The Government is providing grant funding of $1 million to youth, to establish small businesses in the Blue and John Crow Mountains. Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Minister, Hon. Olivia Grange, says the provision, which will target young people aged 18 to 35 years, aims to stimulate their empowerment. “We are insisting that the businesses demonstrate the use of Jamaican...

The Bustamante Hospital for Children’s Learning and Activity room has been outfitted as a state-of-the-art learning centre with the donation of several computers and accessories through the Governor-General’s ‘I Believe’ initiative. The handover ceremony for the equipment was held on October 17 at the hospital’s Arthur Wint Drive address in Kingston. The donation, which was made by the United States-based...

The Government has initiated a youth-development programme to engage young people in the promotion of peace while building the capacity of youth clubs to steer community growth. According to State Minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green, under the youth club rebuilding initiative, dubbed ‘Youth Club Charge Up’, from which the groups are provided with...

The Scientific Research Council (SRC) is staging a two-day symposium aimed at improving the delivery of science education at the primary and secondary levels. Approximately 200 mathematics and science teachers are expected to participate in the event, which opened on Tuesday (October 17) at the Mona Visitors’ Lodge of the University of the West Indies (UWI). It will promote interventions...

The Fi Wi Jamaica project is employing one of the most popular and influential elements of Jamaica’s culture – music – to promote positive behaviour among citizens while creating streams of revenue. “The project has identified music as a key tool, which can be utilised to create somewhat of a paradigm shift as it relates to general conduct,” said Cultural...

Laptops with the requisite software and valued at $13.5 million were handed over to 40 members of the community of persons with disabilities today (October 12), to help them in their daily lives. The items were acquired through the Universal Service Fund (USF) and handed over to students at the tertiary level and those employed, including the hearing impaired, physically...

Vice Chancellor, University of the West Indies, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, has renewed the call for reparations valuing £76 billion be paid to the descendants of enslaved people of the Caribbean by former European slave-trading nation, Britain. “The £20 million that they paid to the slave owners should have been paid to the enslaved. We have to make a claim...

The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, officially launched a Centre for Reparation Research on October 10 at the campus. It is geared towards supporting the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) reparatory justice movement, building awareness and conducting research that will advance the claim to Europeans for reparation for native genocide, African enslavement, deceptive indenture, colonialism and its legacies. Establishment of...

Interim President of the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE), Dr. Derrick Deslandes, plans to transform the multidisciplinary tertiary institution into a university within the next five years. He said that in order to achieve the objective, more research-based academic staff will be hired and new methods and technologies introduced, such as clean plant material to improve farmer productivity;...