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The dream of owning a home is now a reality for a significantly larger number of persons, since the National Housing Trust (NHT) revised its lending policies earlier this year, to make it more affordable and accessible to buy a house. Since the implementation of the new measures, the NHT is reporting a 53.6 per cent increase in open market...

With the start of the new academic year less than three weeks away, the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is encouraging commuters, especially students, to use the Smart Card to make their travel easier. In an interview with JIS News, Corporate Communications Manager at the JUTC, Mr. Reginald Allen, says that the card provides a safe way of paying fares...

Senior Land Tenure Specialist with the Land Administration and Management Programme (LAMP), Lisa Campbell, has said that the land titling initiative is helping persons to own their homes. Miss Campbell, who was addressing the weekly meeting of the Rotary Club of Mandeville at the Golf View Hotel on Tuesday (August 17), said that the programme, geared to fast tracking the...

Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, has asked residents of Tredegar Park, St. Catherine to make every effort to ensure that their children return to school when the new academic year begins in September. The Minister, who toured the Tredegar Park All-Age School, among other places, on Thursday (August 19), said he visited to reassure parents that the Government would...

Back to school expenses for one university student and 30 others entering high school have been significantly reduced, having been awarded a scholarship and several bursaries by the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) and Partners Co-operative Credit Union Limited. The presentations were made Thursday (August 19) at an awards function at the Knutsford Court Hotel in Kingston. Speaking at the awards...

Cabinet is expected to sign off on an agreement to purchase a property in St. Elizabeth to accommodate the new "time out" facility for disruptive students. Minister of Education, the Hon Andrew Holness, gave an assurance on Wednesday (August 18) when he addressed the Jamaica Teachers' Association's 46th Annual Conference at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Resort, Ocho Rios, St. Ann....

It is expected that 6,700 jobs will be created for Jamaicans, with the $36 billion (US$400 million) islandwide road repair project, which is being implemented by the National Works Agency (NWA). The work, which will begin later this year and completed in the course of five years, will be carried out under the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP). This was...

Tuesday, August 17 was designated Marcus Garvey Day by the City of Fort Lauderdale, to commemorate the 123rd anniversary of the birth of National Hero, the Right Excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey. Paying tribute to Jamaica's first National Hero, David Deal of the Sunrise Parks and Recreation Department, presented a proclamation to I. Jabulani Tafari and Douglas Smith of the Rootz...

The first meeting to plan the celebrations and commemoration in the United Kingdom (UK) of Jamaica's 50th anniversary of Independence in 2012, was held on August 17, at the Jamaican High Commission, in London. The Jamaica 2012 planning committee is chaired by High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, His Excellency Anthony Johnson. Tuesday's meeting at the High Commission also included...

Marketing and Communications Manager at the Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT), Richard Kildare, has assured that the Trust will be taking the necessary steps to ensure that more is done to highlight the life and work of National Hero, The Right Excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey, in the parish of his birth, St. Ann. "Last year, the Government of Jamaica instructed...

The Bog Walk Bridge in St. Catherine, which connects the town with Linstead, was officially re-opened on Thursday (August 18) after being closed in 2008 by the National Works Agency (NWA) due to its deterioration. The new bridge, costing over US$2.5 million, was built under the R.A. Murray International Limited/Jamaica Bridge Development Programme. It was completed earlier this year and...