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Prime Minister, Hon. Bruce Golding, says that cyber crime has become a serious problem in Jamaica, which has to be addressed. "We are particularly familiar with the lotto scam in Montego Bay. It is not just the crime and the fraud that is committed, it is the murder to which it gives rise," Mr. Golding stated as he piloted the...

A Condolence Book has been opened at the Jamaican Consulate General in Toronto for the late Vice Chancellor Emeritus at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Professor Rex Nettleford, who died on February 2. Jamaica's Consul General to Toronto, Mr. George Ramocan, is inviting all Jamaicans living in Toronto and surrounding areas to visit the Consulate and pay their...

There are plans to declare the town of Falmouth, in Trelawny, an Urban Development Corporation (UDC) designated area, which should lead to a co-ordinated development of that town in the future. Consultations have started between the UDC and the Trelawny Parish Council, with a view to having that local authority coming to some agreement with the UDC about the development...

As part of relief efforts for earthquake-ravaged Haiti, members from the 4-H Club of the St. Martin De Porres Primary School in Gordon Town, St. Andrew, today (February 11), handed over non-perishable food items and clothing to the Salvation Army. Speaking to JIS News following a brief handing-over ceremony at the Salvation Army's Territorial headquarters in Kingston, Public Relations Officer...

Wife of the Governor-General, Her Excellency the Most Hon. Lady Allen, has called on women in leadership to pave the way for others, by mentoring other women, so that they too can break through their own glass ceilings. Lady Allen was guest speaker at the opening of the Women In Leadership Conference of the Inter-American Division of Seventh-Day Adventists (SDA),...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in placing focus on the Clarendon plains as it seeks to develop a policy to identify and put the country's most arable lands into production. Portfolio Minister, Hon. Dr. Christopher Tufton, first revealed details of the agricultural land use policy last October. Chief Executive Officer of the National Irrigation Commission, Stanley Rampair, speaking at...

A total of 85 community-based Production and Marketing Organisations (PMOs) have been registered by the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), which will enable them to access funding and other support to benefit their members. Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. J.C. Hutchinson, on Wednesday (February 10) presented RADA certificates of registration to 50 groups in...

Despite record-breaking snowstorm, which hit the mid-Atlantic region on the weekend, Jamaicans in Washington DC, Baltimore and Virginia, as well as members of the art community in these areas, turned out in numbers on Monday (Feb. 8) to bid farewell to one of Jamaica's foremost artists, Albert Huie, OD, CD. Jamaica's Ambassador to the United States (US), Anthony Johnson, who...

The Government will be allocating $27 billion in the 2010/2011 Budget to cover the cost of the administration's exiting responsibilities for Air Jamaica. "We are hopeful that before we get to the new financial year, we would have secured an arrangement for the privatisation, if not, the arrangements for its closure would be triggered by April 1, 2010," Prime Minister,...

A Condolence Book for the late Vice Chancellor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor Rex Nettleford O.M., will be opened at the Jamaican High Commission, in London, on Tuesday, February 16. Professor Nettleford, who also founded the National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC), died on February 2 at the George Washington Hospital in Washington D.C., in the...

The Hope Bay police in Portland will soon be operating from new premises as a result of an agreement between the Ministries of Education and National Security. A cottage adjoining the Hope Bay All-age school, which previously housed teaching staff, has been refurbished at a cost of approximately $10 million to accommodate the police station. The three-bedroom, two-bath cottage was...

As Haiti moves to regain normalcy, following the massive earthquake that shook the country on January 12, the Salvation Army is now focusing its efforts on providing prepared meals for its citizens. In an interview with JIS News, today (February 11), the Salvation Army's Chief Secretary for the Caribbean territory, Colonel Lindsay Rowe, said that the organisation has already distributed...