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Minister of State with responsibility for Local Government, Hon. Robert Montague, has said that the Department is contemplating legal action, under the Maintenance Act, against Jamaicans, who abandon their elderly parents in state care. "You have some children out there, lawyers, doctors, teachers, who have abandoned their elderly relatives and leave them to the state and we need to deal...

Jamaican-born Margarett Best has always been a fighter. When she was only 11 years old, her mother, May Gwendolyn, died. Two years later she left her home in May Pen, Clarendon along with her oldest sister, Clare, who had cared for her since her mom's death, to join an older sister, Ferlena, and her great uncle, Ivan Orr, in Detroit,...

Students from several high schools in St. Mary participated in a St. Mary Youth Council meeting, organised by the St. Mary Parish Council on Thursday, November 19. The event, which was held as a part of activities to observe Local Government Month (November) in the parish, was convened as a mock version of the monthly meeting of the St. Mary...

Senior citizens who are having difficulties taking care of themselves are being urged to sign up with the Programme for Advancement through Health and Education (PATH), so that assistance can be provided. The call was made by Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Pearnel Charles, at the National Council for Senior Citizens (NCSC) Conference on aging, held today (November...

President of the United Republic of Tanzania, His Excellency Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, says he is impressed with Jamaica's agricultural research, and wants closer co-operation between both countries in that area. "There is need for exchanging information and exchanging experience, and to use that experience for the benefit of our two peoples and two countries. I am impressed with the work...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw, announced today (November 24), that he is currently preparing a Cabinet submission, which would outline reforms to the administrative structure of the tax system. This, he explained, would seek to address key issues such as the separation of the process of domestic and international taxation, and positioning Ministries departments and...

The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is working on an Information Communication Technology (ICT) competency standard for teachers, which will provide guidelines to facilitate the effective use of ICT by both teachers and students. UNESCO Advisor for Communication and Information, Mr. Isidro Fernandez Abali, speaking yesterday (Nov. 23) at the opening of the fourth biennial International Conference...

The National HIV/STI Programme has unveiled its new HIV anti-stigma campaign, with two HIV-positive Jamaicans coming forward to reveal their HIV status and to participate in the national effort, which aims to end the discrimination associated with the disease. Jason Richards and Mrs. Rosemarie Stone were today (November 24) presented as the new faces of the 'Yes You Can' anti-stigma...

The Government is steadfast in its thrust to develop the local biofuels industry, producing ethanol from local feedstock and boosting exports of this highly valued fuel, under the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI). Minister of Energy and Mining, Hon. James Robertson, says that it is toward this end that Jamaica last year accepted an invitation to join the Memorandum of Understanding...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding says that the Government will outline the terms of its projected US$1.2 billion standby facility with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Parliament shortly. "We will very shortly be outlining in Parliament the terms of the IMF agreement, the details of the economic programme to be pursued and targets to be met, the policy...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding has assured Jamaica's creditors that the country will not compromise its record of repaying its debts. "Jamaica has had an unblemished record of repaying its debts. I want to affirm, today, that we have no intention of allowing that valuable reputation to be compromised," Mr. Golding told Sunday's annual conference of his governing Jamaica...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding has listed the current gaza/gully conflict among the negative influences destroying Jamaicans' self-confidence. "We as a society must unite around some basic principles, some agreement as to what is right and wrong, good and bad; what will uplift and what will destroy. The gully/gaza conflict is just one example of the negative influences that...