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Representatives of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) and the Government signed an agreement Tuesday (September 29) at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Kingston, for the payment of salary arrears amounting to $8 billion. The parties agreed that the payments will be made as follows: Year 1 (2010-2011) - $4 billion, payable in two equal installments in May and...

More than 200 teachers graduated from the Catholic College of Mandeville (CCM), in Manchester, on September 27. The graduates, who gained qualifications ranging from Diplomas to Bachelor's degrees in teacher education, were encouraged by President of the College, Dr. Una O'Connor, to continue to the next level of qualification. Addressing the graduates at the Kendal Conference Centre, in the parish,...

Corporate Jamaica is being asked to offer more scholarships to persons, who want to pursue careers in sport. This call came from the Director of Sports at the University of Technology (UTech), Anthony Davis, while speaking at a press conference and reception on Saturday (Sept. 26) in the VIP lounge at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston. The event...

Jamaicans are being trained to fill practical nursing vacancies in Canada. The provision is being made under the Licensed Practical Nursing (LPN) Programme, which involves collaboration with the Government of Jamaica, the Centre For Nursing Studies (CNS) in Canada and Marmicmon Integrated Marketing and Communications. Training sites are: the Nuttall Hospital in Kingston; the Brown's Town Community College in St....

Hundreds of students, many courting careers in the Maritime sector, converged at the Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMI) for three days last week, to learn more about the Maritime industry, at the institution's annual Open Day activities. Director of the CMI, Mr. Fritz Pinnock, explained that the three-day exhibition, which aimed to expose the Jamaican public, particularly students, to the offerings...

In an exciting nail biting finish, Sydney Pagon Agricultural High School defeated defending champion, Knockalva Agricultural High, and newcomer, Ebony Park HEART Academy, to win the second Pesticides Awareness Week Agricultural Schools Quiz Competition. The contest, sponsored by the Pesticides Control Authority (PCA), was held on Thursday (September 24) at Sydney Pagon Agriculture High, Elim, St. Elizabeth. The host school...

A boost in the number of Pharmacy and Dialysis Technicians entering the health sector is expected to result from the opening of a training school at the Lionel Town Hospital, Clarendon. At a ceremony on Wednesday (September 23) on the grounds of the hospital, Technical Director for the Southern Regional Health Authority, Keith Shakespeare, said that the Southern Regional Health...

Minister of Education, Hon Andrew Holness, has disclosed that the Government is contemplating a savings programme to support Jamaicans pursuing tertiary education. "We are setting up something called the National Education Trust Fund, and a part of that will be to manage a contributory payment scheme to help, in the future, when you are going to university," he said. He...

Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, has outlined eight key traits possessed by today's youths that, he says, will rescue Jamaica and the rest of the world from the current economic crisis. Mr. Holness said that among the best qualities of the current generation are their principles of freedom, customisation, scrutiny, collaboration, speed, integrity, innovation and entertainment. "We quarrel about...

The Helping Hands Jamaica Foundation (HHJF) is a young organisation that has done a lot of good in its three short years of existence. Formed in 2006 with a mandate to assist Jamaica's health and education sectors, the organisation has so far donated more than C$127,000 (J$9 million) to its Jamaican recipients. Committed to making a difference for its recipients,...

The Government has added $600 million to the budget for the School Feeding Programme for 2009/10 under the Ministry of Education. According to the figures available in the First Supplementary Estimates tabled in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (September 22), the additional $600 million increases the budget for the students' nutrition programme in 2009/10 from $932,110 to $1.5 billion....

Minister of National Security, Sen. the Hon. Dwight Nelson, has congratulated thirteen (13) juveniles at the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre in St. Catherine, who have obtained passes in the 2009 Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) examinations. The juveniles obtained between one and three passes in Principles of Business, Principles of Accounts and Social Studies. In his letter congratulating the inmates,...