More than 300 officials are expected in the island for the sixth International Monetary Fund (IMF) High Level Caribbean Forum slated for Thursday, November 16 at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. Among these are current and former regional heads of government, finance ministers, central bank governors and private-sector representatives, as well as senior staff of the IMF and...

Hundreds of girls are expected to participate in the second staging of the National Conference on Girls’ Education, scheduled to take place on Wednesday, November 15, at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston. Hosted by the St. Hugh’s High School for Girls, this year’s conference will be held under the theme ‘Seeing Tomorrow: Thriving in a Cyber World’. Chair of...

State Minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green, is inviting submissions for its ‘Charge Up’ grants, aimed at supporting the work of youth-based organisations in the country. The grants are being provided under the Ministry’s ‘Charge Up Project,’ which seeks to revitalise Jamaica’s youth club movement. “We have the ‘Charge Up’ project where we are...

The Lauriston and Thompson Pen (L&T) Community 4-H Club is being lauded as a model for transforming communities, through its training activities and creating opportunities for entrepreneurship. The 20-year-old entity, which is the Jamaica 4-H Clubs’ largest and most active community group, staged its 10th Annual Stew Festival on Saturday (Nov. 4), its grandest event yet. The street-side festival, which...

Come January 2018, the Eltham High School is expected to open its new classroom block, which is currently under construction at a cost of $75 million. Interim Principal of the Spanish Town-based school, Ricardo Bennett, said the expansion project will provide much-needed classroom space to better serve the approximately 1,800 students enrolled. “It gives the students more space. It gives...

The Jamaica 4-H Clubs has embarked on a three-year entrepreneurship training programme as part of a move to reposition the organisation as an entity geared at empowering youth for meaningful employment. Under the programme, young persons who successfully complete the training are assisted with capital inputs to start their own businesses. Speaking with JIS News at the 10th annual Lauriston...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the Government is committed to not only ban corporal punishment in schools, but generally in the society, so that it is no longer an option. “I wish to declare that I am totally against corporal punishment. I believe that the time has come for the Parliament to have a debate on this...