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For Jemima Miller Givans, the stipend earned from being a participant in the Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP), assisted her to complete her tertiary studies. “The programme has helped me to put more money together to help finish my final year at St. Joseph’s Teachers’ College," she informs JIS News. Like Us Facebook for More News and Information Ms. Miller...

The Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities will be staging an Economic Empowerment Seminar on Thursday, October 8, at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, 1F North Street, Kingston, beginning at 10:00 a.m. The workshop, which is held on a quarterly basis, will cater to forty-five persons with special needs, who have applied for a grant from the Council,...

The Ministry of Education will host the Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Conference on advancing the teaching profession starting tomorrow and ending on Thursday (November 6-8, 2012) at the Hilton Rose Hall Hotel in Montego Bay, St. James. The objective of the conference is to establish directions for the implementation of the mandate of the International Task Force on...

Parenting, while a rewarding and satisfying experience, is often an overwhelming, stressful and frustrating job, especially when caring for children with behavioural and disciplinary problems, or special needs. Though some would argue that this is a personal job, many parents would welcome some assistance with this very important role of shaping the future of the next generation. The Government, having...

WASHINGTON — The Chicago Concerned Jamaicans (CCJ) has contributed just over US$700,000 towards education in Jamaica over the past 25 years, providing books, computers and scholarships, and improving libraries.  President of the CCJ President, Ms. Valerie Richards, made the disclosure in Chicago, Illinois, on October 27, at a gala affair celebrating the organisation's 25th anniversary and Jamaica’s Golden Jubilee, at...

Education Minister, Rev. the Hon. Ronald Thwaites, is urging parents to be conscious of the critical role they play in molding the lives of their children. He said not only is good parenting important to the academic advancement of children, but also in enhancing their social development and improving their life expectancy. Mr. Thwaites was speaking during the official launch...

The St. Elizabeth Homecoming Foundation will launch its Students' Empowerment Week at the Newell High School on Monday, November 5, where it will run until November 15. Some 100 persons from different sectors of the society will share their experiences with students at all the schools in the parish during the period. The programme will seek to empower students to:...

Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, said the region needs to address the issue of quality assurance in the delivery of tertiary education. He noted that while there is a free market for higher education, it need not become a "flea market." “We operate in this region under a free market system and the free market extends to the realm...

The Bethlehem Moravian College in St. Elizabeth has introduced a course and a scholarship in Maroon Studies. The course is part of the institution’s four-year Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree programme in History and Social Studies.  Accompong resident, Rushelle Lennon, is the first recipient of the scholarship, which was officially presented at the Accompong Maroons 2012 Conference, held on Sunday...

Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, is encouraging principals across the island to "get their schools in shape" so that they can reopen in the shortest possible time. The Minister was speaking to JIS News today (Oct. 25) while on a tour of the Donald Quarrie High School in Harbour View, Kingston. He informed that 80 per cent of shelters...

  The issue of climate change was the hot topic for scores of students from schools across the island who participated in the 37th United Nations Model Assembly, held at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston, today (October 22). The students, representing various countries, debated the moot, Be it resolved that: ‘Climate change poses the most serious threat to the...

Students and staff at St. Patrick’s Primary School on Bay Farm Road are now enjoying expanded classroom space and a new multi-purpose court. The $31. 27 million upgrading project was funded by the European Union (EU), through its Poverty Reduction Programme being implemented by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF). The scope of works included: construction of six classrooms to...