The Institute of Jamaica (IOJ), located downtown Kingston, has been selected as the 2024 National Labour Day Project. Activities will focus on the building of a ramp and preparations for the installation of an elevator to enhance access to the institute’s cultural and heritage resources. Labour Day will be observed on Thursday, May 23 under the theme: 'Ramp up di...

Special Projects Manager at the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), Montego Bay Regional Office, Sharon Earle (left), gifts grade-four teacher at Glendevon Primary School in St. James, Tessah Whittingham (centre) and Literacy Coordinator, Delfern Lewis, a JIS publication, ‘A Different Hurricane and Other Jamaican Stories’, to aid students in their reading and comprehension skills, on Read Across Jamaica Day, Tuesday, May...

Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for Information, Hon. Robert Morgan, has the attention of grade-four students at the Mocho Primary School in Clarendon as he reads to them during his visit to the institution on Tuesday (May 7) for Read Across Jamaica Day activities.

Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for Information, Hon. Robert Morgan, is calling on Caribbean countries to invest in bolstering government communication and improving access to information. He made the call as he addressed the World Press Freedom Day gala in Georgetown, Guyana, on Friday (May 3). “As a region, we need to strengthen...

Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with Responsibility for Information, Hon. Robert Morgan, says there is need for a Caribbean Community (CARICOM) information ministers forum. He said that the grouping would function in a similar manner as the CARICOM forum of foreign ministers, which meets to discuss regional foreign policy and community governance matters. “[This is]...

Jamaica has moved up eight places in the latest World Press Freedom Index and is now the number-one ranked country in the Caribbean. The country now ranks 24 out of 180 nations in the 2024 release of the World Press Freedom Index, with a score of 77.3. Jamaica was ranked 32 in last year’s index. The latest Index was compiled...

The HEART/NSTA Trust is anticipating more than 200,000 enrolments within the first three years, once its digital technical and vocational education and training (TVET) platform is launched. With a strategic focus on modernising traditional approaches to TVET, the platform will “harness the power of digital technologies to enhance the accessibility, flexibility and overall effectiveness of our TVET offerings,” said the...