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The Trelawny Health Department is undertaking a public education programme to sensitise residents about the importance of safe food handling, including treating drinking water, to prevent disease outbreak. The programme, dubbed: 'Environmental health and diarrheal diseases', is being carried out across the parish, with emphasis on schools. Chief Public Health Inspector for Trelawny, Elsa Sommerville, took the campaign to the...

Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, has said that it will cost an estimated $58 million to restore two police stations, which were extensively damaged during the civil unrest in sections of West Kingston late last month. "One (is) $8 million in terms of the repairs and the other is for $50 million, which...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding said that repair work on the Coronation Market will start on Monday and vendors who lost stock as a result of the recent security operations in the city will receive assistance. Mr. Golding gave this assurance after walking through sections of the Kingston market district this morning (June 10). At the end of the tour that...

Jamaica is set to sign at least seven new open skies agreements with as many countries, at the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Conference for Air Service Negotiations (ICAN), scheduled for June 27 to July 2 in Montego Bay, St. James. It is also expected that the country will open the door for another 20 or more contracts, at the...

Member of Parliament for Eastern St. Andrew, Dr. St. Aubyn Bartlett, has urged Opposition members of the House to work with the Government, in order to pass the six anti-crime Bills currently before Parliament, aimed at stamping out crime and violence in the society. Addressing the House of Representatives on June 9 in the debate on the Bills, Dr. Bartlett...

The second stop on the Jamaican leg of the Caribbean Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Road Show was held at the St. James Parish Library, Montego Bay, on Wednesday (June 9). Students representing primary, secondary and high schools in western Jamaica participated in the activities, under the theme "Harnessing the power of innovation - the engine for ICT enabled Caribbean...

Portland Jerk Festival 2010 was officially launched at the Folly Oval, Port Antonio on Tuesday (June 8). The event, which will be held on Sunday (July 4), will feature over 25 authentic jerk vendors from Portland and other areas offering jerked pork, chicken, lobster, shrimp, goat, beef and conch, and other jerked meats at reasonable prices. Entertainment will feature a...

Cabinet has approved the award of a $205 million contract by the National Housing Trust (NHT) to Alcar Construction and Haulage Company, to undertake infrastructure works at Providence Housing Development Phase II, Ironshore, St. James. The announcement was made by Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, at the weekly post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica...

Head Girl at Merl Grove High School, in St. Andrew, Annestta Samuels, has implored Jamaican Canadians to invest in the education of young people. "It is my view that some teenagers are de-motivated by the lack of support, financial or otherwise, that they receive. The potential of numerous students are stifled by the fact that there is not enough money...

Students from schools in the parishes of St. Ann and St. Mary showcased their talents, while sensitising persons about disasters, at the Disaster Preparedness Day for Schools Cultural Exchange held on Friday (June 4) at the St. Mary Parish Church Hall in Port Maria. The event, organised by the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), was part of...

The House of Representatives on Tuesday (June 8) continued debating the six Anti-Crime Bills, which the Government wants to support the efforts of the security forces to reduce crime and violence in the country. The Bills are: an Act to amend the Bail Act; an Act to further amend the Firearms Act; an Act to amend the Offences Against the...

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Karl Samuda, has urged local laboratories to become accredited in order to meet international standards. He expressed concern that only one of the more than 80 laboratories in the country has so far been accredited to internal standard. "I am concerned because...we have 83 labs in the country and none of them are...