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The Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) will be implementing a new Examination Processing System next year as part of efforts to improve its efficiency. Chairman of the Council, Professor Kenneth Hall, who made the announcement at a press conference held recently at the Hilton Kingston Hotel, explained that the system was being introduced "in order to ensure the efficient processing of...

Education, Youth and Culture Minister, Maxine Henry Wilson has stressed that in the Caribbean's ongoing efforts to achieve sustainable development, emphasis has to be placed on fostering quality education and capacity building that would redound to the benefit of the region's youth. In order for Caribbean nations to achieve these goals, she said, "we must focus on the character of...

Residents of the hilly rural terrain of West St. Thomas should soon see improvements to the waste water infrastructure in their communities as plans are being finalized to execute works to effect the rehabilitation. Speaking with JIS News at a community development meeting involving the Social Development Commission in Hagley Gap, St. Thomas, Member of Parliament for the area James...

Jamaica is among twelve member countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) that have now ratified the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas, paving the way for the adoption of the Treaty Establishing the Caribbean Community and the creation of the Caribbean Single Market in January 2006. This follows the deposit of the instrument of ratification by Dominica and the acceptance of a...

Jamaica, through its investment company, JAMPRO is seeking to maximize the benefits from the region's staging of the 2007 Cricket World Cup and hopes to learn from the Business Club Australia initiative, which is the official business promotion and facilitation agency behind next year's Melbourne Commonwealth Games. Business Club Australia: Melbourne 2006, is seeking to use the excitement and world...

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) will be installing additional timetables for bus services on select routes and will change the existing schedules on December 14. In an interview with JIS News, Manager of Service Planning and Network Development, Jacqueline Darwood, said that, "the timetables that are now up are due for change on the 13th of December 2005." This,...

State Minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture, Senator Noel Monteith has urged teachers not to view the inclusion of the Human Rights Education Primary Level Resource Manual as additional work, but to instead see it as a creative means of enriching the existing primary curriculum. Senator Monteith was speaking today (December 8), at the launch of the...

Some 200 students, who pursued courses at the Kingston and Mandeville campuses of the Management Institute for National Development (MIND), will receive their certificates of completion at a graduation ceremony slated for Saturday (Dec. 10) at 3:00 p.m. Dr. Edwin Jones, Professor of Public Sector Management at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), will be...

The Jamaica Customs Department is reporting an increase in the amount of illegal imports seized at the island's ports of entry for this year, in comparison to the previous year. Public Relations Manager for Jamaica Customs, Naomi Goulbourne-Rodney told JIS News that for this year, there were some nine seizures for cocaine weighing six kilograms and valued at $9.2 million....

National Co-ordinator of the Poverty Eradication Programme, Dr. Jaslin Salmon, says that while economic growth is one of the major factors that contributes to poverty reduction, and ultimately its eradication, it is not the only factor. "There can be poverty reduction without economic growth," he explain, noting that this was evident in the 1990s. "There are social interventions that one...

The Technical Working Team, reviewing the country's progress towards the National Social Policy Goals, has identified seven key targets that Jamaica should work towards for the next 10 years, in order to improve economic and social conditions for all nationals. The team, which was led by Jennifer Jones, Social Monitoring Specialist of the Jamaica Social Policy Evaluation Project's (JASPEV), and...

Minister of Water and Housing, Donald Buchanan has said that the much-awaited Water Resources Master Plan should be ready by the next fiscal year. The Minister, who made the announcement at the second stakeholder workshop to discuss the Plan, held today at the Knutsford Court Hotel in Kingston, informed that: "discussions now underway between the Water Resources Authority (WRA) and...