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Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, will be at the Ritz Carlton in Montego Bay, St. James this week and will be addressing the Eighteenth Meeting of the CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD), which is scheduled to take place from Wednesday June 3, 2009, to Thursday, June 4, 2009. COHSOD is being held under the theme "Winds...

Assistant Chief Education Officer in the Ministry of Education, Evadne Vennor, has said that the Ministry is committed to creating the quality environment at the early childhood level to build a solid foundation for the future. She said that when children get a good start at the basic level, they acquire skills that will enable them to strive at the...

The Mico Care Centre in Mandeville, Manchester, in partnership with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), has successfully helped more than 350 children with various learning problems, in the last two years. Speaking at a recent stakeholders meeting, held at the centre, Co-ordinator of the institution, Maxine Anderson, said the collaboration between Mico Care and UNICEF represents a valuable and...

The Porus Infant School in Manchester honoured 14 of its stalwarts, for contributing to the institution's development at an appreciation function, held at the Ridgemount United Church in Mandeville on May 27. Those honoured included former Board Chairman, Rose Thomas, and current Vice Chairman, Joseph Thompson; teachers, Deb Geri Chambers, Beverly Lambert, Maurine Brooks, and Julian McGregor-Williams; ancillary staff, Velma...

Chief of Defence Staff of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), Major General Stewart Saunders, has urged graduates of the Caribbean Junior Command and Staff Course, to recognise the immense value of working together in partnership. "The course has equipped you with the requisite knowledge to enable you to improve the systems and procedures of your present organisations, to understand the...

In an effort to ensure that Jamaica's tertiary institutions produce graduates of varying disciplines, which is critical to national development, the Student Loan Bureau (SLB) has devised various methods to steer potential graduates into selected areas of 'preferential' study. "We know that for any country, or for any company, to develop, it has to have areas that are linked to...

The police are investigating the disappearance of the body of a newborn baby - one of a set of twin - from the Mandeville Regional Hospital in Manchester. The baby's body was discovered missing from the facility's morgue by hospital administrators when the parents turned up to collect the baby's body, after being asked to do so by hospital officials....

A team of United States army officers recently completed renovations to the Bull Bay All Age School in Western St. Thomas, the constituency of Energy and Mining Minister James Robertson. The team paved the school walkway, fixed the water system in the bathrooms, installed new toilets and painted sections of the school. They also refurbished the kitchen and installed a...

The Optimist Club of Mandeville will tomorrow (May 30) stage a gospel concert at the Manchester High School, to raise funds to carry out infrastructural improvement at the Top Hill All-Age School in the parish. President of the Club, Kaysi-Ann Spence, informed that the funds raised will be used to rehabilitate the bathrooms, improve water storage, conduct roof repairs, and...

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers of Health and Education will be involved in two meetings in Montego Bay, Jamaica next week. First they will convene the Eighteenth Meeting of the CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) and then will meet with their Latin American counterparts in preparation for a meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)....

Alison and Michael Brooks expressed joy as their daughter, Ashleigh, was named winner of the inaugural Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Child Month Essay Competition, yesterday (May 27), at the JIS Television studio, Arnold Road, Kingston. Their reactions mirrored pride, relief and happiness that, Ashleigh, a grade three student of Mona Preparatory School made it from among the six finalists, which...

Principal of the Half-Way-Tree Primary School in Kingston, Catherine Malcolm, is appealing to schools and other education stakeholders to begin preparing students for the Grade 4 Literacy Test from as early as Grade 1. "Don't wait to prepare for Grade 4. I don't agree with that and we don't need the Ministry of Education to tell us that we had...