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Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture, Dr. Donald Rhodd, has said that education was the vehicle that would transform the country and place it on a sustainable path to development. He suggested that a sustained campaign and programme be adopted to declare 2004 a national year of education. "I would like to submit that we...

The Government's information and communication technology (ICT) project, which aims to transform the way business is done in Jamaica, has been designed to facilitate growth in the economy. It was initiated against the background that a well developed ICT infrastructure can fast track the economy along the information super-highway. The project, which began officially with the signing of a US$17...

Minister of National Security, Dr. Peter Phillips, stating that crime had become a major impediment to the country's economic progress, placing Jamaican companies at a disadvantage against their competitors, has declared that efforts were under way to reverse the crime trend affecting the island. "We must send a message that crime does not pay," Minister Phillips said at the first...

Director General in the Ministry of Development and Chairman of the Jamaica Tourist Board, Dennis Morrison, has said Jamaicans abroad have gained increasing significance in light of changes in the global marketplace. He was speaking at the inaugural symposium, 'The Jamaican Diaspora- Reciprocal Relations the Way Forward' held recently at the University of the West Indies in Kingston. The symposium...

Six retired education officers from Region Three of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture, have been recognized for 67 years of invaluable service to education. The honourees, Dorothea Walker, Ivy Cummings, Pauline Ritchie, Joyce Richards, Jean Beckford and Linsiroy Nelson, were saluted recently by colleagues, ministry officials, teachers and friends, at an appreciation function, organized by the Ministry, at...

Youth.now recently hosted a peer education seminar in Clarendon, as part of efforts to promote healthy sexual lifestyles among young people in 10-15 age group. At the seminar held at the Hotel Versalles in May Pen, Youth.now parish coordinator, Norman Campbell, said that the event was aimed at teaching adolescents responsible sexual habits to prevent early pregnancies and sexually transmitted...

Chief Justice Lensley Wolfe has defended Jamaica's record of delivery of Justice, emphasising that the country has an excellent justice system. Mr. Wolfe said that while it was not possible to find a perfect justice system anywhere in the world, Jamaica had done well in dispensing justice, adding that the perceived slowness in the system was attributable to the fact...

Eighty-eight-year-old, Lucille Tomlinson was among 60 persons from Phase Seven (Mexico) in Arnett Gardens who received titles to their homes at a handing over ceremony at the Avon Park Community Centre on Thursday(Nov. 6). Mrs. Tomlinson told JIS News that she was feeling "fine" because after living in her home for the past 25 years she has finally owned it....

Minister of National Security, Dr. Peter Phillips, left the island on November 5 for New York and Washington, D.C., to meet with members of the overseas Jamaican community, to discuss several issues, including crime and violence. This is an on-going initiative among the Government of Jamaica, the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica (PSOJ), and the Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS)....

Errol Miller, Professor of Teacher Education at the Institute of Education at the University of the West Indies, Mona, has expressed the view that information technology was presently the greatest symbol of progress and being on the cutting edge. He urged therefore that it was very important to utilise technology in education, not only because it was technology, but because...

Chairman of the National Poppy Appeal Committee, Lt. Col. Oral Khan, is appealing to Jamaicans to support the drive this Remembrance weekend (November 8 to 9), and especially Remembrance Day, which will be celebrated on Sunday, November 9. "This weekend we'll be having the assistance of the Jamaica Cadet Combined Force, whose members will be out on the streets at...

The Canadian government has provided funding for a group from that country to continue its work of poverty relief and development assistance in Jamaica. The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), has disbursed Cdn$500,000 to the Jamaica Self-Help (JSH) organization, so the group can continue its 25-year work of providing education and leadership skills to some of Jamaica's poor. Executive Director...