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Managing Director, Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeney (centre), addresses journalists during a tour of the Port Royal Street Coastal Revetment Project along Port Royal Street, downtown Kingston on Tuesday (September 29). Also on the tour are (from left) Member of Parliament for Central Kingston, Donovan Williams; Acting City Engineer, Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC), Xavier Chevannes; and Mayor of Kingston, Senator Councillor, Delroy Williams.

Port Royal Street Coastal Revetment Project to be Completed by April 2021

Managing Director, Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeney, says the Port Royal Street Coastal Revetment Project, which commenced in March 2020, is slated to be completed April 2021, within time and budget. Speaking to journalists during a tour of...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, addresses the House of Representatives at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston, on September 29.

Revised National Identification and Registration Bill Could Become Law Before Year End

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams (right), looks on as Principal of the Linstead Primary and Junior High School, Gloria Johnson (left), consoles Howard Marshall, stepfather of eight-year-old Naomi Jones, who died tragically at her home in Commodore, St. Catherine, on the weekend. Mrs. Williams and a team from the Ministry visited the grieving family on Tuesday (September 29).

Education Ministry Provides Support to Grieving Family

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Tropical Wave East of Jamaica …Flash Flood Watch Now in Effect

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett

Tourism Ministry to Establish Community Tourism Unit

Marketing Services Manager at the Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC), Janine Fletcher-Taylor.

6 years ago Industry

JBDC Stages Another Virtual Session for Gift and Craft Sector Oct. 1

The Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) will be hosting another session in its virtual training series for entrepreneurs in the gift and craft sector. The event, dubbed ‘JBDC Virtual Gift & Craft Biz Zone’ is scheduled for Thursday (October 1) at 10:00 a.m. via the Zoom platform, under the theme ‘Protecting your Creativity/Creation’. It will be hosted by Copyright and...

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams. (FILE)

6 years ago Education

36,000 Students to Receive $20,000 Subsidy Towards Purchasing Tablets or Laptops

A total of 36,000 needy students, who are not on the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), will benefit from a $20,000 subsidy towards the purchase of a tablet or laptop. Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, made the disclosure during Tuesday’s (September 29) sitting of the House of Representatives at the Jamaica Conference Centre,...

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, addressing Tuesday

6 years ago Education

Education Ministry Partners with Technology Firms to Facilitate Internet Access

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information is partnering with Flow, Digicel and ReadyTV to facilitate Internet access and broadband services to enable teaching and learning utilising the G-Suite learning management system. “This means that all principals, teachers, students and parents can now be engaged in virtual/online teaching and learning activities without the need to utilise their personal Internet data,”...

6 years ago Industry

Businesses Urged to Focus on Branding

Brand Growth Strategist, Mario Romans, is encouraging local businesses to commit to strategic branding principles in order to differentiate themselves in a competitive marketplace. He noted that with various alternatives on the market, consumers can easily move from one product to the next, so it is important that firms set themselves apart from the competition. “When you brand your product,...

Acting Director, Research, Print and Production Division, Jamaica Information Service (JIS), Celia Lindsay (left), makes a presentation to Principal, National Baptist Basic School, Pauline Davis, on Tuesday (September 29), at the offices of Caribbean Flavours and Fragrances Limited, on Spanish Town Road in Kingston.

6 years ago Education

Civil Servants of The Year Hand Over Equipment and Educational Items to Basic School

The National Baptist Basic School on Greenwich Street in Kingston, today (September 29), received well-needed equipment and items, initiated by the three First Heritage Co-Operative Credit Union (FHC) Civil Servants of the Year for 2019, in collaboration with partners. They included a new desktop computer, printer and educational items, and $50,000 from Sagicor for the purchase of school desks and...

Chief Executive Officer of e-Learning Jamaica Limited, Keith Smith.

6 years ago EducationTechnology

Tech Support for Teachers Who Received Tablets

Teachers who received devices under the Government’s ‘Tablets for Teachers’ programme are benefiting from technical support through e-Learning Jamaica (e-LJam). As of September, more than 20,000 public-sector teachers were equipped with a personal tablet as part of the terms of the Heads of Agreement signed between the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) and the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) in 2018. The...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Robert Morgan (left), is presented with a gift bag by Director for the Ministry’s Access to Information Unit, Damian Cox, during Monday’s (September 28) digital launch of the Government’s Records and Information Management (RIM) Programme Implementation for the third cohort of ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) being targeted under the initiative. The Programme’s implementation is being led by the Jamaica Archives and Records Division (JARD), an agency of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, with support from the Cabinet Office.

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Updates on COVID-19 Consistent with UNESCO’s Position on Disclosure

Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Robert Morgan, says government updates on the coronavirus (COVID-19) are consistent with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) position on the disclosure of health-related information to the public. Speaking at the digital launch of the Cohort Three Records and Information Management (RIM) Programme Implementation and...