Find Your Programme

Skills for the Future graduate reaps rewards
Javaughn Douglas, a recent graduate of the Flow Foundation’s Skills for the Future digital literacy programme, is ready to put his training to good use after being selected for an internship with technology company Fujitsu. Douglas, who was the valedictorian and top overall student with an average of 99.6 per cent for the second cohort of graduates in April, will gain valuable experience as a data entry clerk. He said the Skills for the Future programme played a tremendous role in ››Read More
Delroy Hunter | The cost of using fiscal councils to achieve discipline
Jamaica is in the process of establishing a fiscal council, an entity tasked with assisting the government in conducting more fiscally responsible operations. If the government emulates the best in class, then the local fiscal council should be a legally and operationally independent entity that assesses government’s forecasts of revenues and expenses, develops its own forecasts, makes possibly binding recommendations on matters of fiscal policy, and robustly communicates with th ››Read More
450 graduate from FLOW Skills for the Future programme
The FLOW Foundation recently graduated 450 students from its second cohort of the Skills for the Future Programme. The recent graduation now brings the total to almost 600 Jamaicans that have successfully completed the programme, many of whom are employing the skills they have learnt in their daily lives. Kayon Mitchell, executive director of the FLOW Foundation, commended the graduates for their commitment to improving themselves. The graduates included high school students as we ››Read More
Lawrence Nicholson | Family business governance is critical
    Good governance is critical for effective generational transition and sustainability of family-owned businesses, FOBs, and goes beyond boards of directors and advisory boards. There is the need to adopt a family governance framework to address the ad hoc, disorganised and informal approach to governance observed in many FOBs The framework refers to joint decision-making among family members, structures and processes that families use to guide their relationships within the ››Read More

MSBM Online Public Forum - "Do Financial Markets Bear the Cost of Curbing Government Fiscal Indiscipline?"

Mona School of Business and Management (MSBM) invites you to a Public Forum on May 31, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. under the theme, “Do Financial Markets Bear the Cost of Curbing Government Fiscal Indiscipline? Global Evidence from Fiscal Councils (with Implications for Jamaica)”. 

The UWI and University of Waterloo, Canada sign a Student Mobility Agreement to facilitate Exchange of Students
            The University of the West Indies (The UWI) and Canada’s University of Waterloo (UW) have renewed a landmark student mobility agreement. After finalising the details of the arrangement in 2021, officials of the two Universities met virtually on Thursday May 5 for the symbolic signing of the agreement. The agreement strengthens opportunities for internationalizing educational programmes through student mobility initiatives, aimed at developing global citizenship, ››Read More
Subscribe to