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During the 2007/08 financial year, the Scientific Research Council (SRC) increased client productivity and product quality through the continued training of persons as well as local and regional micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), in various aspects of food technology and safety, wastewater management and biotechnology. As set out in a Ministry Paper that was tabled in the House of...

During the fiscal period 2007/08, the Scientific Research Council (SRC) continued the implementation of projects under co-operation agreements and Memoranda of Understanding with various institutions. These include the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), University of the West Indies (UWI), University of Technology (UTech), and the Coconut Industry Board. According to a Ministry Paper that was tabled in the House of...

Ground was broken on May 23 for construction of the Anna Miller Basic School in Knockpactrick, Manchester. The school will be built at a cost of $6 million, with the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI) contributing $4 million, while the rest is coming from the Central Manchester Constituency Development Fund. Principal of the school, Hildred Lewis told JIS News that getting...

Human resource management and its effectiveness in local governance, is being given needed attention and focus during the five-day Regional Local Government Consultation and Conference (RLGCC) now underway at the Rose Hall Resort and Country Club in Montego Bay. The conference, which got underway on May 26, includes training sessions and discussions on a range of related topics and issues...

The Expanding Educational Horizons project (EEH) in the Ministry of Education is undertaking a sensitization programme for principals, teachers and parents, which is geared at identifying and examining gender biases within the primary school classroom setting. Speaking at a recent JIS Think Tank, Project Director for the EEH project, Dr. Jean Beaumont, explained that the programme looks at teaching strategies,...

Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett has emphasised that it is important for members of the Diaspora to work together for the success of not only the tourist industry, but also of the country. Declaring open the Friends of Trelawny Association (FOTA) Business Expo on May 24, at the JFK Holiday Inn Grand Ballroom in Queens, New York, Mr. Bartlett said: "As...

The parish of Trelawny is set to benefit from a myriad of upscale tourism projects over the next 10 years valued at a cost of more than US$16 billion. According to Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, these projects are expected to generate annual earnings of US$20 billion and will create 30,000 new jobs. Delivering the keynote address at the Friends of...

The Expanding Educational Horizons (EEH) project in the Ministry of Education has been reaping rewards through the use of technological tools to improve literacy and numeracy in low performing schools island-wide. Since the inception of the programme in 2005, 17 schools have graduated with between 60 and 90 per cent improvement in literacy and numeracy skills. Come June 5, another...

The Education sector is benefiting from the continued expansion of the Primary Education Support Project (PSEP), with the training of 12,000 teachers in all schools and all grades (Grade 1-6) islandwide, to use the revised primary curriculum (RPC). According to a Ministry Paper that was tabled in the House of Representatives last week, by Minister of Education, Andrew Holness, the...

During the 2007/08 financial year, the Scientific Research Council (SRC) initiated the implementation of a project, which focused on the development of neutraceutical supplements from two selected Jamaican plants to address hypertension and diabetes. As contained in a Ministry Paper tabled in the House of Representatives recently by Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Karl Samuda, the project, funded in...

Opposition Spokesperson on Education, Maxine Henry Wilson, has urged the Education Ministry to look at the problem of anti-school sub-culture among students, where underachievers are seen as heroes. "There is existing in schools, what you can call a deeply anti-school sub-culture, where the bad boy or the girl who do not perform are lionized and treated as heroes.it's a societal...

Member of Parliament (MP) for South West St. Ann, Ernest Smith, has commended the Government for the establishment of the Constituency Development Fund, which he said, has greatly enhanced the ability of MPs to take care of their constituencies. "Every Member of Parliament must give thanks to the government for the Constituency Development Fund, because it makes all the difference...