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The 2006 bird-shooting season will open this Saturday (Aug.19), with Minister of Local Government and Environment, Dean Peart having signed the necessary orders under the Wild Life Protection Act for hunting to begin. Zadie Neufville, Public Education Officer at the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) told JIS News that the season would end on Sunday, September 24 and shooting...

Some 44 representatives from the judiciary across the Caribbean are participating in the third annual Judicial Enforcement Management Systems (JEMS) now underway in Ocho Rios, St. Ann. The five-day conference, which commenced on Tuesday (August 15) at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Resort, is being held under the theme: 'Caribbean Court Technology Users - establishing a foundation for the effective use...

On this special day, when we salute the memory of the Rt. Excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey, National Hero, let us be grateful for the storehouse of wisdom, experience and extraordinary qualities that he has bequeathed to Jamaica and the world. We should ask ourselves how it was, that a black man born in humble circumstances in 19th century Jamaica came...

A number of schools in Kingston are to benefit from a youth leadership programme to be implemented by the British-funded Beacons of Progress and Achievement (BPA). "We have worked on it and we are already prepared to have it in Kingston College and August Town Primary this September 2006," said President of the organization Natalie Peterson, adding that the BPA...

By September 2008, the Jose Marti campus in St. Catherine should house both technical and traditional high schools. "Because of the number of students we're going to be hosting on the campus, and the fact that we're now making it a traditional high school with grades 7 to 9, we're looking at creating two separate facilities and these will come...

State Minister for Education and Youth, Senator Noel Monteith, has said that most schools in Central Jamaica were in a state of readiness for the start of the new academic year in September. Senator Monteith, who spoke to JIS News following a tour of educational institutions in the parishes of Manchester and St. Elizabeth yesterday (Aug.16) said he was encouraged...

The design for the reconstruction of the 157-metre Yallahs Bridge, which was severely damaged during Hurricane Dennis in July 2005, has been completed, said Stephen Shaw, Manager of Communication and Customer Services at the National Works Agency (NWA). He told JIS News that the design was done by the Agency's Technical Services Department. With the completion of the design work,...

London Transport is this year celebrating the 50th anniversary of its direct recruitment scheme in the Caribbean. A major part of the celebrations is a project to record the stories of the men and women from Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago who answered its advertisements. The Caribbean recruitment started in the 1950s as London Transport began a major recruitment...

Two Jamaican students have been commended for their entries in the 2006 Commonwealth Essay Competition.Alleyne Tristan of Campion College and Stephen Antoine Richards of Wolmer's Preparatory School both received commendation in their categories in this year's competition, which saw over 6,000 entries from 1,350 schools across the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth Essay Competition is an international education project open to all...

Salomie Evering, Acting Deputy Chief Education Officer in the Ministry of Education and Youth, has said that the Ministry was making every effort to ensure that the supporting material for the revised primary curriculum for grades one to three, would be made available for the new academic year. "We are making all the effort to have the supporting material completed...

The Ministry of Education and Youth has earmarked $8 million to the Student Empowerment Programme for the new school year, which begins in September. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Maria Jones, told JIS News that the money would go towards providing resource material to assist secondary school students, who were benefit under the initiative. The Student Empowerment Programme, which began...

Acting Director of Project Management and Technical Services at the Ministry of Education and Youth, Lauriston Wilson, has revealed that 1,300 students' desks and chairs were expected to arrive in the island this weekend from Japan. Speaking at a JIS Think Tank on Aug. 17, Mr. Wilson explained that the furniture were a special gift from the Harakawa City Board...