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Principal of Yallahs High School in St. Thomas, Mark Malabver, addresses the recent launch of the Management Institute for National Development's (MIND) Repository of Public Sector Publication and Research at the entity's offices in St. Andrew. Seated (from left) are Librarian at MIND, Christopher Thomas; Registry and Records Management Officer, Evelyn Sutherland; and Manager of Research and Information Management, Kirk Frankson.
Principal of Yallahs High School in St. Thomas, Mark Malabver, addresses the recent launch of the Management Institute for National Development's (MIND) Repository of Public Sector Publication and Research at the entity's offices in St. Andrew. Seated (from left) are Librarian at MIND, Christopher Thomas; Registry and Records Management Officer, Evelyn Sutherland; and Manager of Research and Information Management, Kirk Frankson.

MIND Launches Repository of Public Sector Publications and Research

By: Judith Hunter, April 10, 2018
Jamaica and the Caribbean’s premier public-sector training and leadership development organisation, the Management Institute for National Development (MIND), now has a Repository of Public Sector Publications and Research. Recently launched...
Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Alando Terrelonge (right), examines the mural he unveiled as part of the official opening of the University of Technology (UTech) 60th Anniversary visual art exhibition, ‘Legacies’, at its Old Hope Road location in Kingston on Thursday (April 5). The mural was created by students of UTech on the wall of the Centre for the Arts, where the exhibition is being showcased. Also admiring the artwork (from left) are Director, Centre for the Arts, Philip Clarke; Associate Vice President, Advancement Division, UTech, Hector Wheeler; and Curator and Visual Arts Educator, UTech, Dr. Winston Campbell.

Programme to Help Creative Industry Practitioners

By: Alecia Smith, April 6, 2018
Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid (left), speaks with children and a guardian during his tour of the Zone of Special Operations in Denham Town on Wednesday (April 4). At right is Assistant Superintendent Coleridge Minto, Director of the Safety and Security in Schools Programme in the Ministry.

Unattached Youth Encouraged to Register for Skills-Based Programmes

By: Ainsworth Morris, April 5, 2018

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Chairman, National Irrigation Commission Limited, Senator Aubyn Hill (right), presents a cheque to secondary-level scholarship recipient, Abigail Pollack, at the organisation’s awards ceremony, held in Kingston on Tuesday (March 27).
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Head of the Physical Education Department at The Mico University College, Dr. Carol Long (left); President of The Mico University College, Asburn Pinnock (second left), and Lecturer in the Department of Physical Education, Janet Guy, receive netballs, footballs and volleyballs from Resident Representative for the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Jamaica Office, Tobita Kenji (fourth left), and JICA Volunteer for Physical Health Education, Keiichiro Hirano, at a handover ceremony at Mico, in Kingston, on March 26.
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