The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has described the late former administrator Pat Anderson as “one of the pioneers who laid the foundation for Jamaica’s success in sports.” Mr Anderson, who led both the Jamaica Football Federation and the Jamaica Amateur Athletic Association (now Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association) during his long career in sports,...

The island’s tourism product has been boosted with the graduation of the first cohort of 150 certified hospitality workers from the Jamaica Centre of Tourism Innovation (JCTI). The JCTI, which was created to increase access to certification for recent graduates as well as workers in the industry, saw, for the first time, persons being accredited as Hospitality Supervisors and in...

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, says the Government will be pumping $150 million into improving the aesthetic appeal of markets across the island. He said the investment “represents one of the highest expenditures… over the past five years on markets across the country” and charged vendors to take care of the improved facilities that will...

Kingston’s Mayor, Senator Councillor Delroy Williams, says strengthening relationships at the local government level is key to building better Caribbean cities. “We believe that will serve us well in the City of Kingston and will also serve the cities, towns and municipalities across the Caribbean region,” the Mayor said. He was speaking at today’s (April 10) meeting of the Kingston...

Over the next two years, the Jamaica Productivity Centre (JPC) will benefit from the expertise of a quality management specialist out of Japan. An independent consultant in that country, Atsuo Kanai, who has 30 years’ experience as a production engineer, will provide voluntary services to the JPC beginning April 18. Productivity improvement will be the key focus area for Mr....

Three persons, including a ward of the State, are being considered for national honours for their acts of bravery during the fire at the Walker’s Place of Safety earlier this year that took the lives of two children and destroyed the Lyndhurst Crescent-based facility. Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green, made the...

The Hazard Skills Training Centre in Clarendon, which provides certification for residents in collaboration with the Heart Trust /NTA, now has a new, more spacious home on the compound of the McLaren Engineering Company in Palmers Cross in the parish. McLaren Engineering, which is a family-operated establishment, offered the space for lease for 100 years at a cost of $1....