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The Rotary Club of Mandeville has donated two stethoscopes to the Mandeville Regional Hospital, valued at US$14,000. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the hospital, Alwyn Miller, who accepted the machines at the Club's weekly meeting at the Golf View Hotel in Manchester on Wednesday (December 16), noted that its work in the parish has helped to bring comfort to many...

Three newly refurbished residences at the National Chest Hospital, Kingston, which will accommodate Cubans in the Jamaica/Cuba Eye Care Project, were handed over by Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, on Friday (December 18). The eye care professionals will be working in the new Opthalmology Centre at the St. Joseph's Hospital, Deanery Road, Kingston, which will be officially opened next...

Twenty- three graduates from Jamaica, Barbados and Montserrat, who participated in a narcotics investigation course at the Regional Drug Law Enforcement Training Centre (REDTRAC) in St. Catherine, have been warned to keep their integrity intact. "There can be no more important qualities for members of law enforcement agencies than that they are to be honest and act with integrity," Director/Principal...

As of next month, students in the agricultural sector will begin to benefit from a scholarship programme, courtesy of the Rio Tinto Alcan Inc. (formerly Alcan). The assistance is for students pursuing agricultural studies at the secondary and tertiary levels, through an agreement between Rio Tinto and the Jamaica 4-H Clubs. It is aimed at students in St. Ann, St....

President of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), Joseph M. Matalon, sees the Government's latest tax package as "necessary", in light of the impact of the global economic crisis on Jamaica. In an interview with JIS News Friday (December), Mr. Matalon, while describing the tax package as "very significant" and "perhaps one of the largest in the history of...

Retired Principal of the May Day High School in Manchester, Mr. Stanley Skeene, was on Tuesday (December 15) honoured for more than 40 years of dedicated service to the field of education. At a special banquet held in his honour at Chaddiz Chateau in Spur Tree, Manchester, Senior Advisor to the Minister of Education, Alphansus Davis, described the honouree, who...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, says the length of time that the negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has taken, has nothing to do with the competence of the negotiating team. "The fact is that the negotiating team is largely the same team that has been interacting with the IMF over many years," he said, while addressing a...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding in updating Parliament yesterday on the sale of Jamaica's national airline, Air Jamaica, said discussions with Caribbean Airlines will re-open once the exclusivity agreement with the second bidder expires. Speaking at the special sitting of Parliament yesterday (Dec 17) Mr. Golding said: "Not having been able to arrive at an agreement that we felt...

A Cold Front across the western Caribbean is expected to influence weather conditions over Jamaica starting late Sunday, the Meteorological Office in Kingston reported Friday (December 18). The Met Office said, consequently, the island is expected to experience frequent showers along with isolated thunderstorms over mainly northern parishes. Gusty winds and a near 3 degree Celsius fall in temperature are...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon Dr. Kenneth Baugh has outlined measures to combat the effects of climate change. Addressing the 15th Conference of Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, Copenhagen, Denmark, yesterday afternoon, (Thursday afternoon) the Deputy Prime Minister who headed Jamaica's delegation to the conference, implored the international community to...

The Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange, has encouraged the members of the Jamaica Association of Composers, Authors and Publishers (JACAP) to become more vigilant about the business of music in order to improve their chances of success. Addressing JACAP members, support organisations and performing artistes yesterday morning (Thursday Dec 18), at JACAP's tenth anniversary Open House...

The National Land Agency (NLA), winner of the 2008-2009 Prime Minister's Trophy for Best Customer Service, is a sterling example of the customer-centred, client-focussed orientation which the Public Sector Modernisation Programme aims to standardise in the public sector. As a high-performing executive agency, the NLA inspires confidence in what can be achieved in executive agencies specifically and more generally in...