2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season Begins

‘Tourism and Jobs: a better future for all’- that’s the theme for Tourism Awareness Week, being observed from September 22 to 28 this year. Leading up to World Tourism Day on September 27, the Ministry of Tourism has planned several activities, beginning with a Thanksgiving Service at Church on the Rock in St. Andrew, on Sunday, September 22. Throughout the week, the Ministry will be highlighting traditional and non-traditional jobs available in the sector with the aim of attracting more Jamaicans, encouraging them to take advantage of emerging opportunities.

On today’s programme, Labour and Social Security Ministry Roadshow reaches 1,200 in Montego Bay, and later, Ms Lou 100, let’s go Roundabout Ja.

Ten wards of the State, pursuing tertiary-level education, have been awarded scholarships valued at 40,000 US dollars by Children of Jamaica Outreach Inc. COJO, a New York-based Jamaican charity. The awardees were nominated by Children’s Officers from various children’s homes, based on their academic performance. They are pursuing studies in the field of education, law, nursing, psychology, architecture, and logistics.

More than 1,700 storyboards depicting aspects of the life and work of Jamaica’s late cultural icon, Dr. Louise Bennett-Coverley, will be donated to schools, libraries, Ministries and Diplomatic Missions. This will be facilitated through a partnership between the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport and Fontana Pharmacy. The storyboard also depicts excerpts from Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Minister of Culture, Olivia Grange on how Miss Lou portrayed Jamaican culture and instilled national pride.

Parents in communities in Western Jamaica are benefitting from parenting workshops staged by the Child Protection and Family Services Agency CPFSA. The objectives of the workshops are: to instill a greater sense of care and responsibility among parents; improve communication between parents and children and address behaviorial problems at home in order to prevent children from entering State care.

Scores of residents in Somerton, St. James, and its environs last week benefited from free dental services during the Great Shape! Inc.1000 Smiles Project dental clinic. The five-day engagement, held at the Somerton All-Age School, was led by a team of 45 professional and student dental care volunteers from the United States of America, Canada, and the Caribbean. The clinic, staged in collaboration with the Sandals Foundation, saw persons receiving fillings, cleanings and extractions, as well as participating in oral health seminars.