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WASHINGTON — A variety of top Jamaican gourmet foods will be on show in the United States capital, at the 57th Summer International Fancy Food Show, to be held at the Walter E.  Washington Convention Center, beginning this weekend.  The Jamaican Promotion Corporation, JAMPRO, is leading a delegation of exporters in the agro-processing sector to the event, which lasts from...

KINGSTON — Youth, Sports and Culture Minister, Hon. Olivia Grange, says exposure to armed violence, sexual abuse and exploitation, particularly for commercial purposes, are some of the major challenges facing children. Speaking at the second regional meeting of  the Inter-American Programme for the Prevention and Eradication of Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Illegal Trafficking and Trade in Children and Adolescents, at the...

Chief Education Officer in the Ministry of Education, Grace McLean, says the Ministry is putting measures in place to improve the achievement of males, as part of the education transformation thrust. "The scale of underachievement points to the need for systemic changes in the way that education is planned and delivered. The need to raise the achievement of our boys...

KINGSTON — Prime Minister Bruce Golding has challenged public sector workers to help to accelerate the projections of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and to assist in improving the labour productivity of the country. Speaking at the Signing of the public sector wage agreement between the Government and public sector groups at Jamaica House on July 7, the Prime Minister said, “the...

KINGSTON — The Government and unions representing public sector workers today July 7, 2011 signed the Heads of Agreement for the payment of the outstanding seven per cent salary increase and retroactive payments owed to civil servants. Speaking at the signing ceremony at the Office of the Prime Minister, Minister with responsibility for the Public Service, Senator the Hon. Arthur...

KINGSTON — Since its inception in 2003, the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund has received over a billion dollars from the industry towards the arts and culture sub-sector. Of that amount, some $114 million has been allocated to the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), an agency of the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture mandated to unearth,...

KINGSTON — As part of its mandate to develop the 'green sector' in an applied way, the Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMI) has commissioned its Green Energy Project. The project, developed through sponsorship from the Canada Fund for Local Initiative, is designed to provide low cost solutions to fisherfolk on the Pedro Cays, for keeping fish healthy after catch, while creating...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has named Attorney-at-Law Ransford Braham as the new Attorney General who will serve in the position with that office separated from the Ministerial portfolio of Justice. Explaining the decision to separate the responsibilities, Prime Minister Golding said he had done so based on the very strong recommendations of the recently concluded Manatt Commission of Enquiry. He pointed out that the Attorney General does not...

MONTEGO BAY — The Montego Bay Boys' and Girls' Club has received a cheque for $300,000 from Executive Director of Reggae SumFest, Johnny Gourzong, to assist in the procurement of musical instruments for their band. The Jamaica Fire Brigade, Montego Bay, also received a gift from the organizers of Reggae SumFest, of a new computer valued at approximately $100,000. The...

KINGSTON — Effective Monday, July 11 the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) will be extending a six-week amnesty to persons, who are building or have had construction done without the approval of the council. “We are appealing to persons to take in whatever drawings they have to be reviewed and we will see whether or not it is possible...

KINGSTON — Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, has appealed for a collaborative effort from a wider cross-section of stakeholders, to rid the society of the commercial sexual exploitation of its children. The Minister made the appeal in a brief speech delivered by the Director of the National STI/HIV Programme, Dr. Kevin Harvey, at the opening of the Inter-American Programme...

KINGSTON — Group Managing Director of the National Commercial Bank (NCB), Patrick Hylton, denied any connection between the sale of the bank to billionaire Jamaican-Canadian Michael Lee Chin’s AIC Limited, and his position as its current boss, at Wednesday's sitting of the FINSAC Commission of Enquiry. Asked by attorney-at-law for several FINSAC creditors who were victims of the 1990s meltdown,...