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A resource centre, valued at some $3 million, and equipped with modern teaching and learning aides, has been established at the Duckenfield Primary School in St. Thomas. The centre, financed by Digicel Foundation, was officially handed over to the school located at Hampton Court on January 23. The project involved the conversion and extension of a classroom into a state-of-...

Approximately 700 mangrove seedlings were planted along the Palisadoes Strip by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) in collaboration with the Port Royal Marine Laboratory of the University of the West Indies. The activity was the second such event done as a part of the activities for International Year of the Reef (IYOR) 2008 in which a total of...

Minister of National Security, Senator Colonel Trevor MacMillan, has said that there has been a 10 per cent decline in murders for the first 18 days of 2009, compared to the corresponding period last year. "This trend follows the decline in the murder figures for November and December 2008," he told the Senate yesterday (Jan. 23), noting that carnal abuse...

Prime Minister, Bruce Golding has called on Christians to become "heart surgeons for Christ" to help transform the society and address the scourge of crime and violence. The Prime Minister, who was addressing the 65th anniversary conference of the Holiness Christian Church Incorporated on Thursday (Jan. 22) in Ocho Rios, noted that the country was faced with this "terrible scourge,...

Minister of Water and Housing, Dr. Horace Chang and technocrats in the Ministry, on Thursday (Jan. 22) met with a delegation from Tanzania, including Minister of Energy and Minerals, William Ngeleja, to share expertise and relate best quality practices in water sourcing and management. "I view this visit as one for sharing experiences," Minister Chang told the Tanzanians, at the...

Executive Director of the National Commission on Science and Technology (NCST), Merline Bardowell, has lauded the Organization of American States (OAS)-funded Caribbean Innovation and Entrepreneurship project, in terms of its ability to foster and enhance innovation in technology in the region. She was speaking at the opening of an entrepreneurs' workshop at the Knutsford Court Hotel in Kingston recently, to...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw, has called on senior managers, commissioners and other key personnel in the tax administration system, to more diligently carry out their responsibilities under the law. He noted that the reform of the tax system, now being undertaken, is designed to address the wanton evasion of taxes and instances of corruption, and...

The Major Investigation Task Force (MIT) is improving its capacity to probe major crimes, in particular gun-related murders and shootings. Speaking during his contribution to the State of the Nation Debate in the Senate yesterday (Jan. 23), Minister of National Security, Senator Colonel Trevor MacMillan, noted that the capacity-building process has benefited from a range of initiatives introduced over the...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Michael Stern, has said that the Government has and will continue to make direct interventions to stimulate investment in innovation. He said that a number of initiatives are already in place including a Technology Investment Fund, established through the National Commission on Science and Technology (NCST) to finance investment...

Minister of Education, Andrew Holness, has said that tertiary students, who have benefitted from the Government's investment in their education, have a social responsibility to give back to the country. "I'm saying to you, the brightest of the brightest, that we have to put our minds and our hearts into building a new social contract...so if you didn't have this...

Minister of Information, Culture, Youth, and Sports, Olivia Grange, along with executives of the Jamaica Conservation Development Trust (JCDT), have signed documents to facilitate the declaration of the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park as a World Heritage Site, by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). The signing took place during the weekly post-Cabinet media briefing...

Resource rooms, equipped with technology to enhance the literacy and numeracy skills of students, will be established in some 12 primary schools across the island. Digicel Foundation is undertaking the project in collaboration with the Education Transformation Team of the Ministry of Education, and already, at least one resource room has been established at the Duckenfield Primary School in Hampton...