TRAFFIC PLAN Independence/Festival Celebrations- 2015 In order to facilitate the smooth staging of these events the following Traffic Management will be put in place. All activities at the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre from August 1-6, the management of the traffic will be the same. This year will see a market place established for market vendors on the grounds of the...

The Montego Bay Boys and Girls Club Marching Band, the oldest of its kind in the English-speaking Caribbean, plans to show off its new sound over the Emancipation and Independence celebrations, with its significantly boosted woodwind section. The band, which is celebrating its seventy-third anniversary, was  recently presented with five new saxophones by the Rotary Club of Montego Bay East....

The Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), is using its 25th anniversary celebrations across the island to equip farmers with skills to deal with  climate change, and will showcase this thrust at the 2015 Denbigh Agricultural Show, in May Pen, Clarendon. According to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of RADA, Lenworth Fulton, farmers and other interested patrons attending the three-day event, commencing...

Since last year, the Government invested more than $150 million in outfitting school laboratories and workshops, and upgrading of teachers in the areas of technical, vocational education and training (TVET). This is keeping with the emphasis on equipping students with the requisite training and skills demanded by the global labour market. “The Government of Jamaica sees TVET as an important...

Come tomorrow (July 31), some 37 girls from communities in the Corporate Area, will complete two weeks of fun but intensive training in coding. The girls, who are under the age of 18, are participating in coding summer camps at centres on Deanery Road and McGregor Gardens in Kingston. The staging of the two-week camps is in keeping with efforts...

The Ministry of Health is partnering with the Local Government and Community Development Ministry to reproduce and distribute the special drum covers that have been developed to guard against the breeding of the Aedes aegypti mosquito. The covers are for use on 45–55 gallon drums, which the Health Ministry has found, are the main breeding habitat for the Aedes aegypti,...

The National Works Agency (NWA) has partnered with the University of the West Indies (UWI) to undertake a mangrove replanting project along the Palisadoes Road shoreline, in Kingston, at a cost of over $8 million. This five-year engagement entails the planting of approximately 6,000 mangrove saplings within a 3,000 square metre area, on the Kingston Harbour side of the roadway....