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KINGSTON — The Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) is inviting students to enter its Tourism Essay Competition 2011, which is part of a continued thrust to heighten awareness about the tourism product. In an interview with JIS News, Tourism Awareness Officer at the JTB, Shauna Housen, explained that the competition leads up to the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Investment conference to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jamaican-born United States (US) restaurant chain owner, Lowell Hawthorne, O.D., has been appointed the new Chairman of the American Foundation for the University of the West Indies (AFUWI) Partnership Board. This was announced this week by University of the West Indies (UWI) Vice Chancellor, Professor E. Nigel Harris, at the headquarters of the AFUWI, in New York....

MANDEVILLE — Minister of Education, Hon Andrew Holness, says that the safe school laws being drafted, will provide for proper training of drivers of public vehicles transporting students to and from school. The Minister made the announcement Friday April 8, at Holmwood Technical High School, Manchester. Mr. Holness, and Minister of Finance and the Public Service and Member of Parliament...

KINGSTON — The Montego Bay Community College has received an endowment of land, which is to be held in trust for the development of the institution. Cabinet, at its meeting this week, gave the go ahead for the acceptance of the 1.65 hectare (4.13 acres) property located at Queen’s Drive in the second city, from the Dorothy and Marshall M....

HEART/NTA is now investing heavily in the establishment of the Career Advancement Programme which focuses on Jamaican youths who are unable to take advantage of training opportunities and certification programmes because they do not meet the required educational standards. Speaking at a Jamaica House press Briefing yesterday April 6, Minister with responsibility for Information, Daryl Vaz said, the Agency collaborated...

The Montego Bay Community College has received four parcels of land and buildings as a gift from the Dorothy and Marshall M. Reisman Foundation and the waiver of Transfer Tax and Stamp Duties in respect of the transaction. The acceptance of the gift was approved by Cabinet recently. Minister with responsibility for Information, Daryl Vaz said the lands total 4.13...

The Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, and the staff of the Ministry of Education are in mourning following the death of three students and the injury of several others as a result of a motor vehicle crash in Manchester this morning April 7, 2011. The Ministry expresses condolences to the families of those who died, their schools and communities....

MIAMI — Two Jamaican nationals have been elected to head the largest body representing Caribbean American students in Florida. Danika Russell was chosen as the new president of the Florida Caribbean Students Association (FSCA) at the organisation’s 37th annual conference held at the University of Florida campus last weekend, while Courtney J. Greene will serve as vice president of the...

KINGSTON — It was an exciting day at the New Providence Primary School in St. Andrew, as wife of the Governor-General, Her Excellency the Most Hon. Lady Allen, officially launched the Western Union National Reading Week 2011 on Monday (April 4). Students, teachers, politicians, business leaders, journalists and other public figures turned out in their numbers for the official start...

MANDEVILLE — Principal of  Shortwood Teachers' College, Dr. Christopher Clarke, says work done by local researchers can help to tackle much of the challenges facing the education system. “I believe that rather than us being consumers of research done outside of Jamaica, we ourselves can do our own research, tackle our own challenges, find solutions to them and implement them,”...

OCHO RIOS — Principals and bursars within the various education regions are expected to be better able to manage their schools and school funds, having benefited from a two-day workshop on Financial Weakness Management in Schools. The workshop, held from March 29 to March 30 at the Shaw Park Beach Hotel in Ocho Rios, St. Ann, was the second of...

MANDEVILLE — Children of Brandon Hill and surrounding communities, in Clarendon, are now in an environment more conducive to learning, as the new spacious Evelyn Mitchell Infant School/Centre of Excellence, which is equipped with modern facilities, has been opened. At the recent handing over of the school to the Jamaica Baptist Union (JBU), by the Cari-Med Foundation, which built the...