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Registrar at the Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR), Greig Smith.

Children’s Registry Looks to Adopt Best Practices from Canada

The Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR), is seeking to adopt best practices from Canada in order to improve child care and protection in Jamaica. The objective is to improve the mechanisms for addressing child abuse and children, who go...

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Derrick Kellier (left) addresses the National Council on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (NCTVET) Quality Symposium, held at the Knutsford Court Hotel in Kingston on Thursday, February 27. Seated at the head table are: Executive Director of the HEART Trust/NTA, Dr. Wayne Wesley (left) and Senior Director (Acting) at the NCTVET, Jennifer Walker.

Ministry Creating Linkages with Overseas Labour Markets

Prime Minister the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller (left), comforts Pauline Dennis, mother of athlete, Cavahn McKenzie, whose body arrived from Trinidad and Tobago today, February 27, at the Norman Manley International Airport. Looking on is Minister with responsibility for Sports, Hon. Natalie Neita Headley. The junior athlete, who attended St. Jago High School, died after participating in the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association Cross Country Championships in Tobago last week.

Body of Junior Athlete Cavahn McKenzie Returned Home

Labour and Social Security Minister, Hon. Derrick Kellier (2nd left); Local Government and Community Development Minister, Hon. Noel Arscott (right); Commercial Counsellor, Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Jamaica, Lei Liu (left); and Pan Caribbean Sugar Company Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Huaixiang Wu, observe a state-of-the-art cane harvester in action at Monymusk Sugar Factory, in Lionel Town, Clarendon, during their tour of the facility on February 26. Monymusk is owned and operated by Pan Caribbean.

Labour Minister Welcomes $1.6 Billion Investment in Sugar

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller (left), cuts the ribbon symbolizing the official handing over of upgraded perimeter fencing to residents of the Greenwich Farm community in South West St. Andrew, during a ceremony on February 26. Applauding (from second left, front row) are: Managing Director, Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Scarlette Gillings; and Secretary, Greenwich Farm Development Council, Maxine Simpson. In the back row (from left) are: Managing Director, Musson Jamaica Ltd/ T. Geddes Grant Distributors, Michael Subratie; and Councillor, Greenwich Town division, Karl Blake (partially hidden).

Major Facelift for Greenwich Farm

Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites (right), in discussion with President, University of Technology (UTech), Professor Errol Morrison, at the presentation of a software to assist deaf students learn the English Language, at the Lister Mair Gilby School for the Deaf, Hope Estate, Kingston, on February 26. At left is Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Hon. Phillip Paulwell.

12 years ago Education

UTech Develops Software to Assist Deaf Students

Students at the Lister Mair Gilby School for the Deaf are benefiting from U-TOUCH, software which uses Jamaican sign language to teach English Language to deaf and hard of hearing students. The software was presented to the institution by the University of Technology (UTech), during a ceremony held on the school compound, Hope Estate, Kingston, on February 26. Minister of...

Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites (2nd right), shares a moment with (from left), Carol Dunbar of Holiday Inn SunSpree Resort; Sales Manager, Columbus Communications Jamaica Limited, Ben Buls; and Regional Manager of Wisynco Group Limited, Vivia Newman. Occasion was the media launch of the FLOW Mo’Bay City Run on February 25, at Holiday Inn in Montego Bay.

12 years ago Education

Tertiary Students to Benefit from Mo’Bay 10k Run

Students attending tertiary institutions in western Jamaica, who are facing financial challenges, are to benefit from the first FLOW Mo’Bay 10k City Run. The organisers of the event, scheduled to take place in May, are hoping to raise in excess of $5 million to assist students attending the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the University of Technology (UTech)...

Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Hon. Phillip Paulwell (left), and Senior Energy Specialist, Energy Division Infrastructure and Environment Department, Inter-American Development Bank, Lumas Kendrick, Jr. unveil a energy efficiency poster during the launch of the education component of the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Programme (EECP) on Wednesday, February 26, at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, New Kingston.

12 years ago Technology

Energy Efficiency Programme Brings Big Savings for Public Sector Entities

The Government’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Programme (EECP) is reaping positive results, with a number of entities in which the initiative has been implemented reporting significant reduction in energy costs. Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Hon. Phillip Paulwell, said that at the Civil Aviation Authority, where $654,000 was invested in solar control film application, energy consumption has reduced...

Custos of Kingston, Hon. Steadman Fuller (2nd right), is in discussion with Miss Jamaica Festival Queen 2013, Krystal Tomlinson (2nd left), prior to the media launch of the ‘Million Woman March for Endometriosis’, held recently at the Terra Nova All-Suites hotel in St. Andrew. Looking on (from left) are: wife of the Custos, Sonia Fuller; and local organiser of the March, Shauna Fuller Clarke.

12 years ago Health & Wellness

Jamaicans Urged to Participate in Endometriosis Walk on March 13

Jamaicans are being encouraged to participate in the first ever worldwide staging of the ‘Million Woman March for Endometriosis’ on Thursday, March 13, 2014. This call came from wife of the Governor-General, Her Excellency the Most Hon. Lady Allen, in a speech read by Custos of Kingston, Hon. Steadman Fuller, during the media launch of the event on February 25,...

Executive Director, Jamaica Tertiary Education Commission, Maxine Henry-Wilson addressing a public forum on ‘Financing Tertiary Education’ held on February 25, at the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) auditorium in New Kingston.

12 years ago Education

Jamaicans Urged to Enroll in Accredited Tertiary Institutions

Executive Director, Jamaica Tertiary Education Commission, Maxine Henry-Wilson, is urging Jamaicans to enroll in accredited and reputable institutions when pursuing tertiary studies. “We use the word university very loosely in Jamaica, with (institutions) calling themselves university, and they are not universities. I want you to bear that in mind because when you get a certificate, whether it is a Bachelor,...

Minister of National Security, Hon. Peter Bunting (fourth left), cuts the ribbon to mark the official handing over of the $12 million Meadows of Irwin Police Post to the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), on February 26. Sharing in the moment are (from left): Commissioner of Police, Owen Ellington; Chairman of West Indies Home Contractors (WIHCON), Peter Melhado; Member of Parliament for West Central St. James, Hon. Sharon Ffolkes-Abrahams; and Managing Director, WIHCON, Delroy Alcott.

12 years ago National Security and Peace

New Police Post Opens in Irwin, St. James

A new Police post, built at a cost of $12 million, was opened Wednesday, February 26, in the Meadows of Irwin, St. James. The Meadows of Irwin is a private housing development with approximately 800 housing solutions, being developed by West Indies Home Contractors (WIHCON), in the Irwin area of Montego Bay. A gift to the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF)...

Minister of Youth and Culture, the Hon. Lisa Hanna, addressing the Marketing Seminar organised by final year students at the University of Technology School of Business Administration on February 26.

12 years ago Culture

Youth Minister says Traditional ‘Job for Life’ is Gone

The Minister of Youth and Culture, the Hon. Lisa Hanna, MP has urged young people to embrace innovation and entrepreneurship in a changing world. Addressing the Marketing Seminar organised by final year students at the University of Technology School of Business Administration on Wednesday, February 26, Minister Hanna said that global youth unemployment was “close to crisis peak” and one...