young Jamaicans. Making the disclosure at the official opening of the newly rebuilt Fruitful Vale Primary School, Portland, on Wednesday (May 18), Minister of Education, Hon Andrew Holness, said the new school will be part...

KINGSTON — Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, yesterday joined residents of Olympic Gardens in sprucing up the Balcombe Drive Primary and Junior High School located in the community. The school, which caters to 380 students, was cleaned and painted, with trees planted and other minor repair work done as needed. Minister Holness, who planted a Poui tree, said he...

KINGSTON — The National Disability Bill, with provisions to safeguard the rights of persons with disabilities, is to be enacted by next March, says Director of Emergency Disaster Management and Special Services in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Marion Bullock Ducasse. She was speaking at a training workshop for frontline health workers, at the Medallion Hall Hotel in Kingston on...

PORT ANTONIO — A total of 55 projects have been registered for Portland, a meeting to finalize preparations for the observation of Labour Day (Monday May 23) under the theme “It takes a village to raise a child”,  at the Parish Council on Thursday (May 19), was informed. The Port Antonio Hospital, which has been identified as the parish project,...

LONDON — Jamaica’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK), His Excellency Anthony Johnson, has hailed Wednesday's (May 18) ruling by the British Court of Appeal to allow a new trial into the 1993 murder of teenager Stephen Lawrence. Mr. Johnson said he hoped that Stephen’s parents, Neville and Doreen Lawrence, both of whom are Jamaican, could take comfort from...

MANDEVILLE — A total of 280 secondary school teachers, who successfully completed training under the e-Learning Jamaica Project, have received certification in basic computer skills, which will enable them to integrate information and communication technologies in their lesson plans. The teachers, from 16 schools across six parishes, were presented with their certificates at a graduation ceremony held last week at...

WASHINGTON — Founder and Chairman of regional telecommunications giant Digicel, Denis O'Brien, is speaking glowingly about Jamaica's investment climate and inviting international investors and financiers to look to the island. “If you are an investor contemplating coming to Jamaica, you have a very friendly government,” he told a group of potential investors in Washington on Tuesday (May 17) at the...

WASHINGTON — Jamaica's Ambassador to the United States, Her Excellency Audrey P. Marks, has commended Jamaican artist, Laura Facey, for her work, “Their Spirits Gone Before Them”, which has been creating quite a stir at the “About Change” exhibition at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C. Ambassador Marks, who joined art lovers to view the exhibits on Wednesday (May...

KINGSTON — Director of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Dr. Gladstone Hutchinson, is projecting a one to two per cent growth in the Jamaican economy for the current April to June quarter. According to Dr. Hutchinson, the PIOJ is also forecasting a similar one to two per cent improvement in the economy for both the 2011 calendar year and...

MONTEGO BAY — Approximately 360 students of Troy Primary and the Clarence Brimm Basic schools in Trelawny, will be in for pleasant surprises when they return to school today, as they will find their schools nicely painted, canteens extensively repaired, and running water to enhance the school’s sanitation. This resulted from citizens of Troy and adjoining communities, led by Mayor...

KINGSTON — Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw, used the occasion of the Bank of Jamaica's (BoJ) 50th anniversary banquet on Thursday May 19 to bat for a more independent central bank.    Addressing the gala affair, held at the bank’s Nethersole Place headquarters downtown Kingston, the Minister expressed the Government’s commitment to the BoJ becoming autonomous,...

Kingston – The Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Olivia Grange, MP has said that "all is set" for Labour Day 2011 tomorrow (Monday). Minister Grange said that the National Labour Day Secretariat, which operates from the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture, had "provided grants to all 14 projects for national focus and had delivered supplies to all municipalities."...