The Government has increased the 2008/2009 Budget by $18.4 billion, with the bulk of the additional expenditure going to liquidity support for the financial sector, as well as increased salaries...

Cabinet has approved the award of two contracts, totalling just over $277 million, to effect construction work at two schools in Portland and St. Ann. Speaking at last week's post-Cabinet...

The Early Childhood Commission (ECC), in collaboration with the George Brown College and the Canadian High Commission, has launched a Best Practices Document for Early Childhood Development. The document, 'Best...

As the Ministry of Education targets 100 per cent literacy, a number of interventions will be made at the primary level, including a screening programme for children entering Grade 1,...

A resource centre, valued at some $3 million, and equipped with modern teaching and learning aides, has been established at the Duckenfield Primary School in St. Thomas. The centre, financed...

Minister of Education, Andrew Holness, has said that tertiary students, who have benefitted from the Government's investment in their education, have a social responsibility to give back to the country....

Resource rooms, equipped with technology to enhance the literacy and numeracy skills of students, will be established in some 12 primary schools across the island. Digicel Foundation is undertaking the...

Education Minister, Andrew Holness, is urging tertiary students to maximise opportunities as the Government's investment in tertiary education is a trade off, which has a ripple effect on the entire...

The Diaspora organisation Read Across Jamaica Foundation, has extended its literacy programme to the Auchtembedie All-age in Manchester, on Monday (Jan. 19) donating reading material and a computer to the...

The Ministry of Education's (MOE) Competence-based Transition Policy, which will ensure that every child progressing to secondary school is literate, will come into effect in June this year. Senior Director...

The country's health sector has been boosted with the recent graduation of 44 general nursing and basic midwifery students from the Cornwall School of Nursing. Addressing the graduating ceremony held...