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Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Jennifer Griffith, highlighting aspects of the Tourism Workers’ Pension Scheme during a recent Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Tank.

Tourism Workers’ Pension Scheme Development Advanced

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Jennifer Griffith, says plans are advanced for the establishment of the Tourism Workers’ Pension Scheme by early 2020. She advised that details pertaining to the accompanying Tourism Workers’ Pension Act regulations, and recruitment...

Executive Director at the Scientific Research Council, Dr. Cliff Riley, addresses a JIS ‘Think Tank’ today (August 22).

SRC Upgrades Equipment to Assist Manufacturers

Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Hon. Fayval Williams (3rd left), speaks with Chief Executive Officer of the Universal Service Fund (USF), Daniel Dawes (2nd left), and participants in the USF Technology Advancement Programme (TAP), at an orientation session for the programme, held today (August 22) at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston. The participants (from left) are: Danville Hamilton, Sayeed Zyjota, Shanieka Sans and Shantell Edwards.

Technology Minister Says Youth are Getting Crucial Skills

Minister with responsibility for Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Karl Samuda.

Samuda Says Education Officers Have Important Role to Play

Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Hon. Fayval Williams (second right), engages Civil Servant of the Year 2017, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Kerry Ann Spaulding (left); Chair of the Civil Service Week Steering Committee, Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Lorna Phillips (second left), and Chief Executive Officer, First Heritage Co-Operative Credit Union (FHC), Roxann Linton, at the recent launch of the FHC Civil Servants of the Year Award 2019, at the Jamaica Co-operative Credit Union League’s Manhattan Road address in Kingston. Civil Service Week 2019 will be observed from November 17 to 22 under the theme, ‘Building and Sustaining a Culture of Excellence’.

Civil Service Week to be Observed November 17-22

Minister with responsibility for Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Karl Samuda, speaks at the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) 55th Annual Conference, held at Hilton Rose Hall Resort and Spa, in St. James, on Wednesday, August 21.

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Water Survey Soon in Schools

Minister with responsibility for Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Karl Samuda, says the Ministry will be conducting surveys in short order to assess water shortages in affected schools across the country. Addressing the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) 55th Annual Conference, held at Hilton Rose Hall Resort and Spa, in St. James, on August 21, Mr. Samuda said the assessment will...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. J.C. Hutchinson (left), in discussion with Mayor of Black River, Councillor Derrick Sangster (centre), and State Minister in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green, during a tour of farmlands destroyed by fire in Flagaman, St. Elizabeth, on Tuesday (August 20).

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Flagaman Irrigation System Feasibility Study Far Advanced

State Minister in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture, and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green, says the feasibility study being developed for the proposed irrigation system in Flagaman, St. Elizabeth, is far advanced. The system is projected to take water from the Black River to supply some 5,000 farmers whose cultivations are impacted by drought annually. Mr. Green told JIS News...

Participants who graduated from the Dolphin Head Local Forest Management Committee Co-operative Society’s Farmer Field School display their certificates during the ceremony, which was held at the Dolphin Head Reserve in Kingsvale, Hanover, on Wednesday (August 21). A total of 20 persons successfully completed the programme.

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Canada Supports Climate Resilience Efforts in the Caribbean

Development Officer, Public Affairs, at the Canadian High Commission, Nadene Newsome, says Canada is committed to supporting the Caribbean’s climate resilience efforts. Representing High Commissioner of Canada, Her Excellency Laurie Peters, at the graduation ceremony for the Dolphin Head Local Forest Management Committee Co-operative Society’s Farmer Field School, Ms. Newsome noted that in November 2017, following the devastation of hurricanes...

State Minister in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Zavia Mayne (right), shakes hands with St. Mary resident, Wesley Cunningham, during a public consultation on the proposed Codes of Practice for Employment at the St. Mary Parish Church hall in Port Maria, St. Mary, on Wednesday (August 21). Looking on is another resident, Lillieth Patterson.

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Jamaica Council for Persons With Disabilities Being Given Greater Administrative Autonomy

The Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities (JCPD) is being given greater administrative autonomy by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, under which it falls. State Minister, Hon. Zavia Mayne, says that under a newly developed regime, the JCPD will operate as body corporate. “What that means is that it will be able to run things its own way....

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke (centre); Governor of the Bank of Jamaica, Richard Byles (left); and Chairman of the Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC), Keith Duncan, sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to extend domestic monitoring of Jamaica’s economic reform programme by EPOC beyond the end of the Precautionary Stand-By Arrangement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The signing ceremony was held at the Ministry’s National Heroes Circle Offices today (August 22).

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MoU Signed to Extend EPOC’S Monitoring of ERP

The Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC) to extend domestic monitoring of Jamaica’s economic reform programme (ERP) beyond the end of the Precautionary Stand-By Arrangement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The MoU was signed today (August 22) by Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke;...

(FILE) Executive Director of the Jamaica Association for the Deaf (JAD), Kimberley Sherlock Marriott-Blake (right), addressing a JIS Think Tank on August 21. Ms. Deniese Badroe, Business Development Division Director of the JAD looks on.

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JAD Encourages Greater Utilisation of Schools for Children With Hearing Challenges

The Jamaica Association for the Deaf (JAD) is encouraging parents and guardians of children with hearing challenges to enrol them in one of the organisation’s seven institutions catering to these youngsters. “We are appealing to parents and community members who recognise that a child is not responding in the way they should, to give us a call. Even if the...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (centre), officially reopens the rehabilitated Georges River Bridge in East Rural St. Andrew during a ceremony on Wednesday (August 21). Also participating are: Member of Parliament for the constituency, the Most Hon. Juliet Holness (right), and National Works Agency (NWA) Communication and Customer Services Manager, Stephen Shaw.

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Georges River Bridge in St. Andrew Rehabilitated

Residents of Mavis Bank and adjoining areas in East Rural St. Andrew now have easier access to their communities, following the rehabilitation of the Georges River Bridge in the constituency. The bridge, which is located in Violet Bank, was renovated at a cost of $21 million by the National Works Agency (NWA). It was officially re-opened by Prime Minister, the...