When the New Bail Law takes effect, a person taken into custody and charged with an offence should be offered Post Charge bail within 48 hours. Legal and Constitutional Affairs Minister, Marlene Malahoo Forte points-out that the time factor is one of the changes made to the Act.
Five months after Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced that Jamaicans would no longer be required to pay tuition or administrative fees for HEART-NSTA Trust programs up to level 4, the institution's managing director, Dr. Taneisha Ingleton, is reporting a consistent, significant increase in enrollment. 40,310 students were enrolled in April, and by June that number increased to 50,679.
Fifty students, ranging from early-childhood to tertiary levels, were left beaming with joy after being gifted back to school supplies during a special ceremony at the Dover Seventh-day Adventist Church on Saturday September 2. Held under the theme ‘Education for Eternity… Expanding Your Horizon’, the event sought to rekindle the students’ interest in education ahead of the 2023/24 school year....
Prime Minister Condemns Attack on Integrity Commission Director, Participants in Tourism Incubator to Access To Financing, and Government To Use Mediation To Administer Estates of persons who die Intestate.
Even in the face of adversities, Jamaicans hold true to the saying, “Where there is a will, there is a way.” Many at-risk youth have the will to change the trajectory of their lives, and the Government is determined to provide them with the ways and means to do so. One of its key initiatives for doing so is via...
Minister of Education gives Back to School Update, PATH Reform to be managed by Steering Committee and the Financial Administration and Audit Bill Amended.
It is said that “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” This is one of the strategies of the government as it throws a lifeline to vulnerable youth though the Ministry of Labour and Social Security’s Special Employment Programme.
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