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Licensing Regime to Professionalise Teaching

Chief Executive Officer of the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC), Dr. Winsome Gordon, says the Government’s move to implement a regime for the licensing and registration of teachers is aimed at ensuring greater levels of accountability and professionalism in teaching. “There...

Labour and Social Security Minister, Hon. Shahine Robinson (6th right), poses with members of the farm work programme in Albany, New York, USA, during a visit on Tuesday, August 14.

Gov’t Looking to Strengthen Jamaica-USA Seasonal Work Programme

Executive Director, Economic Growth Council, Senator Aubyn Hill (left); Vice Principal, Academic Affairs, Shortwood Teachers’ College, Dr. Claudette Barrett-March (centre) and Regional Mathematics Coordinator, Ms. Pauline Thames-Baker, examine PR1ME textbooks students currently use in primary schools across the island. The books were on display at the ‘Amazing Mathematics Powers… PR1Med for Success Workshop’, at Shortwood Teachers’ College in Kingston, on August 21.

Senator Hill Emphasises Importance of Improved Performance in Maths

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (left), discusses the progress of work for the construction the Jamaica Public Service’s (JPS) 190 megawatt (MW) power plant in Old Harbour Bay, St. Catherine, with JPS President and Chief Executive Officer, Emanuel DaRosa. Mr. Holness was on a tour of the project site on Tuesday (August 21).

‘Renaissance Project’ Can Potentially Spur Increased Investments in Jamaica – PM Holness

Their Excellencies, Governor-General the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen (10th left) and Lady Allen (10th right), along with recipients and sponsors of the Summer of Service awards during the presentation ceremony at King's House on Tuesday (August 21).

GG Encourages Youth to Keep Pace with Changes in the Work Environment

Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security, Hon. Rudyard Spencer (centre), interacts with inmates at the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre, in Spanish Town, St. Catherine, today (August 21), while on a visit to the facility to participate in the opening ceremony of the ‘We Transform’ sports day.

8 years ago National Security and Peace

State Minister Says Incarcerated Persons Should Leave Transformed

Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, has reiterated his call that incarcerated persons should leave the penal system transformed. Addressing the opening session of the ‘We Transform’ sports day, held at the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre, in Spanish Town, St. Catherine, today (August 21), Mr. Spencer said juveniles must make the best of...

Former Chief Air Traffic Controller at the Sangster International Airport, Karen Green (standing), oversees Air Traffic Controllers, Allison McIntosh (right) and Shanique Malcolm (left), as they perform duties in the Air Traffic Control Tower

8 years ago Transport

More Women in the Control Tower

Over the past few years there has been a steady increase in the number of female Air Traffic Controllers in Jamaica, with women currently outnumbering men at the Sangster International Airport Tower, in Montego Bay. One of the women, Shanique Malcolm, tells JIS News that she has been an Air Traffic Controller since October 2013. Miss Malcolm says although she...

Chairman, HEART Trust/NTA, Edward Gabbidon (left), converses with the agency’s Managing Director, Dr. Janet Dyer (centre); and Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, E-Media Interactive Group, Tyrone Wilson (right). The occasion was HEART Trust/NTA’s World Entrepreneurs’ Day symposium and workshop, which was held at The Knutsford Court Hotel, New Kingston, on August 21 under the theme ‘Rise on the Heels of Success’.

8 years ago Economic Growth & Infrastructure DevelopmentInformationVision 2030Youth

HEART Trust’s Reassignment to OPM Consistent with Growth Agenda

Chairman, HEART Trust/NTA, Edward Gabbidon, says the strategic placing of the Agency at the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) is in line with the country’s growth agenda. “Placing HEART at the OPM is strategically in line with our 2030 vision and [the] goal is to promote entrepreneurships, start-ups and an option to spur economic growth. It is for this...

Vice President of Research, Advocacy and Project Implementation at Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), Shullette Cox, speaks on investments at a JIS ‘Think Tank’.

8 years ago Agriculture

Investor Confidence Very High

Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO) is reporting that investor confidence in the country is at an unprecedented all-time high, due to the stability of the economy and improved business environment. In an interview with JIS News, Vice President of Research, Advocacy and Project Implementation at JAMPRO, Shullette Cox, said that one of the greatest successes of the economic programme is the...

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. Kamina Johnson Smith.

8 years ago Foreign Affairs

Johnson Smith Extends Condolences to the Family of Victims of Collapsed Bridge in Italy

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade has confirmed that an Italian family, Mr. Cristian Cecal, his Jamaican-born wife, Dawna Munroe and their nine-year-old daughter Crystal, who was also born in Jamaica, were sadly amongst the 43 casualties of a collapsed bridge in Genoa, Italy on August 15. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. Kamina...

Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, speaking during the Caribbean Broadcasting Union’s (CBU) recent Caribbean Broadcasting Awards (CBA) ceremony at the Courtleigh Auditorium in New Kingston. The event, which honoured broadcast media executives from the English, Dutch, French and Spanish Caribbean, was held under the theme: ‘Building Resilience to Climate Change: Business, Content and Technology Options for Caribbean Media’.

8 years ago Tourism

Tourism Minister Calls for Regional Collaboration to Counter Climate Change

Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, is calling for collaboration between Caribbean media interests, and public and private sector entities to develop strategies designed to strengthen regional resilience to the impact of climate change. He noted that Jamaica and the wider Caribbean have a major stake in how the climate change phenomenon is dealt with, adding that “we do not have...

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (left), and Executive Chairman of the Guardsman Group, Kenneth Benjamin (2nd right), shake hands to symbolise the formal handover of a solar energy system to the Bustamante Hospital for Children during a ceremony at the hospital in Kingston on Monday (August 20). Also pictured (from second left) are: Managing Director of the Guardsman Group, Vinay Walia; and Acting Chief Executive Officer, Bustamante Hospital for Children, Karlene Taylor McKenzie. The system, which has already been installed, was donated by the Guardsman Group to power the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

8 years ago Health & Wellness

Children’s Hospital to Save Millions of Dollars

The Bustamante Hospital for Children, in Kingston, is expected to save $28 million in energy costs over the next 20 years, through the installation of a solar energy system. The system, which was donated by the Guardsman Group to power the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU), is a pilot project facilitated by Future Energy Corporation. This donation was made possible...