The Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) has been significant throughout the past 15 years, playing an integral role in driving the innovation and development of the local tourism sector, and enriching the lives of Jamaican citizens through key community projects. This particularly holds true in the tourism capital of Montego Bay and the wider St. James, where the TEF has been...

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Resident Representative, Dr. Constant Lonkeng Ngouana, is lauding the Government for initiating measures to preserve and bolster the economic gains Jamaica has recorded over the last six years. This, he notes, under the country’s Economic Reform Programme (ERP). These safeguards, which Dr. Lonkeng Ngouana contends are imperative in facilitating Jamaica’s exit from the IMF’s financial support...

The Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre for boys, in Spanish Town, St. Catherine, has received a boost in its quest to provide the wards with modern agricultural training, as part of the rehabilitation process. Under a partnership involving Hi-Pro Farm Supplies, the We Transform Initiative, and students and Faculty from the Humber College, in Canada, the programme was recently expanded...

Director, Child Labour, Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Sasha Deer-Gordon, says the minimum age that a child can be admitted into formal employment is 15 years, if he or she has completed secondary education. In an interview with JIS News, she explains that the line of work must not be hazardous and it must also allow time for leisure,...

The Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) is undertaking development projects at key ports with the aim of facilitating growth within the country’s cruise industry. Works are being done in Montego Bay, St. James; Ocho Rios, St. Ann; and Falmouth, Trelawny. In Montego Bay, the berth space at the port is being upgraded to accommodate larger cruise vessels. “We will be...

Veteran Educator, Linnette Henry, is passionate about guiding troubled young persons, particularly boys, on a path to become useful citizens, and since 2004 she has assisted several of them. Mrs. Henry, who has been teaching at the Christiana High School, in Manchester, for the past 23 years, has become ‘mother’ to scores of young men who, at some point during...

The Grateful Hill Primary and Infant School in St. Catherine is focused not only on creating a positive environment for students to grow academically, but also developing the pupils’ agricultural skills. To this end, the school has established a thriving agricultural project with the support of the Jamaica 4-H Clubs, Rural Agricultural Development Authority, Social Development Commission and Jamaica Broilers....

Breast cancer survivor, Dr. Elorine Turner Pryce has turned her passion for healthy eating into a thriving business. Through her vegan food line, Eden Joy Whole Foods, she is on mission to promote the healing power of food, while earning an income. Dr. Turner Pryce, who was diagnosed with stage two invasive breast cancer five years ago at age 49,...

The continued development of the Caribbean’s number one attraction – Dunn’s River Falls – should enable the resort town of Ocho Rios to benefit more from the cruise and stopover arrival markets. Located in Ocho Rios, St. Ann, Dunn’s River Falls is the most visited attraction in the country, and its nearly one million visitors annually contribute significantly to the...