Patrons attending the St. Mary Agri-Expo on Monday, April 1, will experience the addition of a Youth in Agriculture Village. This year’s activities will be held under the theme ‘Nourishing our future; Safeguarding farms, ensuring food security’. President of the St. Mary Associate Branch Society, the parish arm of the Jamaica Agricultural Society, Fabian Rhule, said this year’s show, the...

The Ministry of Education and Youth will be seeking to scale up literacy intervention programmes in schools across Jamaica. The Jamaica Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2022: Situation of Women and Children, launched on Friday (March 15) at the University of the West Indies Regional Headquarters in St. Andrew, reported that the level at which students aged seven to 14...

Newly recruited correctional officers are being encouraged to be agents of change as they carry out their role in rehabilitating incarcerated persons. “I want to remind you as you step into the field, that you all play a significant role in impacting the lives of those you serve during the journey of rehabilitation and transformation,” said Commissioner of Corrections at...

Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says the generation of ideas is key to driving continuous changes that facilitate the constant emergence of innovations in the local hospitality industry. “Ideas are what drive tourism. Tourism doesn’t happen with repeating business activities on a daily basis; [it] grows because there are changes. [Where] there is innovation, there is value added,” Mr. Bartlett...

The Financial Investigations Division (FID) is to engage a private company of professional realtors, in keeping with the procurement rules, to market and sell forfeited properties valued at billions of dollars. Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, made the disclosure as he opened the Budget Debate in the House of Representatives, recently. “Currently, the...

Mayor of Montego Bay, Richard Vernon, says there continues to be a critical need for further educational development, particularly at the tertiary level, to drive economic activities. Speaking at the launch of the Jill Stewart MoBay City Run, at the Holiday Inn in Rose Hall, St. James, on March 13, Mr. Vernon pointed out that Jamaica's tertiary education enrolment rate...

Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, engages with students at Immaculate Conception High School as they embrace the new wellness bench installed at the institution. Dr. Tufton visited the St. Andrew-based school on Monday (March 18) for a wellness check-in as part of the Ministry’s #DoYourShare mental wellness campaign.