The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has partnered with the Northern Caribbean University-owned radio station, NCU FM, to do school tours across the island to sensitise students, teachers and communities about the Acts of Random Kindness (ARK) project. The initiative, which is a violence interruption and prevention initiative geared at promoting kindness to combat destructive thoughts, words and actions, has been...

The Students’ Union of the University of Technology (UTech) is continuing its fight against violence through its annual fundraising Tag Drive, which is being held this year under the theme ‘Keep the Peace, Save our Streets’. Dubbed ‘a special campaign seeking to stop violence against women’, the Tag Drive, now in its 52nd year, is set to take the message...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (right), greets Ambassador Designate of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Nguyen Trung Thanh, when he arrived at the Office of the Prime Minister for a courtesy call on Thursday (February 22).

Cabinet has given approval for nutraceuticals to be named as a separate category in the country’s Food and Drug Act. Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Dr. the Hon. Andrew Wheatley, said this decision was taken following “decades of lobbying and advocacy by the medical and scientific communities”. “No longer can we ignore the scientific evidence that supports the efficacies...

The Government has reopened the $40-million renovated Muirton Child Care Facility in Portland, to serve boys with learning challenges. Located in the community of Manchioneal, the home is equipped to care for boys with intellectual disabilities, and to develop their social and entrepreneurial capabilities in agriculture, computer science and the arts. Speaking at the official ceremony for the reopening of...

Boys outperformed girls in the Jamaica Social Investment Fund’s (JSIF) 2017 School Science Quiz Competition. JSIF Social Development Manager, Mona Sue-Ho, said of the 30 students who reached the finals, 17 scored 85 per cent or more, and, of that number, 11 were boys and six were girls. “Of our top-10 performers, three were females and seven were males. When...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says organisations that value and invest in their employees will reap the rewards of a truly engaged workforce. The Minister, who was speaking at the annual Melia Braco Village Staff Awards on February 19 at Melia Braco, Trelawny, said the flipside, however, is that entities that treat their workers as just another commodity will...