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Minister of Health, the Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson. (FILE)

Ministry of Health Activates Emergency Protocols Due to Absenteeism of Nurses

The Ministry of Health has activated its emergency protocols after high levels of absenteeism by Registered Nurses – with an overall average of 52 percent - have been reported at several health facilities across the island. While there has been...

Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites addresses students. (FILE)

Teachers To Be Trained To Improve The Way Boys Learn

Acting Director of the Application and Certification Department at the FLA, Letline Allen, shares all the improvements and innovations that led to the Authority to be one of six public sector organizations shortlisted in the Public Sector Customer Service Competition, at a JIS ‘Think Tank’, on September 2.

FLA Shortlisted in Customer Service Competition

Governor General, His Excellency, the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen (left) looks on, as Hon. Justice Marva McDonald Bishop, takes the Oath of Allegiance and the Judicial Oath during the swearing-in of judges at King’s House in St. Andrew on September 14.

Judges Urged To Be Efficient In Dispensing Justice

National Literacy Coordinator, Dr. Andre Hill, speaking at a Back-to-School press conference on September 3.

Every School To Have Literacy Coordinator

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Elaine Foster Allen addressing a ceremony to launch the 2015/16 school year at the Fidel Castro Campus of the Anchovy High School in St. James on Friday (September 11).

11 years ago Education

Teachers Hailed for Role in Country Exceeding Literacy Mastery Target

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Elaine Foster Allen, is lauding the nation’s teachers for the critical role they played in the country exceeding the target for mastery in literacy at the grade four level. The grade four cohort achieved 86.5 per cent mastery in this year’s sitting of the Grade Four Literacy Test. This represents a 1.5 per...

Minister of National Security, Hon. Peter Bunting, addresses the Western Jamaica Seventh Day Adventist Leadership Conference in Mount Salem, Montego Bay on Sunday, September 13.

11 years ago National Security

Church Urged To Stand Up Against Lottery Scamming

National Security Minister, Hon. Peter Bunting, has called on churches in western Jamaica to take a stand against lottery scamming. “In western Jamaica we have one of the most corrosive of activities… and that is lottery scamming. This is not something we think the church has taken on frontally. One pastor told me recently that he preached against lottery scamming...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller (3rd right) leads a group of officials in witnessing the raising of the Jamaican flag. Sharing the occasion from left are Chairman of the Anchovy High School Board, Calvin Brown, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and Member of Parliament for South St. James, Hon. Derrick Kellier, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Mrs. Elaine Foster Allen, Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, Cuban Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Bernardo Guanche Hernandez and Mrs. Hernandez. Mrs. Simpson Miller on Friday (September 11), officially opened the Fidel Castro Campus of the Anchovy High School located in Montpelier, St. James.

11 years ago Education

Don’t Lock Out Students – Rev. Thwaites

Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, is appealing to schools not to turn away students, who breach dress or other codes. He said they should be kept at school as a means of protecting them. “I am appealing to principals and teachers…do not raise issues that will keep children out of school. Parents must make every effort to ensure...

Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, is speaking at the launch of the 2015/16 school year at the Fidel Castro Campus of the Anchovy High School in St. James on Friday, September 11.

11 years ago Education

Tablets in Schools Programme Will Not Be Halted – Rev. Thwaites

Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, says the Tablets in Schools programme will not be halted or curtailed, even as he welcomes the call for an audit of the pilot phase of the initiative. “Yes, we agree in the Ministry of Education and in the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining that the Tablets in Schools programme will be...

Workmen carrying out welding works on the Caymanas to Linstead section of the north south link of Highway 2000.

11 years ago Transport

Work on North South Link of Highway 2000 Far Advanced

The North South link of Highway 2000 is 81 per cent complete, as the proposed January 2016 completion date nears. This was disclosed by Director of Technical Services at the National Road Operating and Constructing Company (NROCC), Stephen Shaw, in an interview with JIS News. According to Mr. Shaw, total works are approximately 86 per cent complete on section three....

Two new state-of-the-art air traffic control towers, constructed at a cost of $2.57 billion, are to be commissioned into service at the island’s two major international airports within the next two to three months.

11 years ago TransportWorks / Construction

New Air Traffic Control Towers to be Commissioned By December

Two new state-of-the-art air traffic control towers, constructed at a cost of $2.57 billion, are to be commissioned into service at the island’s two major international airports within the next two to three months. This was disclosed by the Director General of the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (JCAA), Nari Williams-Singh, at a recent JIS Think Tank. He informed that at...

Chairman of the Joint Board of Teacher Education, Dr. Rose Davies speaking at the launch of the United Way of Jamaica’s 30th Anniversary Early Childhood Education Legacy Programme. The event was held recently at the Courtleigh Hotel and Suites in New Kingston.

11 years ago Education

Associate Degree in Early Childhood Education Now Underway

A pilot programme for the Associate Degree in Early Childhood Education, is currently underway in several teaching institutions across the island. The Associate Degree, introduced by the Ministry of Education in September 2014, was designed by the Joint Board of Teacher Education (JBTE) and aims to improve the competencies of instructors in delivering material to their young pupils. The programme...