Prime Minister, the Most Honorable Portia Simpson-Miller says Jamaica has produced an invaluable array of human capital that continues to represent the country’s greatest national asset for social development and...

My Fellow Jamaicans:   The detachment of Jamaica from the British colonial scaffold 53 years ago, and our emergence as an independent nation-state, was as seminal a moment as it...

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) has spent over $10 billion to implement upwards of 1,600 projects in four parishes, under the European Union (EU) funded, Poverty Reduction Programme (PRP)....

Volunteers who worked with the August Town group of students in the University of Technology Students Council’s  summer outreach project, ‘Teach the Youth’, have given this year’s programme a passing...

It is with deep regret   that I note the passing of Gleaner photographer, Winston Sill, one of the country’s finest in the field. Winston Sill had a long and  distinguished ...

To further strengthen the Social Development Commission (SDC) to facilitate the economic and social empowerment of communities islandwide, Minister of State in the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development,...

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller says Jamaica and other Caribbean countries need greater international support to fight global organised criminals and reduce crime, particularly gun-related murders.   Speaking at the...

Some 200 students attending tertiary and vocational training institutions are slated to benefit from the Jamaica Social Investment Fund’s (JSIF) 2015 Scholarship Programme. The programme, to be launched in three...