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Against the background of a decline in grants funding for the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), Grenada's Minister of Health and Chair of the Regional Coordinating Mechanism (RCM) of PANCAP, Senator the Hon Ann Peters, wants Caribbean nations to assert their toughness and collectively work for a resolution to the problem. She mentioned the global financial crisis,...

New Scheme football team emerged winners of the Daryl Vaz West Portland Football Corner League competition, at the finals at Lynch Park, Buff Bay, Portland, Wednesday (September 8). The competition, which is in its third year, aims to foster community development and social interaction among residents, as well as showcasing the talents of the youths. Speaking at the presentation ceremony,...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw says with the economy now stabilised, it is time to focus on issues of productivity, production, savings and investment in order to stimulate further growth. Speaking at the 11th annual Shirley Playfair Lecture at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, in New Kingston, on September 9, Mr. Shaw said that critical to...

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), today (September 9), handed over five computers to the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), during a ceremony at the High Commission, in Kingston. The machines, which comprise three desk tops and two lap top computers, will go to the Transnational Crimes and Narcotics Division and other departments of the JCF, to assist with drug interdiction...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has said that the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) will have a positive spin-off by stimulating the economy. Mr. Golding was speaking at the Manchester launch of the JDIP in Christiana on September 9. The JDIP is a five-year public works programme, funded by a loan of $36 billion secured by the Road Maintenance Fund from...

Farmers in the Hounslow area of St. Elizabeth, are to benefit from an 8,800 square foot post-harvest and packaging facility, with the signing of a lease agreement between the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, and GraceKennedy Limited, today (September 9). The private sector conglomerate will operate the $49 million Hounslow packaging house, which was constructed under the Improving Jamaica's Agricultural...

Over 800 students of the four-year-old Foga Road High School, Denbigh, Clarendon began the new school year on a positive note Monday (September. 6), with the official opening of four new classrooms and a computer laboratory. The new classrooms were constructed with assistance from the Clarendon-based Epic Hardware, as well as 17 Bravo Volunteers from bauxite/alumina company, Jamalco, to house...

The strained relationship between the Police and members of the Western Kingston community of Tivoli Gardens, that existed for many years, seems to be at an end. Community policing, which previously was non-existent or very challenging, has taken root in the area, with many of the residents welcoming the change. Deputy Superintendent of Police in charge of the Tivoli Gardens...

The Ministry of Health is projecting significant savings, should all the Public Sector Transformation Unit's (PSTU) recommendations for the restructuring of the Ministry, be implemented. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Dr. Jean Dixon, today (September 8), told a meeting of Parliament's Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC), at Gordon House, that the Government would save approximately $50 million annually, just...

Chairman of the National Housing Trust (NHT), Howard Mitchell, has proposed that a study be conducted to determine exactly what form the Trust should take. The suggestion was made Wednesday (September 8), during a meeting of Parliament's Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC), which is reviewing the recommendations made by the Public Sector Transformation Unit (PSTU) for modernising the public...

Seven ornamental fish farmers in August Town, St. Andrew, were today (September 8), presented with farm systems to start their businesses. Ornamental fish farmers, Rowe Archibald (right) and Rohan Miles (centre) converse with Regional Manager, Hardware and Lumber, Dean Clarke during the handing over of ornamental fish systems to residents of August Town at the home of one of the...

Director General of the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), Sonia Jackson is encouraging Jamaicans to participate in the 2011 Population and Housing Census, as the information they provide will have a direct impact on their quality of life and the socio-economic services that they can access. "The census is extremely important for planning. Human capital is our most important resource...