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Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw, has commended founders of the MoBay Hope Medical Centre for establishing the facility, which has over the past 10 years, provided quality private health care to thousands of patients from western Jamaica. Speaking at the centre's 10th anniversary dinner and awards function at the Half Moon Conference Centre in Montego Bay...

Education Minister, Andrew Holness has said that a National Education Trust could be the vehicle to raise funds to develop the education infrastructure and lead to the removal of the shift system. Noting that 12 per cent of the island's schools and some 155,000 students were still on the shift system, the Minister said there was need for some 100...

Minister of Education, Andrew Holness has said that there is an inextricable link between education and local government, and that this form of governance will have to be explored, if there is to be political accountability within the education system. "It is something that we don't readily see in the Jamaican context. Our mindset is that there must be a...

Minister of Education, Andrew Holness has emphasized that the right to education must be secured for all citizens, whether in the formal system, or access after leaving the public school system. He was speaking, today (March 17), at the opening of the international conference on adult education, hosted by the Jamaica Council for Adult Education (JCAE), in collaboration with the...

Jamaica is set to lead the region in the development of training programmes and various educational tools, designed for target groups in the creative industries and which address the management of intellectual property. Seminars addressing this and other related areas have already been conducted with the assistance of representatives of the Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Bureau for Latin America...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw, has commended founders of the MoBay Hope Medical Centre for establishing the facility, which has over the past 10 years, provided quality private health care to thousands of patients from western Jamaica. Speaking at the centre's 10th anniversary dinner and awards function at the Half Moon Conference Centre in Montego Bay...

Education Minister, Andrew Holness has said that a National Education Trust could be the vehicle to raise funds to develop the education infrastructure and lead to the removal of the shift system. Noting that 12 per cent of the island's schools and some 155,000 students were still on the shift system, the Minister said there was need for some 100...

Minister of Education, Andrew Holness has said that there is an inextricable link between education and local government, and that this form of governance will have to be explored, if there is to be political accountability within the education system. "It is something that we don't readily see in the Jamaican context. Our mindset is that there must be a...

Minister of Education, Andrew Holness has emphasized that the right to education must be secured for all citizens, whether in the formal system, or access after leaving the public school system. He was speaking, today (March 17), at the opening of the international conference on adult education, hosted by the Jamaica Council for Adult Education (JCAE), in collaboration with the...

Jamaica is set to lead the region in the development of training programmes and various educational tools, designed for target groups in the creative industries and which address the management of intellectual property. Seminars addressing this and other related areas have already been conducted with the assistance of representatives of the Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Bureau for Latin America...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding is calling on the Church to help bring Jamaica together under God, a role which he said no other institution can perform. He said the government would be embarking on a campaign to mobilize the nation around things that are good and righteous, and the Church was required to play a lead role in that effort....

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has challenged DHL Express to prepare itself to step up its services so that when Jamaica begins to take advantage of the duty free, quota free benefits offered under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), it can interface with this new thrust to provide some of the critical services that will be required. Mr Golding said countries...