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This year has been dubbed "International Year of Foot Care" by the Diabetes Association of Jamaica and the organisation, through a donation of 13,000 euros from the German Embassy will launch a course to help foot care specialists render the best possible care to their patients, particularly diabetics. "There is a critical need for foot care specialists in Jamaica, as...

Representatives of the Jamaica 4-H Clubs and the Council for Voluntary Social Services (CVSS) will be touring a number of 4-H projects in St. Elizabeth, which suffered damage during Hurricane Ivan last year, and have since received funding for rehabilitation. The tour, which will take place on Thursday, June 9, will see personnel from both organisations visiting the Warminster Training...

Education stakeholders in Clarendon met last week to discuss the National Task Force on Education report, which came out of the roundtable discussions held across the island last year. In her address at the function held at the Hotel Versalles in May Pen, Minister of Education, Youth and Culture, Maxine Henry Wilson said that the discussion session was among several...

National Security Minister, Dr. Peter Phillips and Opposition Spokesman on National Security, Derrick Smith are to name a small team to meet with private sector representative, Peter Moses to review and revise the code of conduct, which emanated from the May 25 Emancipation Declaration, led by the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ). The declaration, which among other things, calls...

The Government of Jamaica will be taking steps to have the country removed from the watch list issued by the United States State Department, naming Jamaica among 14 countries that have failed to stop the 'trafficking of persons'. The United States last Friday (June 3) cited 14 nations, including Jamaica, of failing to do enough to stop the modern-day slave...

This year has been dubbed "International Year of Foot Care" by the Diabetes Association of Jamaica and the organisation, through a donation of 13,000 euros from the German Embassy will launch a course to help foot care specialists render the best possible care to their patients, particularly diabetics. "There is a critical need for foot care specialists in Jamaica, as...

Representatives of the Jamaica 4-H Clubs and the Council for Voluntary Social Services (CVSS) will be touring a number of 4-H projects in St. Elizabeth, which suffered damage during Hurricane Ivan last year, and have since received funding for rehabilitation. The tour, which will take place on Thursday, June 9, will see personnel from both organisations visiting the Warminster Training...

The Bailleston Primary School in North Clarendon is to benefit from the construction of a computer laboratory and library/reading room at a cost of more than $5 million. "We're very happy to be undertaking this initiative at this time as it will mean an improvement in reading among the students and they will become computer literate.and the overall quality of...

Relatives and friends of inmates of the St. Catherine Adult Correctional Centre can now wait to see their loved ones in the comfort of a visitors' booth situated opposite the institution. Mayor of Spanish Town, Raymoth Notice, officially opened the facility at a ceremony held on Friday (June 3). The event was organised by the Department of Correctional Services. There...

The Bailleston Primary School in North Clarendon is to benefit from the construction of a computer laboratory and library/reading room at a cost of more than $5 million. "We're very happy to be undertaking this initiative at this time as it will mean an improvement in reading among the students and they will become computer literate.and the overall quality of...

Relatives and friends of inmates of the St. Catherine Adult Correctional Centre can now wait to see their loved ones in the comfort of a visitors' booth situated opposite the institution. Mayor of Spanish Town, Raymoth Notice, officially opened the facility at a ceremony held on Friday (June 3). The event was organised by the Department of Correctional Services. There...

The recent allocation of $1.7 billion by the Jamaica Bankers Association (JBA) to the Students' Loan Bureau (SLB), will significantly increase the institution's ability to lend to needy students who wish to pursue higher education. Lenice Barnett, Executive Director of the SLB, tells JIS News that the allocation of the fund will indeed increase the resources that will be available...