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KINGSTON — Students participating in the National Summer Employment Programme (NESP) are hailing the Government-funded initiative for giving them the opportunity to gain valuable work experience and contribute to nation building. The programme, administrated by the National Youth Service (NYS), aims to engage high school and tertiary level students in productive activity during the summer, in government and private sector...

KINGSTON — Two hundred and fifty librarians and educators from more than 20 countries across the globe are expected to converge at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona from August 5 to 11 for the 40th Annual Conference of the International Association of School Librarianship (IASL).  The role of school libraries in empowering the 21st Century learner will...

MONTEGO BAY — The HEART Trust/NTA's Falmouth Vocational Training Centre (VTC) is equipping residents with skills to become entrepreneurs and to serve Trelawny’s burgeoning tourism industry, recently offering a training programme in the old and beautiful art of glass bead making. Approximately 18 persons from various communities in the parish recently completed a three-week course conducted by international expert Professor...

KINGSTON — Minister of Finance and the Public Service, the Hon Audley Shaw, has reiterated that the International Monetary's Fund's (IMF) third (December) and fourth (March) quarterly reviews of Jamaica's performance have not yet been considered by the IMF Board of Directors. Mr. Shaw has also assured that Jamaica will live up to its commitments with the IMF, as this...

The Minister of Finance The Hon. Audley Shaw is referring the public to his July 13 statement on progress being made on issues related to Jamaica’s 3rd (December) and 4th (March) quarterly IMF reviews (see www.mof.gov.jm). The 3rd (December) and 4th (March) reviews of Jamaica’s programme with the IMF have not yet been considered by the IMF Board of Directors....

MONTEGO BAY — Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, participated in the handing out of over 4,000 motor vehicle litter bags, valued at $500,000, to operators of ground transport and route taxis in Montego Bay, as the Ministry intensified the environmental phase of its Spruce-up Jamaica campaign on Friday July 28. Addressing participants at the handing over held at the...

KINGSTON — Minister of Housing, Environment and Water, Dr. Horace Chang, says details of Government's national housing policy will be presented in Parliament, when it resumes after the summer recess. Speaking at Friday's July 29 titles presentation for the Eden Park housing development, at the Eden Park sports complex, Jack's River, St. Mary Dr. Chang said that the policy will...

The National Works Agency (NWA) is advising that the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) funded Phase II of the Fern Gully Restoration and Rehabilitation Project is on schedule to be substantially completed by mid December this year when the roadway will be reopened to traffic. Manager of Communication and Customer Services at the National Works Agency Stephen Shaw says that...

MONTEGO BAY — Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange has called on Jamaicans to embrace the principles of unity, self-determination and love, and to decide on the role that each has to play in advancing the welfare of the whole human race. "As we mark the international year for people of African descent and as we celebrate...

KINGSTON — The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), launched its own brand of compost on July 31, at the Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show,  in May Pen,  Clarendon. Addressing the launch, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Robert Montague, said the new product is one of the innovations of the NSWMA, and forms part of the re-organisation of...

KINGSTON — The Ministry of Housing, Environment and Water and the National Commercial Bank (NCB) on August 2, signed a US$37 million contract for the refinancing of an existing loan for the Central Wastewater Treatment Company. Speaking at the ceremony, which was held at the NCB’s Trafalgar Road headquarters, Minister of Housing, Environment and Water, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, said...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding (left) is greeted by passengers on the train travelling to the Denbigh Agricultural and Industrial Show in Clarendon yesterday August 1. Prime Minister Golding, who delivered the main address at the 59th staging of the Agricultural Show, boarded the train at the Spanish Town Railway Station with several Government Ministers. Photographed also are:(right)Minister of Health, Rudyard...