Teacher of the year, Jody Brown of Morant Bay Primary School, is to wrap up Child Month activities in the parish with a symposium for at-risk boys on May 31. The event will be held at the Rudolf Elder Park in Morant Bay, under the theme ‘Today's Boys... Tomorrow's Men’. Mr. Brown, who topped a field of other candidates earlier...

Work to establish Internet access in 690 schools via the islandwide broadband network is projected for completion by the end of fiscal year 2023/24. This is according to Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams, who was speaking during Wednesday’s (May 24) opening ceremony for a two-day Technology in Education Conference, hosted by e-Learning Jamaica at The Jamaica Pegasus...

Minister of Justice, Hon. Delroy Chuck, is pushing restorative justice (RJ) as a way of resolving conflicts among students before they descend to fights. The Minister said he has seen videos of students involved in violent conflicts, and their peers seem to be more interested in recording these incidents for social media postings rather than encouraging a peaceful resolution. “It...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness’ decision to decline the salary increase attached to the post under the new public-sector-compensation regime will have implications for past and future holders of the office. Minister without Portfolio with Responsibility for Information, Hon. Robert Morgan, provided an update during Wednesday’s (May 24) post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House. “It’s not the [Most...

The Emergency Powers (Parishes of St. James and Hanover) Regulations, 2023 and the Emergency Powers (Parish of Clarendon) Regulations, 2023 were tabled in the House of Representatives today (May 24). States of Public Emergency are currently in effect in St. James, Hanover, and Clarendon for a period of 14 days. According to a release from the Office of the Prime...

Contributors can now obtain an eligibility letter in real time from the National Housing Trust (NHT), using the organisation’s upgraded online portal. Applicants can also share their eligibility letter digitally, whether with another mortgage institution, a realtor, or others. It outlines the benefits for which an NHT contributor qualifies and provides information such as loan amount, loan tenure and interest...

Homeless people in St Ann will soon have a comfortable place to lay their heads, as a $21-million homeless shelter being constructed in Buckfield, Ocho Rios, is nearing completion. Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, announced the shelter’s construction in May 2021. Mayor of St. Ann’s Bay, Councillor Sydney Stewart, told JIS News that the building,...