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Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, addressing the 49th Annual Conference of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), held on August 21, at the Jamaica Grande Resort in Ocho Rios, St. Ann. Seated (from left) are: Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Elaine Foster-Allen (centre), and Chief Education Officer, Grace Mclean (right).
Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, addressing the 49th Annual Conference of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), held on August 21, at the Jamaica Grande Resort in Ocho Rios, St. Ann. Seated (from left) are: Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Elaine Foster-Allen (centre), and Chief Education Officer, Grace Mclean (right).

Tuition Money Owed to Teachers Will Be Paid Beginning October

Minister of Education, Hon. Rev.  Ronald Thwaites, says money owed to teachers under the tuition reimbursement scheme will be paid in tranches starting in October. “The sum of $322 million owed to teachers as reimbursement for tuition expenses, while an...
Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. the Hon. Peter Phillips (2nd left), shares a light conversation with (from left): Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) Governor, Brian Wynter; International Monetary Fund (IMF) Mission Team Chief to Jamaica, Jan Kees Martijn; and IMF Resident Representative in Jamaica, Dr. Bert van Selm, during Thursday’s (August 22) media briefing, jointly hosted by the Finance Ministry and the Mission, in Kingston. Details of the country’s just concluded first quarter performance review, under the four-year IMF Extended Fund Facility (EFF), were outlined.
Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. the Hon. Peter Phillips (2nd left), shares a light conversation with (from left): Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) Governor, Brian Wynter; International Monetary Fund (IMF) Mission Team Chief to Jamaica, Jan Kees Martijn; and IMF Resident Representative in Jamaica, Dr. Bert van Selm, during Thursday’s (August 22) media briefing, jointly hosted by the Finance Ministry and the Mission, in Kingston. Details of the country’s just concluded first quarter performance review, under the four-year IMF Extended Fund Facility (EFF), were outlined.

IMF Mission Team Satisfied with Implementation of Economic Programme
Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Thwaites (left) speaks with Opposition Spokesperson on Education, Marissa Dalrymple Philibert (right), while looking on (from 2nd right) are three students from the constituency of South St. Andrew who were awarded the Detective Inspector Delvin ‘Sarge’ Grant Memorial scholarship valued at $250,000 each: Felicia West, Nandi Richards, and Shamar Stewart. The awards function was held at the Knutsford Court Hotel on August 21.
Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Thwaites (left) speaks with Opposition Spokesperson on Education, Marissa Dalrymple Philibert (right), while looking on (from 2nd right) are three students from the constituency of South St. Andrew who were awarded the Detective Inspector Delvin ‘Sarge’ Grant Memorial scholarship valued at $250,000 each: Felicia West, Nandi Richards, and Shamar Stewart. The awards function was held at the Knutsford Court Hotel on August 21.

South St. Andrew Students Receive Scholarships
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller (fourth left), at a meeting with President of the People’s Republic of China, His Excellency Xi Jinping (fourth right), in Beijing August 22. The Prime Minister is on a five-day official visit to China. To the Prime Minister’s right are: Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. A. J. Nicholson; Ambassador to China, Mr. Ralph Thomas and Dr. Carlton Davis, Special Adviser to the Prime Minister.
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller (fourth left), at a meeting with President of the People’s Republic of China, His Excellency Xi Jinping (fourth right), in Beijing August 22. The Prime Minister is on a five-day official visit to China. To the Prime Minister’s right are: Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. A. J. Nicholson; Ambassador to China, Mr. Ralph Thomas and Dr. Carlton Davis, Special Adviser to the Prime Minister.

China to Help Construct Two New Infant Schools
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller (second left), in discussion with Chairman of the National People’s Congress (NPC), Zhang Deijang, during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on August 22. The Prime Minister re-affirmed Jamaica’s commitment to bilateral relations with China. The Prime Minister is on a five-day official visit to China. At left is Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. A. J. Nicholson.
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller (second left), in discussion with Chairman of the National People’s Congress (NPC), Zhang Deijang, during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on August 22. The Prime Minister re-affirmed Jamaica’s commitment to bilateral relations with China. The Prime Minister is on a five-day official visit to China. At left is Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. A. J. Nicholson.

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Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) Governor, Brian Wynter (standing), converses with Deputy Governors, Gayon Hosin (left), and John Robinson, following the BoJ’s quarterly media briefing at the institution’s downtown Kingston offices on August 21.
Finance & Public Service

BOJ says Jamaica has Met Monetary Targets Under IMF

Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) Governor, Brian Wynter, is reporting that Jamaica has “comfortably met” the stipulated monetary targets under the International Monetary Fund (IMF) US$932.3 million four-year Extended Fund Facility (EFF), for the April to June quarter. This is  in relation to the Net International Reserves (NIR), as well as fiscal and debt targets and structural benchmarks which were also...
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Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) Governor, Brian Wynter (right), emphasizes a point while speaking at the BoJ’s quarterly media briefing at the institution’s downtown Kingston offices on August 21. Listening keenly is Deputy Governor, John Robinson.
Finance & Public Service

Government Confident of Passing IMF Test

The Government is moving ahead with implementing reform measures, even as it remains confident that Jamaica will pass its first quarterly performance review, which is currently being conducted by an International Monetary Fund (IMF) Mission Team. “Overall, we have to change the economic fundamentals, investment environment, inefficiencies of the public sector and to create a new economic order within Jamaica,”...
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Managing Director, Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), Colin Campbell shows off a smart card during a Jamaica Information Service
JIS Think TankTransport

JUTC to Introduce Robust Electronic Fare System

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) will shortly introduce a robust electronic fare collection system as part of efforts to stop revenue leakage. Speaking at a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) ‘Think Tank’ at the agency’s headquarters in Kingston on August 21, Managing Director, Colin Campbell said that the revenues of the company are being diminished by leakages particularly where adults...
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Deputy Managing Director for Operations at the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), Kirk Finnikin (left) addresses a Jamaica Information Service (JIS)
Transport

JUTC’s ‘Park and Ride’ Service for Portmore Next Month

Residents of Portmore, St. Catherine, are to realise savings in transportation costs with the introduction of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company’s (JUTC) ‘park and ride' service starting in September. This was disclosed by JUTC's Deputy Managing Director for Operations, Kirk Finnikin, during a ‘Think Tank’ session at the Jamaica Information Service' (JIS) headquarters in Kingston on Wednesday, August 21. “What...
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Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. A.J. Nicholson (seated), signing agreements with the Government of China at the Great Hall of the People in the Chinese capital, Beijing, on August 21, while in the (background), Prime Minister the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller converses with Premier of the People’s Republic of China, His Excellency Li Keqiang. Assisting the Minister is Acting Director of the Bilateral Relations Department in the Ministry, Deon Williams and at left (partly hidden) is Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill.
Office of the Prime MinisterOfficial Visits

Jamaica and China Sign Four Agreements

The Jamaican Government, August 21, signed four agreements with the People’s Republic of China worth millions of dollars, as Prime Minster, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller continues her official trip to that country. Chief among them is an agreement with the China Exim Bank for a preferential loan for the Major Infrastructure Development Project (MIDP). The others are Letters...
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Water, Land, Environment, and Climate Change Minister, Hon. Robert Pickersgill (left), is engaged in conversation by Minister without Portfolio, Ministry of Finance and Planning, Hon. Horace Dalley (right), during Friday’s (August 16) groundbreaking ceremony for phase one of the $200 million Mason River water supply upgrading project in Clarendon. Minister Dalley is Member of Parliament for North Clarendon, where the project and beneficiaries are located. In the background is National Water Commission (NWC) Chairman, Dr. Leary Myers.
Environment

K-Factor Unit of NWC to Spend $4 Billion on Water Projects

The National Water Commission’s (NWC) K-Factor Unit is slated to spend just over $4 billion out of a $10 billion capital expenditure budget, on water projects islandwide, during the current fiscal year. The scheduled expenditure forms part of some $28.7 billion worth of projects which Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change Minister, Hon. Robert Pickersgill, says the Office of Utilities...
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Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites (second left), observes as Senior Accounting Manager, Productive Business Solutions (PBS) Jamaica, Gregory Douet (right), demonstrates how to use the Xerox ColorQube 9303 photocopy machine, during a handing-over ceremony at the Ministry’s Heroes Circle offices in Kingston on Tuesday (August 20). Looking on (from left) are: Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Elaine Foster Allen; Managing Director, PBS, Melanie Subratie; and Operations Manager, PBS, Paul Reid.
Education

Education Ministry Gets 40 Photocopy Machines from PBS Jamaica

The Productive Business Solutions (PBS) Jamaica has donated 40 Xerox ColorQube 9303 photocopy machines, valued at $15 million, to the Ministry of Education for distribution to some 40 primary and all-age schools across the island. Speaking at the  handing-over ceremony at the Ministry’s Heroes Circle Offices in Kingston on August 20, Portfolio Minister,  Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, expressed gratitude for...
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