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The United Nations (UN) defines chess as a two-player strategy board game where the aim is to move different types of playing piece, each with a prescribed set of possible moves, around a checkered square board. Roughly 70% of the adult population worldwide, primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, and India has played chess at some point...

Mr. Ray Howell served as principal of Edith Dalton James High school from 2006 to 2016 and is credited for playing a key role in the expansion and transformation of the institution. In recognition of his invaluable contribution to the school, its grade-11 building was officially renamed the Ray Howell Building during a special ceremony on the campus on Friday...

On today’s programme, we will be highlighting a crime prevention initiative of the United States Agency for International Development and some of the achievements of the project.

Cybersecurity refers to the precautions taken to prevent unauthorized access to or attacks on a computer or computer system. Cyberattackers typically try to access, alter, or delete sensitive data, disrupt regular business, or take money from customers using ransomware - a type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid....

All roads lead the National Indoor Sports Centre and the National Arena from Thursday April 27 – Sunday April 30 for the 48th staging of Expo Jamaica, the largest exhibition and trade show in the Caribbean. 374 participants have registered for this year’s expo, and will allow Jamaican businesses to meet buyers from all over the globe. The event is...

96 wards at the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre in Spanish Town, St. Catherine are benefitting from the renovation of a block on the compound.

The Department of Correctional Services’ rehabilitation programmes incorporate educational and recreational activities and programmes that provide employment opportunities for the inmates.

Nineteen students - 8 boys and 11 girls, from Maggotty High School in St. Elizabeth represented their school and community at the 2023 staging of the ISSA Boys and Girls Championships recently. The school’s 8-member boys’ team garnered enough points at the end of the championships to give the school its best placing to date, finishing in 9th place with...

The Ministry of Education and Youth’s Math Counts program was introduced in 2013 as part of plans to enhance the teaching and learning of Mathematics across the country’s schools. In the roll out National Mathematics Coordinator at the Ministry of Education and Youth, Dr. Tamika Benjamin, outlined that the Ministry had identified a negative perception towards the subject among students....

Effective April 1, Jamaicans are no longer be required to pay tuition or administrative fees for HEART-NSTA Trust programmes up to level four. This was announced by Prime Minister Andrew Holness during his contribution to the 2023 National Budget debate in March.

Have you ever wondered how manufactures are able to get your favourite snack to taste the same every time? Or how it is that you can go to lab to do a test and be assured that the result is accurate? The answer to these questions are found in one-word – standards.

Thirteen-year-old Adrianna Laing, the only survivor of a fire that took the lives of her three brothers in Springfield, Westmoreland, in September 2022, is now home, after being successfully treated in the United States (US).