“Proud to be recognised at a young age” is the collective sentiment expressed by the 2022 Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Heritage Competition winners. The youngsters were awarded for their outstanding submissions in the essay, poster, graphics and photo categories, emerging victorious in the field of candidates from schools islandwide. Their entries depicted Jamaica’s greatest accomplishments over the past 60 years...

The National Water Commission (NWC) is recording positive outcomes under the NWC/Miya Non-Revenue Water (NRW) Reduction Co-Management Programme. The engagement aims to strengthen service delivery to NWC customers within the project areas and bolster the national utility company’s operational efficiency. The venture also targets water distribution improvement at acceptable pressures to meet the Office of Utilities Regulation’s (OUR) standards and...

A deep-seated need to aid rural education prompted the Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Maggotty, St. Elizabeth, to launch the Holy Spirit Education Programme that has been a cornerstone of support for the academically vulnerable and underprivileged students in the parish. The initiative is more than 20 years old and has assisted more than 1,000 students at the primary, secondary...

Jamaica’s impending Digital Switchover (DSO) will see significant advancements in the capacity of the country’s public broadcasting infrastructure. DSO refers to the transition from analogue television broadcasting to digital television broadcasting. It will involve a phased transition from the outdated analogue technology to the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0, also referred to as Next Generation (NextGen) TV. ATSC 3.0...

A library has been established at the Jamaica China Goodwill (JCG) Infant School in the St. Andrew community of Olympic Gardens, at a cost of $9 million, to encourage children to read and to boost literacy at the institution. The recently opened library, a gift from the charity group Reading Owl International (ROI), will also serve two primary schools, also...

Two retired Educators who jointly served for more than 60 years in the sector were acknowledged as ‘Builders’ of the Kitson Town community in St. Catherine and celebrated for their decades of service. They are 71-year-old Beverley Robinson, who served as a Teacher at the Kitson Town Basic School for 41 years and 83-year-old Yvonne Francis, who worked at the...

The newly completed three-bedroom structure on a large expanse of land in Haughton District, St. Elizabeth, is a stark contrast to the makeshift tarpaulin hut in which Lacovia High School student, Tanoya Williams, and her family lived for six years. The house, handed over to the family recently, was constructed by the Lacovia High School Past Students’ Association over a...

Persons, particularly the elderly, who have never received a birth certificate can still request one from the Registrar General's Department (RGD), through its Late Registration process. While every birth that occurs in Jamaica must be registered with the RGD, there was a period in which children were being registered, but not named at the time of birth. For those children...

David Salmon’s vision, just over seven years ago, of becoming a Rhodes Scholar is, today, a reality. He topped the field of 11 Jamaican candidates – seven males and four females – vying for the globally acclaimed Rhodes Scholarship for 2023. The past student of Wolmer’s Boys’ School in Kingston has an undergraduate degree in Public Policy and Management with...