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Jamaica is among several countries participating in a Financial Sector Assessment Programme (FSAP), aimed at assessing the soundness of the financial system and its vulnerability to shocks. The assessments, which are conducted jointly by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, in collaboration with the participating country, also review the observance and implementation of the relevant international financial sector...

Prime Minister P.J. Patterson will discuss a range of issues related to democracy and development when he delivers the keynote address next Saturday, at an event being sponsored by the Ralph Bunche International Affairs Centre at Howard University in Washington D.C. The event, which is also being co-sponsored by the National Coalition on Caribbean Affairs (NCOCA), TransAfrica Forum and the...

Minister of Education, Youth and Culture, Maxine Henry-Wilson has commended the contributions of the New Horizon for Primary Schools projects and the Jamaica Library Service (JLS), toward the improvement of literacy levels in schools across the island. In making her contribution to the Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (May 10), she informed that students, teachers, parents...

The Education Ministry will be expanding existing literacy programmes this year, as part of efforts to improve the performance of students at the primary level. Education, Youth and Culture Minister Maxine Henry-Wilson, in her contribution to the 2005/06 Sectoral Debate in Gordon House on May 10, said that while the results of the Grade Four Literacy Test and the Grade...

Minister of Education, Youth and Culture, Maxine Henry-Wilson, has stated the Ministry's intention to develop a Civics and Moral Education Curriculum to support offerings at the early childhood, primary and secondary levels. Making her contribution to the 2005/06 Sectoral Debate in Gordon House on May 10, Minister Henry-Wilson said the curriculum "seeks to build in the children the requisite knowledge,...

The Education, Youth and Culture Ministry is to convene a series of island wide consultations in preparation for the introduction of a licensing and recertification system for all of the island's teachers. Education Minister Maxine Henry-Wilson, who made the announcement during her contribution to the 2005/06 Sectoral Debate in Gordon House on May 10, said the issue of professional retooling...

Minister of Health, John Junor has said that the government's vision for the sector was one in which the system was client-centred, providing guaranteed access to quality health care for every person at reasonable costs, and taking into account the vulnerable among the country's population. He explained that the vision "is based on the concept of individuals taking responsibility for...

Health Minister, John Junor has announced plans for further expansion of benefits provided by the National Health Fund (NHF). He pointed out that medication for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia or enlarged prostate would now be added to the Jamaica Drugs for the Elderly Programme (JADEP) and the NHF, once the necessary approval process was completed. Minister Junor, who was making his...

Jamaica is among several countries participating in a Financial Sector Assessment Programme (FSAP), aimed at assessing the soundness of the financial system and its vulnerability to shocks. The assessments, which are conducted jointly by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, in collaboration with the participating country, also review the observance and implementation of the relevant international financial sector...

Prime Minister P.J. Patterson will discuss a range of issues related to democracy and development when he delivers the keynote address next Saturday, at an event being sponsored by the Ralph Bunche International Affairs Centre at Howard University in Washington D.C. The event, which is also being co-sponsored by the National Coalition on Caribbean Affairs (NCOCA), TransAfrica Forum and the...

Minister of Education, Youth and Culture, Maxine Henry-Wilson has commended the contributions of the New Horizon for Primary Schools projects and the Jamaica Library Service (JLS), toward the improvement of literacy levels in schools across the island. In making her contribution to the Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (May 10), she informed that students, teachers, parents...

The Education Ministry will be expanding existing literacy programmes this year, as part of efforts to improve the performance of students at the primary level. Education, Youth and Culture Minister Maxine Henry-Wilson, in her contribution to the 2005/06 Sectoral Debate in Gordon House on May 10, said that while the results of the Grade Four Literacy Test and the Grade...