Work is advancing on the five-year US$15 million Global Services Sector (GSS) Project, being implemented by the Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO). Funded by a loan that was signed in 2019 between the Government and the  Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the project focuses on upskilling Jamaica’s workforce, particularly young people, to prepare them for jobs in the global services sector. A...

Students attending the Wolmer’s Girls’, Boys’ and Prep schools have been given an opportunity to explore and innovate in an autonomous robotics programme. The programme, which is led by the Wolmer’s Technology Committee (WTC), emphasises Coding and Software Development, Fabrication, Sensors and Electronics and Simulations. This summer, students can participate in an internship course hosted by the WTC, to create...

Parents are being encouraged to take advantage of the help offered by the Dispute Resolution Foundation (DRF). Manager of the Youth Services and Administration Division, at the DRF, Cherrol Taylor, wants parents and guardians to know they are not entirely alone in helping their children to develop. “Help is here; take it. That is what I want to say to...

Quizzes, games and robust discussion sessions were just some of the learning tools utilised by teachers in the online classroom space during the just concluded academic year as they rose to the occasion, adapting, learning and employing innovative means to reach students. School plants were closed in March 2020 as part of measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus...

Jamaica’s healthcare sector will receive a massive boost with the establishment of a pharmaceutical sterile compounding laboratory at the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona. The sterile compounding laboratory, which is the first of its kind in the English-speaking Caribbean, will facilitate the preparation of medication that is customised to particular types of treatments and...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is on a drive to put unused lands into food production. Recently, 9,000 acres were transferred from the National Land Agency (NLA), and are now being allocated for farming. Portfolio Minister, Hon. Floyd Green, has said that personnel from the Ministry and the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) are going across the island “organising...

Without the $500,000 grant from M & M Jamaica Limited, Gavieal Gordon, a third-year medical student at the University of the West Indies (UWI), would not have been able to meet her financial obligations to the university and faced the possibility of being deregistered. Ms. Gordon, who hails from the community of Woodford in East Rural St. Andrew, had made...

The five-year sports development plan at Maggotty High School, in St. Elizabeth,  has been reaping success after the institution placed 10th nationally, following the recent 2021 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championship. This is the highest level the school has achieved after years of competing in the annual sporting competition. Now, all eyes are on the 50-year-old institution whose motto is: ‘Striving...

The New Social Housing Programme (NSHP), initiated in 2018 by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, is enabling poor and indigent persons to own their own home. Being implemented under the Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment Programme (HOPE), with oversight by the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, the initiative aims to improve the housing condition of the...