This year, for the second time, Africa Day will be celebrated in Jamaica on May 25. Schools are expected to plan activities with a focus on Jamaica’s African culture, under the theme ‘Celebrating Africa: Sankofa, Return to the Root’. Senior Education Officer in the Core Curriculum Unit of the Ministry of Education and Youth and Chair of the Africa Day...

Seventeen-year-old Khimali Johnson was surprised but elated when his name was announced as the winner of the beekeeping competition at the 2023 Jamaica 4-H Clubs’ National Achievement Exposition held recently at the Denbigh Showground in Clarendon. He tells JIS News that during the judging “there were confident participants and it kind of lowered my confidence,” but he kept his composure....

Career development officer at the Human Employment and Resource Training Trust/National Training Agency (HEART NSTA/Trust), Dr. Howard Harvey, says the agency is playing a key role in improving the life chances of young people. “As a practitioner in the HEART/NSTA Trust for over 27 years, I have seen literal change, transformation in young people. Where I am at the LEAP...

Students of Bob Marley Primary and Junior High School in St. Ann will, on Saturday, May 27, be in the spotlight of a major charity event being headlined by American superstar crooner and songwriter Michael Bolton. The event, dubbed ‘An Evening with Michael Bolton: For the Children Charity Concert’, to be held at the Couples San Souci Resort in St....

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) says there has been a general reduction in inflation – that is, the rate of price increases – between April 2022, when headline or year-over-year inflation peaked at 11.8 per cent, and March this year when the out-turn fell to 6.2 per cent. The term ‘inflation’ is sometimes loosely used to refer to any increase...

It was not long ago that seven-year-old Devoni Grant was the proud owner of eight goats and a promising livestock enterprise, which he operated alongside his father, Devon Grant, in Sandy Bay, Clarendon, where they reside. So attached was the youngster to his goats that he gave each of them a name, including his favourite, a nanny who m he...

The Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) has rolled out its contactless clearance process option for non-commercial cargo, following a pilot undertaken from October 2022 to January 2023. As a result of the pilot’s effectiveness and success, the JCA, in collaboration with its partners, port operators and freight forwarders, forged ahead with the initiative’s implementation. Project Manager, Kingsley Henry, explains that contactless...

Ten years ago, when high school teacher, Bridget Thompson-Dunkley, was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), she thought her dream of having children had been shattered.  However, after undergoing in vitro fertilisation (IVF), she is now the doting mother of six-year-old triplets, two girls and a boy  PCOS is a hormonal complication which affects the female reproductive system and fertility.  ...

Member of Jamaica’s Bobsled Team and former ward of the State, 21-year-old Anthony Ellis, is determined to rise above his childhood hardships and excel in the sport to support his father and make his country proud. “I want to develop myself to get a better understanding of how to help bring Jamaica to probably a First-World country and to develop...