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On this edition of Health line we take a look at stress management.

The Student’s Loan Bureau recently received a major cash injection to its revolving loan fund, to enable more persons access tertiary education. And a state of the art school for special needs is being built in Westmoreland, through public private partnership. Stay with us to find out how these and other developments are in keeping with government’s strategic focus on...

Several Government agencies are set to benefit from the new phase of the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience launched recently.On today’s programme, we highlight some improvements brought about through phase two of the PPCR.

Economic Growth & Job Creation: Sutherland Global Services

Achieving sustainable economic growth presents the best avenue for helping Jamaica attain developed country status by the year 2030.To this end, the Government is actively pursuing private-sector led development initiatives. The focus is on establishing a competitive and enabling business environment to attract the vital investments required to support strong economic growth and sustained development.

Facilitating further improvements in the education system remains a major priority of the government. In 2016, the Ministry of Education wants to be more efficient in the delivery of Education and training to better equip Jamaicans to function in the labour force.

A seventeen member delegation from Jamaica headed by Foreign Affairs Minister AJ Nicholson, recently attended the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP 21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), held in Paris, France. In today’s programme, we highlight some of the outcomes from the conference and the determined contributions of the country.

Jamaica is poised to benefit significantly from the development of new and emerging industries, which will create employment for citizens.

The strategic approaches of the JCF are aimed at protecting Jamaicans and promoting lawfulness. JCF’s latest crime-fighting initiative dubbed Get the Guns aims to reduce the number of illegal firearms across the island and lower the murder rate.

The Government remains committed to providing education for individual and family advancement as well as national development.One method through which it has sought to reinforce this goal is the improvement of schools.This is geared at increasing classroom spaces, and ultimately the removal of the shift system. Several schools have had their facilities improved in recent months. We examine some of these...

In today’s programme we tell you about government’s efforts to provide relief for person who have been facing the negative effects of climate change in the agricultural industry.

The Government continues to put the necessary measures in place to improve the ease and speed of doing business in Jamaica.These measures have resulted in Jamaica receiving an improved ranking by seven places in the 2016 Doing Business Report.