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The Ministry of Water and Housing has received the final draft of a housing policy document from a group of experts, who were hired to formulate the document, last year. Minister of Water and Housing, Hon. Dr. Horace (right), having a light discussion with Chairman of the Construction Industry Council (CIC), Gentle Wallace, at the Council's 50th anniversary banquet, held...

The Office of the Children's Advocate (OCA) has launched a three-month study to assess the profile and backgrounds of children in conflict with the law. Children's Advocate, Mary Clarke said the study is to gather information on child offenders in order to ascertain the causes behind the phenomenon and make the necessary recommendations to the relevant institutions, so that effective...

Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Hon. Kamla Persad-Bissessar, has called on the Jamaican business community to intensify its partnerships with businesses in other CARICOM states. Speaking at a Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) luncheon in her honour, at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston Friday July 9, Mrs. Persad-Bissessar said this was needed to ensure that CARICOM member states...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Andrew Gallimore, has said that the 500 participants in this year's Steps-to-Work summer camp programme will receive further assistance in career development. The State Minister was speaking at the launch of this year's Steps-to-Work summer camp programme, at the University of the West Indies, Mona campus, on July...

Approximately $4 million worth of emergency shelter supplies were donated Wednesday (July 7) to the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF). Speaking at the handing over ceremony at ODPEM office, Haining Road, in Kingston, the agency's Director General, Ronald Jackson, noted that the supplies will go a far way in meeting...

Residents of Hanna Town, Denham Town, Trench Town, Fletchers Land and Tivoli Gardens in West Kingston are lauding the efforts of the Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP), in helping them to get past the recent violence, which has left many of them emotionally disturbed. "I feel so good on a day like today, because I have gotten a chance...

The London-based charity Chain of Hope is working with the authorities in Jamaica and two United States-based aid organisations, to raise US$1 million to strengthen the cardiac programme at the Bustamante Hospital for Children in Kingston. The money will go towards increasing the number of intensive care unit (ICU) beds from five to 10, and the establishment of a cardiac...

Government's plan to encourage more Jamaicans to become proficient in Spanish is fast becoming a reality with the help of some 43 Cuban teachers, who have been teaching the language at primary, secondary and tertiary institutions in the island. Over the past 13 years, there have been some 238 Cuban teachers in almost every parish offering their services for a...

A business exposition, staged by Central Agricultural Supplies Company (CASCo), will be held at the Manchester Club, in Mandeville, on July 24. Co-ordinator of the event, Chevaughne Miller, told JIS News that this is an opportunity for business operators to expose some of the products and services that are available in the area. The expo is also being supported by...

From July 12 to 31, the Ministry of Education (MOE) will host a summer camp for young persons of West Kingston, who have been affected by the recent joint police/military operations in that area. This was disclosed by Assistant Chief Education Officer in the Guidance and Counselling Unit of the Ministry of Education (MOE), Fern McFarlane during an interview with...

Funding for the Government's Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH) has been significantly boosted by a US$2.49 million (J$215 million) grant from the Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF). Approximately 10,000 of Jamaica's population deemed poor, as well as the vulnerable elderly and disabled, who were not previously on the programme, will benefit from the provision, to be administered...

Southern Regional Director of the Child Development Agency (CDA), Grace Ann McFarlane, has called on students to plan their future and to develop character traits that can bring them to success. Delivering the keynote address at the graduation ceremony of Balaclava High School, St. Elizabeth on Thursday (July 1), she said that as the students closed one chapter of their...