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After serving in that position for just over two years, Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) Dr. Gladstone Hutchinson, is set to demit office in early 2013. Dr. Hutchinson, who was appointed to the position in July 2010, succeeded Dr. Wesley Hughes, who is the current Financial Secretary in the Ministry of Finance and Planning. The outgoing...

An exposition and a concert are being held at Emancipation Park, today (November 20) as part of activities to mark Civil Service Week 2012. This follows Monday's official launch of the week at the Office of the Prime Minister, at which the civil servant of the year was announced. Senior Public Health Nurse, Beverly Davis Samuels is this year’s winner....

Senior Public Health Nurse, Beverly Davis Samuels, says she is humbled and honoured to have been chosen as the Civil Servant of the Year. Mrs. Davis Samuels was announced as the winner of the award from a group of seven nominees, during the official launch of Civil Service Week 2012, at the Office of the Prime Minister, on November 19....

Improving employment opportunities by forging links with national agencies for further training and job enhancement, is the aim of the Abilities Foundation, as they continue to reach out to persons with disabilities. Administered by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS) since 1992, the Foundation currently caters for 66 students, ranging from 17 to 65 years, with challenges, such...

The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) will demonstrate joined-up government in action at the Civil Service Expo on Tuesday at Emancipation Park.  The Expo is under the theme:  Civil servants in action: celebrating Jamaica. The Jamaica Archives and Records Department (JARD); the Bureau of Women’s Affairs (BWA), the Jamaica Anti Doping Commission (JADCo) and the National Identification Systems project (NIDS) -...

One of the champions for the restoration of the Ward Theatre, the late chairperson of the Ward Theatre Foundation, Ruby Martin, was remembered at a benefit concert held on November 18 at the Institute of Jamaica Lecture Hall, on East Street, downtown Kingston. The concert, organised by the Foundation and titled, ‘Remembering Ruby Martin’, was staged on the date that...

The annual Remembrance Day services will be held at the National Heroes Park, and also in all parish capitals on Sunday, November 11. At eleven a.m., there will be a period of silence for two minutes to the memory of servicemen and servicewomen who died while on the battlefield. The public is being urged to show their support for Jamaica’s...

Prime Minister The Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller has extended congratulations to President Barack Obama of the United States of America (USA), on his victory in the US Presidential Election and his appointment to a second term in the White House. Like Us on Facebook for More News and Information In a congratulatory message Prime Minister Simpson Miller said President...

Director General, Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management, Ronald Jackson, has informed that some 52 persons are still being housed in five shelters across the island. “Those individuals are persons who have lost their homes. There are others (who have lost their homes) but they have sought to move in with other family members in the interim,” he said....

Minister with responsibility for Information, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer, is appealing to Jamaicans still without electricity, to continue to exercise patience. She said the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) has been working hard to restore service following the passage of Hurricane Sandy last week. “I think as a country, we really can’t complain about the level of work the JPS...

Government Senator, Lambert Brown, is urging the administration to review, as a matter of urgency, the practice of employing workers under the guise of “independent contractors or contract workers,” with a view to ensuring that the employees are not deprived of their rights. Opening the debate on a Motion in the Senate on the Employment Termination and Redundancy Act, on...

  The talented 10-year-old Kathryn Gooden, a grade six student of the St. Hugh’s Preparatory School, who copped the top prize in the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) inaugural Heritage Essay Competition, is still beaming from her success. Kathryn says  she is happy that she entered and she wants to encourage other children to participate in the competition.                                                       “I would...