The leadership of New Day Primary and Junior High School, in Kingston, says intervention strategies to improve literacy and numeracy at the institution are bearing fruit, and expresses confidence that the Education Ministry’s literacy target will be met. The national target for literacy is 100 per cent and 85 per cent for numeracy at the primary level by 2015. “We...

Director of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Western Hemisphere Department, Aleandro Werner, has declared the high level forum a success in facilitating frank discussion on economic challenges in the region and ways to improve growth, employment and social development goals. The event, held in collaboration with the Government of Jamaica under the theme: ‘Unlocking Economic Growth,’ involved representatives of the...

Ancylin Morgan always wanted to be a nurse. As a child, she recalls admiring the crisp white uniform of a midwife in the Westmoreland community in which she grew up, and knew then and there, that nursing was what she wanted to do. “I always wanted to be a nurse even as a child. An old midwife in my area...

Jamaicans are being assured that their rights and welfare will be safeguarded while travelling or living overseas, by virtue of Jamaica’s extensive network of foreign embassies, high commissions and permanent missions in countries with which the Government has established diplomatic relations. Director of Diaspora Consular Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Lloyd Wilks, says there are...

Acting Public Defender, Matondo Mukulu, is hailing the tremendous response of young Jamaicans to the Office of the Public Defender’s inaugural Nationwide Essay Competition. The initiative, launched in July and concluded with the award ceremony on October 23, was aimed at increasing young people’s awareness of their fundamental rights as well as the newly passed Disabilities Act. It had two...

Distribution of devices under the Government’s ‘Tablets in Schools’ pilot programme continued on October 24, with 613 students of the Sir Clifford Campbell Primary School in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland receiving tablet computers. The programme is being implemented by E-Learning Jamaica, an agency of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining. Implementation Officer with E-Learning Jamaica, Catherina Patterson, told JIS News...

Professor of Economics and International Business at New York University (NYU) in the Unites States, Nouriel Roubini, says the Caribbean’s best prospect for sustained macro-economic growth lies in deepening levels of financial sector congruity and trade integration. “There are plenty of challenges in this part of the world and a lot needs to be done. A lot of the work...