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Chairman of the Minimum Wage Advisory Commission, Silvera Castro speaks with Commission member, Bernita Locke and CEO of Manpower and Maintenance Services Limited, Audrey Hinchcliffe after the consultation.

Minimum Wage Commission Wraps Up Consultations

The Minimum Wage Advisory Commission (MWAC) on September 26, concluded its series of island-wide consultations on the national minimum wage, at a two-hour session held at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security in Kingston. The consultation received recommendations and...

President of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Nathan Robb, addresses a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Tank held on September 26 at the agency’s Montego Bay Regional Office, where he provided details about the Chamber’s Expo 2013, which will be held next month.

Montego Bay Chamber President Calls for Businesses to Focus on Growth

Ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Professor Stephen Vasciannie (fourth right) and Director of Strategic Plans and Training of the District of Columbia National Guard, Lt. Colonel Luis Campbell (fourth left), with (from left), Security Attaché at the Embassy of Jamaica, Stacy Ann Green; Major Mark Escherich, National Guard Bi-lateral Affairs Officer to Jamaica; Major Daniel Gilmore, Senior Southcom Desk Officer; First Lt. Tamara Blassingame, State Partnership Programmes Co-ordinator; Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Jamaica, Mrs. Marsha Coore-Lobban; and Captain Russell Brown at the Embassy of Jamaica, after the National Guard contingent held discussions with Ambassador Vasciannie, recently.

Ambassador and National Guard Hold Discussions

State Minister for Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Hon. Julian Robinson (left), Director of the Mona ICT Policy Centre, and Director of CARIMAC, Professor Hopeton Dunn (centre) and attorney-at-law, Georgia Gibson-Henlin converse during a JIS Think Tank at the agency headquarters recently.

Commercial Espionage to be Discussed at Conference

Chairperson of the Access to Information Advisory Stakeholders Committee, Dr. Carolyn Gomes (left), listens attentively to a point from Director of the Access to Information Unit, Damion Cox, at a recent Think Tank at the Jamaica Information Service’s (JIS) head office in Kingston.

Access to Information Act to be Amended

Minister of State in the Ministry of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Ian Hayles (right) and Head of Delegation of the European Union to Jamaica, Ambassador Paola Amadei (left) examine the Rainfall Recorder that has been installed at the Cave Valley Health Centre in Hanover. Others (from second left) are: Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Colin Bullock and Hydrologist, Michael Wilson (second right). Occasion was the commissioning and handing over ceremony for Climate Data Equipment in the Royal Palm Reserve in the Negril area, on September 25.

13 years ago Environment

Equipment Installed in the West to Boost Climate Change Project

An automatic weather station and rainfall gauge has been commissioned into service at the Royal Palm Reserve in Sheffield, Negril and the Cave Valley Health Centre in Hanover, respectively, at a cost of approximately $1 million. They are aimed at assisting Jamaica to adapt to climate change; and to contribute to sustainable development by increasing the resilience of vulnerable areas...

Minister of Youth and Culture, the Hon. Lisa Hanna browses through a book with students from Allman Town Primary. The Child Development Agency held a community forum at the school, under the theme:

13 years ago Culture

Parents Urged to Keep Close Tabs on Children

Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, is urging parents to be vigilant in monitoring their children and know what they are doing on social media. “Know who your child’s friends are. Know what they are doing on Facebook, know what they are doing on BB, know what they are doing on Skype, know what they are doing on...

Director of the Mona ICT Policy Centre, and Director of CARIMAC, Professor Hopeton Dunn, addresses a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Tank held on September 25, at the Jamaica Information Service’s (JIS) Half-Way-Tree Road offices in Kingston. Professor Dunn was speaking about the upcoming two-day National Conference on Cyber Security and Digital Forensics to be held from September 30 to October 1, at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Regional Headquarters at Mona, St. Andrew.

13 years ago JIS Think TankTechnology

Public Invited to Two-Day Cyber Security Conference at Mona

Members of the public are being invited to attend a two-day National Conference on Cyber Security and Digital Forensics, which will be held from September 30 to October 1 at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Regional Headquarters, Mona, St. Andrew. Under the theme: ‘Protecting Identity, Banking and Citizen Information Networks’, the event is being hosted by the Mona...

Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites (right), joins hands with students and teachers of Holmwood Technical High School in Christiana, Manchester, during Thursday’s (Sept. 26) special devotional exercise at the institution, held in the aftermath of Wednesday’s (Sept. 25) tragic road accident in Chudleigh, in the parish, which claimed the lives of four of the school’s students, and injured several others.

13 years ago Education

Education Minister Leads Team to Comfort Grieving Students at Holmwood

Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, led a team of Ministry officials from Kingston to visit bereaved students and staff of the Holmwood Technical High School, in Christiana, Manchester, on Thursday, September 26. Their visit came in the aftermath of Wednesday’s (September 25) fatal traffic accident in Chudleigh, Manchester, which claimed the lives of four of the institution’s students and...

Students and staff of Holmwood Technical High School in Manchester, disembarking one of two buses contracted by the institution’s management to provide transportation services for students.

13 years ago Education

Greater Discipline Needed on the Roads – Rev Thwaites

Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, says that the fatal motor vehicle accident on September 25, which claimed the lives of four students of Holmwood Technical High School, brings into focus, the need for greater discipline on the nation’s roads among persons operating public passenger vehicles, and especially those carrying children. “It’s important that we use this tragedy to see...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, addresses a forum on ‘Sustainable Transport and Road Safety’ on September 26, as part of the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, currently underway in New York.

13 years ago Office of the Prime MinisterPrime Minister

PM Says Measures Will Be Put In Place To Deal With Reckless Driving

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, says the Government is committed to ensuring that all the necessary measures are put in place to address new risks and threats that emerge from reckless driving. Mrs. Simpson Miller, who was addressing a forum on ‘Sustainable Transport and Road Safety’ at the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly in...

13 years ago Labour

JPC to Host Two Day Productivity Conference

The Jamaica Productivity Centre (JPC) will host a two-day conference in observance of Productivity Awareness Week, October 7 to 11. To take place at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston on October 8 and 9, the conference is to provide learning opportunities and valuable information on productivity for employees at all levels, in private and public sector organizations. The opening...