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All unregistered early childhood institutions are being advised to sign up with the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) to benefit from existing development programmes and initiatives. "The ECC is imploring all institutions that cater to children 0-8 years old to come in and register," said Communications Manager, Marsha Grant. "We know that it takes some time to get all your documents...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding says government's macro economic programme requires a freeze on the public sector wage bill. "The amount of wages is not something that we can go around having discussions and negotiations about. The Government has to determine in its macro economic programme what is possible for wages." Prime Minister Golding said that the wage bill has been...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has publicly addressed the issue of the group of pilots who have expressed an interest to own and operate Air Jamaica. "Any entity that is proposing to take on Air Jamaica by debt financing, borrowing money, I would advise them sincerely, don't go there. If you are not able to get in on the basis of...

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Karl Samuda, has announced that the Government's efforts to divest its factory spaces has so far resulted in the sale of $43 million worth of property. Mr. Samuda told the House of Representatives yesterday (January 26), that the Factories Corporation of Jamaica was intended to be a developer of facilities, which would then...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding restated the intention to sell assets that the Government is unable to maintain. He was making his contribution to the debate on the medium term economic programme in Parliament on January 26. "We have to get our house back in order...we are faced with a situation where we have to take tough decisions, some of those...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has asked the diplomatic community for the support of their countries and organizations as he leads economic reform in the country. The Prime Minister said, "We are going to need your help and support in so many different areas: in areas of technical co-operation, in areas of investment promotion.. Create new streams of investment activity and...

High Commissioners and Ambassadors accredited to Jamaica, including those based overseas, will be arriving in the island for the annual Diplomatic Week which begins on Sunday at 9 A.M., 24th January with a church service at the University of the West Indies Chapel, Mona. Organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, the week which is in its...

CARICOM stands ready to do all in its power to assist Haiti and play a prominent role in its reconstruction, the community's representative to Tuesday's Ministerial Preparatory Conference in Montreal, Canada, former Prime Minister, the Most Hon. P. J. Patterson, said. "As small economies, our resources may be limited, but not our willingness to assist," Mr. Patterson told the one-day...

President of the Caribbean Institute of Nephrology, Professor Edward Barton, has said that the 2nd Annual Conference on Nephrology and Hypertension, at the Rose Hall Resort and Spa in Montego Bay St. James, (January 25- 27), must emphasise the significance of preventing diseases in emerging states. "There is always a terrible socio-economic impact of diseases on countries, therefore, we must...

Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Health for Jamaica, Dr. Sheila Campbell-Forrester, has said that with chronic non-communicable diseases being major contributors to morbidity and mortality in Jamaica, the incidence of renal disease must be reduced at all cost. "With complications from hypertension and diabetes leading to end stage chronic renal failure , we must begin to consider how best to...

A total of $8.3 million has already been disbursed to some 32 farmers in St. Ann to carry on crop production, under the Financial Access to Responsible Members (FARM) programme. Manager for the St. Ann Branch of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), Pedro Worghs, told JIS News that since the launch of the FARM Programme in the parish, a...

Jamaica's request for a 27-month Standby Arrangement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will go to the Executive Board of the Fund next week Wednesday, February third. This was disclosed by Minister of Finance and the Public Service Hon. Audley Shaw, as he closed the debate on the Government's economic programme, which will be supported by the US$1.25 billion loan,...