Minister of Education and Youth, Maxine Henry-Wilson, has encouraged graduates of the National Youth Service (NYS) Behaviour Modification Programme to see themselves as agents of change, by positively influencing the...

Seven schools with Special Education programmes, were yesterday (June 29) awarded by the Ministry of Education and Youth's Special Education Unit for excellence in literacy. At an awards ceremony held...

Some 70 per cent of pest control operators now have liability insurance since it became mandatory in 2006.Registrar of the Pesticides Control Authority (PCA), Hyacinth Chin Sue Walters, told JIS...

By September, the Ministry of Labour and Social Security will be using a Revised Proxy-Means Scoring Formula, which will serve to better identify and capture the socio-economic conditions of families...

The Government and the European Union (EU) have signed a Euro 10.1 million agreement to provide funding for the second phase of the Poverty Reduction Programme (PRP II). "This is...

The National Works Agency (NWA) is implementing a $50 million Urban Traffic Management Programme, which is designed to reduce congestion along major thoroughfares in Kingston and St. Andrew. Speaking with...

State Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, Victor Cummings has said that the Mines and Geology Division continues to promote and encourage the production of manufactured sand from...

A total of 600 students, 300 from St. James and 300 from Hanover, are to benefit under the 2007 National Youth Service (NYS) Summer Employment Programme. The recruitment and orientation...

The United Way of Jamaica has received a $9.2 million donation from Victoria Mutual Building Society (VMBS) towards its campaign for early childhood development, which is its philanthropic project for...

Minister of Education and Youth, Maxine Henry-Wilson, has urged society to join parents in protecting the nation's children and to teach them the right habits so that they can optimize...

The St. Mary Parish Development Committee (PDC) will be conducting a two-day training seminar for young people in the parish, which is designed to prepare them to educate their peers...