NSWMA launches 'Clean School' competition
In a bid to protect the environment and minimise the disastrous effects of global warming, the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) on Wednesday launched the 2007-2008 Clean School competition for primary and preparatory schools.
$30m rehabilitation for police training facilities
SPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine: The police training facilities at Twickenham Park in St. Catherine are set to undergo a massive rehabilitation exercise, totalling some $30 million. This was reiterated yesterday by National Security Minister Derrick Smith, who was on a tour...
Work permit decisions next week
WESTERN BUREAU: Applicants requesting work permits are expected to know their fate by next Wednesday, as the Minister of Labour and Social Security, Pearnel Charles, will today resume the processing of applications. Some 600 applications are currently on the minister's desk,...
National PTA group blasts curfew plan on children
The National Parent-Teacher Association of Jamaica (NPTAJ) says it is against a 9:30 p.m. curfew for children to be off the streets between Sunday and Thursday, unless accompanied by an adult. The call for a curfew was made on Wednesday by the Kingston and St. Andrew Action Forum...
Marcus Garvey Drive repairs to cost $642m
The Government is to spend a little more than US$9 million (J$642 million) to carry out major rehabilitation works on Marcus Garvey Drive in an effort to improve the flow of traffic from the Portmore leg of Highway 2000 to downtown Kingston. ...
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Prime Minister promises better use of development fund in Jamaica
Prime Minister Bruce Golding on Tuesday told the House of Representatives that the Government is committed to ensuring that funds from the Capital Development Fund (CDF) are put to their original purpose of restoring and redeveloping mined-out communities...
Bulb probe pushes ahead
Contractor General Greg Christie says his office is working assiduously to complete its probe into the contro-versial Cuban light-bulb project.Mr. Christie told The Gleaner that once his investigation was complete, he would submit a report to head of the Petroleum Corporation...
Abortion report is coming to House
The following is the answer to a question asked of the Minister of Health Rudyard Spencer by PNP Member of Parliament Ronald Thwaites.Question: Is the Government contemplating any change in the law relating to abortion?Answer: The issue of abortion has...
Seeds distributed to farmers
Albert Shand, executive director of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority, says that 60 per cent of more than 900 pounds of vegetable seeds have been distributed to farmers islandwide who suffered loss from Hurricane Dean. The Ministry of Agriculture and Lands...
Glow sticks shine in memory of slain kids
Several hundred glow sticks illuminating the dark night stood as a blinding memory of the 289 children who have been violently killed in Jamaica over the last three years."Our children are hurting.They are dying and we need to do something about it," were the words...
Education officer receives Civil Servant award
Educator, counsellor, mother and pastor, Mary-Ann Nichols has been actively contributing to the country's education system for the past 32 years. Starting out as a school-teacher at the Catadupa All-Age School in St. James, the devote Christian has served as an education officer ...
Inland Revenue officer to face forgery charge
Erldine Brown, principal collector, at the Inland Revenue Department in St.Ann's Bay, St. Ann, is to return to the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on January 14, 2008, to answer to a forgery charge. It is being alleged that in May this year...
Place HEART/NTA under Ministry of Labour - Professor
Professor Gossett Oliver, vice-president at the School of Graduate Studies, Research and Entrepreneurship at the University of Technology, has recommended that the HEART Trust/NTA be placed under the Ministry of Labour. The training agency is a statutory...
Cobb to be guest speaker at Women's Leadership dinner
Former United States Ambassador to Jamaica and current President of the American Friends of Jamaica, Ambassador Sue Cobb, will be the guest speaker at the Women's Leadership Initiative (WLI) annual fund-raising dinner at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel on Thursday...
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