The Management Institute for National Development (MIND) is the Government of Jamaica’s pre-eminent and preferred public service training institute mandated to provide effective leadership development programmes and management training appropriate to all levels, an in line with the demands of a modern and competitive public service. The Management Institute for National Development (MIND) is the Government of Jamaica’s pre-eminent and preferred public service training institute mandated to provide effective leadership development programmes and management training appropriate to all levels, an in line with the demands of a modern and competitive public service. MIND was established on February 1, 1994 as a government training institution resulting from the amalgamation of four public sector training organizations (the Administrative Staff College; the Finance and Accounts College of Training; The Secretarial Training College and Mandeville Outreach Training Centre), which themselves had been established between 1975 and 1978.