Chief Education Officer at the Ministry of Education, Mrs. Grace McLean. (JIS) Chief Education Officer in the Ministry of Education, Grace McLean is reporting that the 2010-2011 academic year got underway with few hitches, with at least 98 per cent of schools fully re-opened. “The reports have been coming in from the Regions and so [...]
World and Olympic sprint champion, Usain Bolt (left), signs a copy of his new book -’Usain Bolt:9.58′, for High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Anthony Johnson, at the launch, held at the offices of HarperCollins Publishers, in London, on September 1. LONDON (JIS) High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK), His Excellency Anthony Johnson, was [...]
Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon Pearnel Charles. (JIS) Registered Government nurses resumed normality Friday afternoon (September 3), after a meeting with Minister of Labour and Social Security, the Hon Pearnel Charles, at his Ministry, North Street, Kingston. Mr. Charles told JIS News after meeting with NAJ President, Edith Allwood-Anderson, and her team, that [...]
Parents of sprint champion, Usain Bolt, Jennifer Bolt (3rd left) and Wellesley Bolt (2nd left), present a plaque of their son’s achievements to Jamaica’s High Commissioner to Canada, Her Excellency Sheila Sealy Monteith (3rd right), following the Independence Church Service in Toronto, Canada, recently. Looking on (from left) are: Patrick Cawley of PCF Company Ltd., [...]
Minister of Transport and Works, Hon. Michael Henry, addressing Wednesday’s (September 1) launch of the St. Thomas leg of the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP), at the Paul Bogle Round-a-Bout, Morant Bay. (JIS) The St. Thomas leg of the Government’s multi-billion dollar Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) was launched on Wednesday (September 1), during a [...]
Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw (left) speakS at a press conference held at the Ministry in Kingston, on Friday, August 27. At right is Governor of the Bank of Jamaica, Mr. Brian Wynter. (JIS) Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw, has charged commercial banks to be [...]
Minister of Water and Housing, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang (right) is assisted by home owner, Jennifer Marfo (centre), and Member of Parliament for South East St. Andrew, Maxine Henry-Wilson (left), in cutting the ribbon to open one of the recently completed townhouses in Stadium Gardens, St. Andrew on Wednesday (August 25). (JIS) Just over a [...]
Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw speaking at a press conference held at the Ministry in Kingston, today (August 27), to discuss the results of the IMF’s second quarter economic review of the country. (JIS) Jamaica has again met the performance targets under the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Stand-By Arrangement (SBA), [...]
Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding (centre), and Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), are presented with the documents for the official handing over of $4 billion in budget support for the Debt Reduction and Growth Enhancement Programme, and the sugar industry, at Jamaica House, today (August 26), by Head [...]
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dr. Christopher Tufton (right), hands agronomist Morris Taylor an onion he reaped in one of the plots at the Bodles Research Station in St. Catherine, Tuesday (August 24), while attending Onion Field Day activities at the research centre. Looking on are Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, [...]
