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More than 850 teachers are expected to benefit from a joint project between the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund and the HEART Trust/NTA to expand training in early childhood education. The project, funded at a cost of $14 million by CHASE over a 12-month period, is expected to come fully on stream in the next two months....

Four of eight buildings currently being rehabilitated at Montpelier in St. James to house Haitian refugees now being accommodated in the eastern end of the island should be completed within a few days. Major rehabilitation work had to be carried out on the buildings including repair of roofing; installation of windows, doors and plumbing fixtures; upgrading electrical works and putting...

Minister of Information, Senator Burchell Whiteman, has said that inter-agency collaboration was important for the optimum and efficient use of resources. "We need to encourage more of our leaders to see the value of this partnership approach, this collaborative approach, because the more we come together the more creative ideas emerge, the more avenues we find for doing the things...

The National Commercial Bank (NCB) has donated $5 million towards the May Pen Cemetery Restoration Fund.Mayor of Kingston, Councillor Desmond McKenzie, commended the entity for its continued support of the improvement drive. He was speaking on Wednesday (March 24) at the bank's headquarters on Trafalgar Road in Kingston. He noted that the donation would go a "far way" toward the...

State Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Delano Franklyn, is anticipating that the upcoming conference on the Jamaican Diaspora will inform the creation of a policy on overseas donations and grants. He observed that donations and grants from overseas Jamaicans to various local charities were not done in an organised fashion, adding that those who were willing to...

Minister of Development, Dr. Paul Robertson, has said that the country was very much affected by global warming, and like other small island states, was three times more vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate changes. "Perhaps the most serious environmental challenge facing us as a result of global climate change is sea level rise as well as escalation in...

More than 850 teachers are expected to benefit from a joint project between the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund and the HEART Trust/NTA to expand training in early childhood education. The project, funded at a cost of $14 million by CHASE over a 12-month period, is expected to come fully on stream in the next two months....

Four of eight buildings currently being rehabilitated at Montpelier in St. James to house Haitian refugees now being accommodated in the eastern end of the island should be completed within a few days. Major rehabilitation work had to be carried out on the buildings including repair of roofing; installation of windows, doors and plumbing fixtures; upgrading electrical works and putting...

Minister of Information, Senator Burchell Whiteman, has said that inter-agency collaboration was important for the optimum and efficient use of resources. "We need to encourage more of our leaders to see the value of this partnership approach, this collaborative approach, because the more we come together the more creative ideas emerge, the more avenues we find for doing the things...

The National Commercial Bank (NCB) has donated $5 million towards the May Pen Cemetery Restoration Fund.Mayor of Kingston, Councillor Desmond McKenzie, commended the entity for its continued support of the improvement drive. He was speaking on Wednesday (March 24) at the bank's headquarters on Trafalgar Road in Kingston. He noted that the donation would go a "far way" toward the...

State Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Delano Franklyn, is anticipating that the upcoming conference on the Jamaican Diaspora will inform the creation of a policy on overseas donations and grants. He observed that donations and grants from overseas Jamaicans to various local charities were not done in an organised fashion, adding that those who were willing to...

Minister of Development, Dr. Paul Robertson, has said that the country was very much affected by global warming, and like other small island states, was three times more vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate changes. "Perhaps the most serious environmental challenge facing us as a result of global climate change is sea level rise as well as escalation in...