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Executive Director of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), Delroy Gordon, gives details of a Farmers’ Market scheduled to take place at the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre on Saturday, August 1. He was speaking at a JIS ‘Think Tank’ on July 24.

Jamaicans Urged to Share Quality Time on Family Day

Jamaicans are being encouraged to come together and share quality time as a family on Sunday, August 2. The day is being designated as Family Day by the Ministry of Youth and Culture as part of activities to celebrate Jamaica’s...

New Buses acquired by the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) in May 2015 that will be used in Kingston City Tour Service to be launched by the JUTC on August 1.

JUTC To Launch Kingston City Tour Tomorrow

Minister of State in the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Colin Fagan (right), addressing members of the Westmoreland office of the Social Development Commission (SDC), during a 'fact-finding' visit to the parish on July 29. At left is Parish Manager, Ron Daley.

SDC To Be Strengthened

Private Sector Organization of Jamaica (PSOJ) President, William Mahfood.

Public and Private Leaders List Major Achievements Since Independence

Traffic Plan for Emancipation and Independence Celebrations

Montego Bay Boys and Girls Club’s Director of Programmes, David Earl (4th left), is presented with five saxophones by President of the Rotary Club of Montego Bay East, Marcus McKenzie (right). Also present are (from left): Board Chairman and Music Director, Carl Matthews; Director, Lisa Crichton Watt; Band Director, Patrick Clarke; Band Assistant, Desmond McKnight and members of the band.

11 years ago Culture

New Sound For Youth Marching Band In Montego Bay

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....

Minister of Agriculture, Labour and Social Security, Hon. Derrick Kellier (3rd left), plants a tree at the St. Andrew parish office of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), to mark the Authority’s 25th anniversary, recently. Others (from left) are: President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Senator Norman Grant; Chief Technical Officer in the Ministry of Agriculture, Dermon Spence; Chairman of RADA, Richard Harrison, and Land Husbandry Officer with RADA, Robert Tulloch.

11 years ago Agriculture

RADA Assisting Farmers to Deal With Climate Change

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...

Chief Education Officer in the Ministry of Education, Dr. Grace McLean (right) is in discussion with Dean of Psychology at the International University of the Caribbean, Dr. Margaret Barnett, and Motivational Speaker, Alvin Day, ahead of the fourth public lecture of the Institute for Educational Administration and Leadership-Jamaica, held at the International University of the Caribbean on Old Hope Road, St Andrew on July 28.

11 years ago Education

$150 Million Invested in TVET Education

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...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Hon. Julian Robinson (centre), speaks with Yanique Watt (left) about her coding design, during a tour of the McGregor Gardens Community Access Point in Kingston on July 29, where girls are being engaged in a coding summer camp. Looking on is camp participant Ashley Wilson.

11 years ago Technology

Girls Learning To Code

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...

Health Minister, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson (left), hands over a drum cover developed by the Ministry to Local Government and Community Development Minister, Hon. Noel Arscott. The drum covers were introduced to local government officials during a meeting on Tuesday (July 28) at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston. In background is Chief Medical Officer in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Marion Bullock DuCasse.

11 years ago Health & Wellness

Health Ministry Partners With Local Government to Distribute Drum Covers

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,...

State Minister for Transport, Works and Housing, Hon. Richard Azan (centre), is provided with details about mangrove research and development at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Marine Laboratory and Biodiversity Centre at Port Royal, by Outreach Officer, Chauntelle Green (2nd left), during a tour of the facility on July 28. The UWI has partnered with the National Works Agency (NWA) to undertake a mangrove re-planting project along the Palisadoes Road shoreline, in Kingston. Also listening (from left) are: NWA Major Projects Director, O’Reilly Henry; NWA Chief Executive Officer, E.G. Hunter; and Director, Mona Geo-Informatics Institute (MGI), University of the West Indies (UWI), Dr. Parris Lyew-Ayee.

11 years ago Works / Construction

NWA Partners with UWI to Replant Mangroves along Palisadoes Road

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....

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller addresses the United Nations Security Council and the UN Headquarters in New York on Thursday, July 30. In the background at left is Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. AJ Nicholson QC, while at right is Jamaica

11 years ago Office of the Prime MinisterPrime Minister

PM Simpson Miller Calls for Greater International Support to Fight Crime in Jamaica and the Caribbean

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller says Jamaica and other Caribbean countries need greater international support to fight global organised criminals and reduce crime, particularly gun-related murders. Speaking at the powerful United Nations Security Council in New York today (Thursday, July 30) Prime Minister Simpson Miller said small countries like Jamaica require comprehensive debt relief and tangible development financing to...