Staff and students of the Lucea Primary School, in Hanover, have much to celebrate as the continued intervention of the school’s Enrichment Programme has become a cornerstone to improving the literacy level at the institution. The enrichment programme began as an islandwide initiative of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information with key partners, such as the Digicel Foundation. The...

The Acts of Grace Foundation, which was founded in 2015 by Clinical Psychologist, Amanda Fraser, is quietly tending to the needs of several disadvantaged persons across the island, while empowering vulnerable children. Established by the Manchester native, along with a handful of persons, the Foundation assists persons who are beset by psychological and financial challenges, and is also now functioning...

The Bengal Pump Station, located in the farming community of Braco, North Trelawny, is the first of the National Irrigation Commission Limited (NIC) pump stations to be retrofitted with a large-scale solar photovoltaic system. The retrofitted pump station, which was commissioned into service at a ceremony at the facility, on January 23, is a part of the NIC’s Renewable Energy...

Christel House Jamaica aims to assist young students in St. Catherine to become well-deserving members of society, though a school being constructed in Twickenham Park. The local charity organisation, an arm of Christel House International, is to provide tuition-free quality education and ancillary services to students, aged three to 19, living in St. Catherine. The school, which is now under...

Port State Control will have an important role to play in ensuring compliance by ships to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) regulations for the 2020 Global Sulphur Limit, which came into effect on January 1. Under the new regulations, the IMO has set a limit of 0.5 per cent for sulphur in fuel used on board ships, down from 3.5...

The Child Resiliency Programme of the Violence Prevention Alliance is the beneficiary of funds raised at this year’s National Leadership Prayer Breakfast (NLPB) held on January 16 at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. In addition, the Victoria Mutual (VM) Foundation, sponsors of the NLPB, will be partnering with the organisation for an initiative that will be implemented on...

A smattering of mutters were heard in the Mayor’s Chambers at the St. James Municipal Corporation building in Montego Bay, as a diminutive 11-year-old boy approached the podium to give his speech during the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development’s Youth Forum held recently. The 2019/2020 Junior Mayor of Portmore, Malique Robinson-Porter, showed no sign of nervousness. There were...

The National Council on Reparations (NCR) will be spearheading a number of activities this year to raise public awareness of the historical and current justification for reparation. Supported by the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Council has a mandate to organise events and to conduct research and publish the findings in accessible forms that will educate the...

Enterprising developer, Denise Pitter, has fulfilled her mission of spearheading the construction of affordable apartments for persons seeking homes in the Corporate Area. She was able to achieve this with the assistance of the Jamaica Mortgage Bank (JMB), an agency of the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, which provided a loan of approximately $61.12 million to build the...