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Executive Director of the Council of Community Colleges of Jamaica (CCCJ), Dr. Donna Powell Wilson, addressing a recent JIS ‘Think Tank’.

CCCJ Hosts Annual Conference June 7-9

The Council of Community Colleges of Jamaica (CCCJ) will host its annual conference from June 7-9 under the theme ‘CCCJ@15:Transforming Lives: Embracing Student-Centredness’. The conference, which forms part of the Council’s 15th anniversary celebrations, will be held at Hyatt Ziva...

Staff members of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade paint playground equipment at the Mission House Methodist Basic School in Gordon Town, East Rural St. Andrew, on Labour Day, May 23.

Basic School Receives Help from Foreign Affairs Ministry

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, holds a copy of a book highlighting the Ministry’s performance for the 2016/17 fiscal year, during her contribution to the 2017/18 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (May 30). At left is Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett.

Legislation Committee of Cabinet to Receive Sexual Harassment Bill

Managing Director, Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ), Milverton Reynolds (right), is in discussion with Manager, Market Development, Agro Processing and Services, Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), Marlene Porter (left), and Senior Director and Head of Technical Assistance Services, Jamaica Productivity Centre, Tamar Nelson. Occasion was the launch of JAMPRO’s Caribbean Market Mission at the agency’s offices in New Kingston on Monday (May 29). Under the mission, 18 Jamaican companies will benefit from the promotion of their products in three Caribbean countries over a two-week period.

18 Companies to Promote Products Under JAMPRO’s Caribbean Market Mission

Executive Director of the Jamaica Intensive Reading Clinic (JIRC), Santana Morris.

JIRC Urges Companies to Donate Books

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange. (JIS File Photo).

9 years ago Culture

Gov’t Strengthening Protection of Port Royal

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, says the Government will be strengthening the protection of Port Royal, through regular monitoring, research and documentation. She said the intention is to develop the underwater city for tourism purposes. “It is one thing to develop and another thing to ensure that it is protected, and that is our first...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, ON, PC, MP

9 years ago Office of the Prime Minister

Government Values Partnership with Food for the Poor – MHPM Holness

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has strongly stated the Government’s commitment to its partnership with the international charity organisation Food For The Poor (FFP). FFP is a non-profit organisation aimed at providing programmes, including housing to help the poor. “Government values the partnership with Food For the Poor. This partnership has my full support as it affords needy Jamaicans a home...

Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) Managing Director, Omar Sweeney (centre) and Registrar General’s Department (RGD) Chief Executive Officer, Deidre English Gosse (2nd right), shake hands after signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to undertake the processing of birth certificates for 4,200 beneficiaries from 18 Integrated Community Development Project (ICDP) communities. This will enable the residents to access basic social services. Others (from left) are Technical ICDP Team Leader, World Bank, Emanuela Monterio; and JSIF executives – General Manager, Technical Services-Project Management, Loy Malcolm; and Development Manager, Mona Sue-Ho.

9 years ago Office of the Prime MinisterVision 2030Youth

JSIF to Implement Projects to Benefit Thousands of Youth

More than 10,000 youth, deemed ‘at-risk’, are to benefit from jobs and other income-generating activities to be created from projects that the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) will be implementing during the 2017/18 fiscal year. The JSIF, an agency in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), is investing $2 billion in activities that will support the Government’s undertaking to...

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange (left), in conversation with (from second left): Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz; Cuba

9 years ago Economic Growth & Infrastructure Development

Protection for Wetlands

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz, says that over the next three to five years, the Government will be implementing several strategies towards the protection of the country’s wetlands. Among the strategies, he said, is the implementation of a National Strategy for Biodiversity Conservation, supported by a national programme to enhance...

Dr. the Hon. David Boxer, O.J., with a group of students of the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts.

9 years ago Culture

National Gallery of Jamaica’s Tribute to David Boxer

The National Gallery of Jamaica has received the sad news of the passing of Dr the Hon. David Boxer, O.J., one of the Caribbean region’s most eminent and influential art scholars, artists and art collectors. Dr Boxer served the National Gallery for some thirty-seven years, first as Director/Curator and from 1991 to 2013 as Chief Curator. David Wayne Boxer was...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett. (File)

9 years ago Tourism

Region Earns US$27 Billion from Tourism

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says tourism remains the most vital source of earnings and economic activity for the majority of Caribbean islands, with region-wide revenues estimated at more than US$27 billion. “Tourism is the single largest generator of foreign exchange in 16 of the 28 countries in the Caribbean, with the sector receiving the most by way of...

Acting Executive Director of the Jamaica National Heritage Trust, Dorrick Gray, speaking at a Jamaica Information Service ‘Think Tank’ on May 24.

9 years ago Culture

Earthquake Victims to be Remembered June 7

Victims of the 1692 earthquake in Port Royal will be remembered at the annual Earthquake Awareness Day on Wednesday, June 7, 2017. This year marks the 325th anniversary of the earthquake that destroyed Port Royal when a large portion of the town sank into the sea and about 2,000 people died as a result of the tremor. Scheduled to begin...