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As part of its 40th anniversary celebrations, the Edwin Allen High School in North Clarendon has unveiled a bust of the late Edwin Allen, founder of the school and the first Minister of Education in independent Jamaica. At the ceremony, which was held yesterday (June 9), at the school, Minister of Education, Youth and Culture, Maxine Henry-Wilson described Mr. Allen...

Government's effort to reduce violence in schools has been boosted with a $20 million grant from the European Union to fund the Safe Schools Programme. The allocation, which was made in May, is in addition to budgetary support from the Government of Jamaica and should finance the various facets of the programme until the end of the 2006 academic year....

State Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Delano Franklyn will be the special guest of the Jamaican Diaspora, United Kingdom (UK) next weekend. Senator Franklyn, who has special responsibility for Jamaicans overseas, will officially open the UK Diaspora's Immigration Forum at Stonebridge Park and will be the guest speaker at the inaugural Ball set for...

Forty-eight Nigerian volunteer nurses are expected to arrive in the island on Monday (June 13), as part of the bilateral agreement between the Jamaican and Nigerian governments on the Technical Aid Corps (TAC) Scheme, to bring health professionals to the country to assist in areas where there is urgent need. The arrival of the nurses is timely, in light of...

Dr. Kwak Tint, Medical Officer of Health for Westmoreland, has warned parents and guardians to ensure that their children were fully immunized or face prosecution under the public health laws. Dr. Tint noted that parents, because of their lack of compliance, could leave their children susceptible to serious diseases such as polio, measles, mumps, diphtheria and rubella, which, under the...

Opposition Spokesman on Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Karl Samuda has said that the Jamaica Labour Party's commitment to support efforts to reduce crime and violence was without question. Mr. Samuda was speaking in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (June 8), where he sought to clarify the Opposition's position on meeting the stipulations of the Private Sector Organisation's Emancipation...

The rehabilitation of the troubled boys and girls entrusted to its care, is not a responsibility the Department of Correctional Services takes lightly. From tending to the educational well being of its young charges through the school-based curriculum it offers, to the provision of vocational training to improve their employability opportunities, the Department is intent on charting better futures for...

Minister of Agriculture, Roger Clarke has lauded the performance of the Agricultural Support Services Project (ASSP), noting that it has enhanced the delivery of support services to farmers and improved agricultural healthy and food safety systems. "I am pleased with the performance of this project, as it moves into a second phase, which has been approved because of its outstanding...

As part of its 40th anniversary celebrations, the Edwin Allen High School in North Clarendon has unveiled a bust of the late Edwin Allen, founder of the school and the first Minister of Education in independent Jamaica. At the ceremony, which was held yesterday (June 9), at the school, Minister of Education, Youth and Culture, Maxine Henry-Wilson described Mr. Allen...

Government's effort to reduce violence in schools has been boosted with a $20 million grant from the European Union to fund the Safe Schools Programme. The allocation, which was made in May, is in addition to budgetary support from the Government of Jamaica and should finance the various facets of the programme until the end of the 2006 academic year....

State Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Delano Franklyn will be the special guest of the Jamaican Diaspora, United Kingdom (UK) next weekend. Senator Franklyn, who has special responsibility for Jamaicans overseas, will officially open the UK Diaspora's Immigration Forum at Stonebridge Park and will be the guest speaker at the inaugural Ball set for...

Forty-eight Nigerian volunteer nurses are expected to arrive in the island on Monday (June 13), as part of the bilateral agreement between the Jamaican and Nigerian governments on the Technical Aid Corps (TAC) Scheme, to bring health professionals to the country to assist in areas where there is urgent need. The arrival of the nurses is timely, in light of...