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LONDON — The Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation (Norad) says it is willing to look into the possibility of providing funding for the expansion of the Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMI). The commitment is the result of an appeal from Jamaican High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK), Anthony Johnson, who met with senior officials of Norad during his first official...

Some transport operators are expressing satisfaction with the new arrangements at the Downtown Kingston Transportation centre, just over a month into its operation. JIS News recently visited the newly opened centre at Water Lane, and got the views of  some bus operators and commuters. While they noted some concerns that need to be resolved, St. Thomas operators, Kevin Graham* and...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, has underscored Jamaica’s commitment to Haiti, in a brief address to the House of Representatives on the withdrawal of the French-speaking country’s Under-17 football team from a CONCACAF tournament being held in Montego Bay. Mr. Golding spoke on the matter following a statement by Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, on the events leading...

The Ministry of Health is currently exploring the use of the drug, Herberport-P, which is manufactured in Cuba, as a new option for the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers that would reduce the number of amputations in patients. During a press briefing, held yesterday at the Ministry of Health, downtown Kingston, Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, informed that the...

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Governor-General’s Award for Excellence, St. Mary joined other churches on Sunday, February 20 with a service at the Emanuel Baptist Church in Port Maria. The award was first introduced in 1991 during the incumbency of former Governor-General, Sir Howard Cooke, as a gesture of recognition and appreciation for persons who have made themselves...

Former Minister of National Security, Dr. Peter Phillips was back in the witness chair, as the Commission of Enquiry into the extradition request for Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke continued yesterday, at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown, Kingston. Dr. Phillips continued to be questioned on aspects of the Memoranda of Understanding that he signed in 2004 during his tenure as National Security...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding says that any commission of inquiry to find out the cause of the deaths of some 73 persons last May in Tivoli Gardens would need to be informed by the findings of the Public Defender. The Public Defender has indicated that his report will not be ready before September, Mr. Golding said. Mr. Golding was responding to...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding says the church is the most powerful social institution but that power has largely been immobilized because churches have never found a way to come together. “There is no institution other than the church that can speak with the kind of prophetic authority because your (church) authority is not founded in any Constitution” PM Golding said. He was...

More than half of the 1,680 children who went missing during 2010 were found, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) in charge of the Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB), Ealan Powell, has disclosed. Speaking at the opening ceremony for a week-long series of training workshops being hosted by the children’s advocacy group, Hear the Children Cry, at the Altamont Court Hotel, New...

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Karl Samuda, is encouraging local manufacturers to employ the required processes, to ensure their products are of the highest quality that will attract buyers and enable the business to grow and compete. “A product is only as good as the people who make it, the management skills that are applied to it and...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, the Hon. Dr. Kenneth Baugh will depart the island today (February 21) for Grenada, where he will join his CARICOM colleagues in several high level meetings, in particular the 5th Special Meeting of the Community Council of Ministers which is to be held from the 23-24 February 2011. The...

Deputy Financial Secretary in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Ann Marie Rhoden says  more equitable arrangements between the publicandprivate sectors are essential for the success of Government’s infrastructural development programmes. Mrs. Rhoden noted that while the Government has engaged in public-private partnerships (PPPs) for the development of infrastructural works, “what we have recognised is that, government has...