More than 200 books and other educational materials have been donated to the Jamaica House Basic School by the Optimist Club of Kingston. The presentation was made at the institution’s West King’s House Road location in St. Andrew on Thursday (February 6), in observance of Optimist International Day. The items included storybooks and colouring books, crayons, counting and reading assistive...

The Transport Authority has partnered with the Island Traffic Authority (ITA) to establish a $16-million satellite office and a retrofitted examination depot in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland. Portfolio Minister, Hon. Robert Montague, said that the facilities, located on Barracks Road, will boost service delivery to stakeholders in western Jamaica. “The $16 million was money well spent because the level of service being...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Alando Terrelonge, is encouraging more students to become bilingual and multilingual speakers, as this will greatly assist their own development and contribute to nation building. He argued that the next generation of Jamaicans will need to be competent in at least one foreign language in order to effectively...

The Scientific Research Council (SRC), as part of its 60th anniversary commemoration, will be staging its ‘Conversations in Science’ series, and is inviting secondary and tertiary institutions to participate in the first session, slated for February 11. “This session will be held at The Mico University gymnasium (Marescaux Road, Kingston) and will focus on females, in keeping with ‘International Day...

Consultant Cardiologist at the Heart Foundation of Jamaica, Dr. Handel Emery, is expressing concern at the increasing prevalence of hypertension in Jamaica. He was speaking at a recent JIS ‘Think Tank’ focusing on Heart Month, being observed in February under the theme ‘High Blood Pressure, the Untold Damage to Kidneys’. Citing the results of the Jamaica Health and Lifestyle Survey...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says students from the pilot cohort of the Hospitality Training Management Programme (HTMP) will sit their final examinations in June of this year. In a message read by Executive Director of the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo), Dr. Andrew Spencer, at the official launch of the National Tourism Debate Competition at the S Hotel...

Parliamentary Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister, Senator Robert Morgan, has called for the establishment of a Bipartisan Commission to look into the funding of tertiary education. Making his contribution to the 2019/20 State of the Nation Debate, in the Senate, on February 7, Mr. Morgan said the Commission would also examine the current challenges relating to the...