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Former Prime Ministers, the Most Hon. PJ Patterson and the Most Hon. Edward Seaga have offered their assistance to the Government in response to the Haitian earthquake. In a letter addressed to Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding and Opposition Leader the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, the former leaders expressed support for the Government's move to offer immediate assistance...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw, has appointed a new 5-member board at Air Jamaica, consequent on the expiration of the term of the previous board. The new board will oversee the transitional arrangements and legacy issues surrounding the divestment of the airline, which is expected to be completed by the end of the week. The...

The critical objectives set out in Vision 2030 Jamaica for macro-economic stability are in keeping with strategies that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will consider in its programme for Jamaica. This is the word from Programme Director for the Plan Development Unit at the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Mrs. Leila Palmer. She said that the strict framework of the...

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) will dispatch the first batch of supplies and personnel to Haiti tonight (January 13) as Jamaica begins support for the earthquake relief process. Speaking with JIS News, Director General of the ODPEM, Ronald Jackson said that a Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Coast Guard vessel will be transporting the relief personnel and...

The National Works Agency (NWA) is advising that flood rains in the parish of St. Ann between January 9 and 11, 2010 have caused major damage to the Lime Hall main road. A section of the road embankment, between Mile Posts 43 and 45 in an area know as Clamstead, has broken away, reducing this section of the corridor to...

A literary and pictorial exhibition on earthquakes in Jamaica opened yesterday (Jan. 12) at the Hanover Parish Library in Lucea. Included are books and posters, which explain how an earthquake occurs, major quakes in Jamaica and their effects, emergency services, and the need to be prepared. The exhibition, which is open to the public, forms part of activities in the...

The Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ), in partnership with the University of the West Indies (UWI), will shortly commence a 3-year study of wind and solar to enhance the country's renewable energy options. The study is being funded to the tune of just over US$1 million, through a US$750,000 grant from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), as well as provisions...

The Jamaica Defence Force will within the next 24 hours deploy a County Class Vessel with a Company Group of soldiers comprising one hundred and fifty (150) medical, engineering, infantry and logistics personnel as part of emergency rescue and relief efforts in Haiti. Personnel from the Jamaica Constabulary Force will also be included in this contingent. The contingent will take...

The Government of Jamaica has responded quickly to the earthquake disaster in Caribbean neighbour Haiti and is mobilising relief supplies to send to that country. Contributions from the private sector as well as supplies from the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) will also be sent to Haiti today (Jan.13). Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding, in a...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding, will outline details of the Government's debt management programme in an address to the nation tonight (Jan. 13). The nationwide broadcast will be aired on all radio and television stations at 9:00 pm. The highlight of the Prime Minister's address will be the Jamaica Debt Exchange, to be launched tomorrow (Jan. 14) at the...

Approximately 200 students of Salt Marsh Primary School in Trelawny were sensitised to the dangers of earthquakes, and the necessary precautionary measures to be observed in order to mitigate their deadly effects on Tuesday morning (January 12). This was one of the activities for 'Earth Awareness Day in Schools', being observed in educational institutions by the Office of Disaster Preparedness...

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) reported Tuesday night (January 12), that it had been advised by the Earthquake Unit that a felt earthquake of magnitude M7.0 (USGS report) and a focal depth of 10km was located in the Haiti region, near Port-Au-Prince at 4:53p.m.. The earthquake was felt in several areas of Jamaica including: Liguanea, Barbican,...