To adapt to the changing economies of the Caribbean region and diversify the subject offering to students, the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has added five new subjects to the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) syllabus. The subjects, Agricultural Science, Entrepreneurship, Performing Arts, Physical Education and Sport, and Tourism, will be available for study beginning in September 2014, with the first...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, has expressed appreciation for the hard work of the hundreds of workers employed in constructing the Linstead to Moneague leg of the North-South Highway, scheduled for opening in early August. Mrs. Simpson Miller, who was on a tour of the project on Tuesday, May 20, said based on what she saw, when...

The National Youth Service (NYS) will be spending $20 million to implement its Entrepreneurship programme. The programme will facilitate the training of over 200 youth who have the desire, the drive and ideas to form sustainable businesses that create jobs. “Included in the training programme will be coaching in business plan development and how to develop and present credible and...

The Ministry of Youth and Culture will commence a review of the licensing regime for privately operated children’s homes and places of safety, during the current fiscal year. Portfolio Minister, Hon. Lisa Hanna, says this exercise aims to ensure that all entities licensed to operate as such, not only have the physical facilities to accommodate children taken in the State’s...

Director of the Island Traffic Authority (ITA), Ludlow Powell is reminding owners and operators of motor vehicles to ensure that their vehicles are of roadworthy standard at all times. In an interview with JIS News, he explained that a vehicle could become unfit at any time based on road conditions and/or weather conditions and that although the fitness period is...

The Ministry of Youth and Culture will, this year, commence phased implementation of a Case Management System (CMS), designed to maintain accurate records of children taken into State custody at places of safety, until their departure from these institutions. The system, which will cost approximately $58 million to implement, is slated for roll out over the next three years, and...

Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, has announced a shift in the timing of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) Festival of the Arts programme in schools. Ms. Hanna said the programme will be shifted from the last term of the school year, April to June, when students should be focusing on exams, to the first term, September...