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Approximately 4,000 children have been registered and proper documentation processed for their birth certificates, under the Registrar General Department's (Grade Six Achievement Test) GSAT initiative. The GSAT initiative is a one-month programme through which officers from the RGD targeted and visited schools across the island during the month of May, to properly register students who have recently sat or will...

Approximately 4,000 children have been registered and proper documentation processed for their birth certificates, under the Registrar General Department's (Grade Six Achievement Test) GSAT initiative. The GSAT initiative is a one-month programme through which officers from the RGD targeted and visited schools across the island during the month of May, to properly register students who have recently sat or will...

The Safe Schools Task Force will meet over two days in Kingston and St. James, to examine recent findings on school violence and discuss strategies to reduce the scourge. The meetings, which will be held at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown and the Wyndham Rose Hall Hotel on June 8 and 9 respectively, will bring together the partners in the...

The Safe Schools Task Force will meet over two days in Kingston and St. James, to examine recent findings on school violence and discuss strategies to reduce the scourge. The meetings, which will be held at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown and the Wyndham Rose Hall Hotel on June 8 and 9 respectively, will bring together the partners in the...

Most Jamaicans, on retirement, can take comfort in the fact that they will still receive a stable and dependable income in the form of a government pension, providing that they have made their contributions under the National Insurance Scheme (NIS). But a retirement pension represents only one aspect of the social security benefits that working Jamaicans are eligible for under...

Most Jamaicans, on retirement, can take comfort in the fact that they will still receive a stable and dependable income in the form of a government pension, providing that they have made their contributions under the National Insurance Scheme (NIS). But a retirement pension represents only one aspect of the social security benefits that working Jamaicans are eligible for under...

June is being observed as Road Safety Month and during the period, focus will be placed re-educating young male drivers about the road code and to encourage them to behave responsibly on the nation's roadways. Special training in road safety would also be provided for them, Janet Peters, ducation/Information Officer attached to the Road Safety Unit, has informed. She noted...

Four-year old Ruel Brown, a student of the Lluidasvale Basic School in St. Catherine, received free medical check up and medicine for his cold at a health fair day held at the school recently. Jacqueline Brown, Ruel's mother, who accompanied him to the health day, said she was happy that her son was able to see a doctor, since he...

June is being observed as Road Safety Month and during the period, focus will be placed re-educating young male drivers about the road code and to encourage them to behave responsibly on the nation's roadways. Special training in road safety would also be provided for them, Janet Peters, ducation/Information Officer attached to the Road Safety Unit, has informed. She noted...

Four-year old Ruel Brown, a student of the Lluidasvale Basic School in St. Catherine, received free medical check up and medicine for his cold at a health fair day held at the school recently. Jacqueline Brown, Ruel's mother, who accompanied him to the health day, said she was happy that her son was able to see a doctor, since he...

Efforts by the Ministry of Justice to bring further improvement to the system of court administration in the country will be advanced with a one-week training programme, scheduled to begin on Monday, June 6, 2005 at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Hotel, Ocho Rios, St. Ann. The seminar, which was designed specifically for the Court Administrators will address a range of...

Efforts by the Ministry of Justice to bring further improvement to the system of court administration in the country will be advanced with a one-week training programme, scheduled to begin on Monday, June 6, 2005 at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Hotel, Ocho Rios, St. Ann. The seminar, which was designed specifically for the Court Administrators will address a range of...