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Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. Dr. Kenneth Baugh, has declared the Ministerial Meeting of Latin America and the Caribbean on Integration and Development (CALC), and the 28th Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Rio group, a total success. He says the deliberations should lead to greater levels of economic co-operation and better integration in the region. The...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Dr. Christopher Tufton is forecasting a brighter outlook for the sugar industry, given the slew of changes that are taking place in the sector. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 72nd Annual Conference of the Jamaica Association of Sugar Technologists (JAST) at the Jamaica Grande Hotel in Ocho Rios St. Ann on Thursday,...

The Jamaica Information Service (JIS) today (Nov. 8) dedicated its Corporate and Operating Plans for 2009 to 2012, during a service at the Bethel United Church of Jesus Christ (Apostolic) in Kingston. In a message read by JIS Advisory Board Chairman, Mr. Neville James, Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects in the Office of the Prime Minister,...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Dr. Christopher Tufton says the Ministry intends to introduce locally- produced natural juices as part of the thrust to intensify the 'Eat What You Grow, Grow what You Eat' campaign. This he says is in order to create better, and more aggressive awareness of the need for Jamaicans to support local farming, and production....

Minister of Agriculture, Hon. Dr. Christopher Tufton is urging farmers and food producers to price their goods fairly in order to ensure their own viability in the marketplace. Dr. Tufton made the call while addressing a 'Farmers Forum' organised by the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) at the Browns Town Anglican Church Hall in St. Ann, on Thursday (Nov. 5)...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, has said that collaboration between Caribbean and Latin American countries, or joint action in strategic areas, is not enough to achieve integration. Mr. Golding said that significant achievements toward integration and collaboration have already been made among various sub-groups of Latin America and the Caribbean. However, there is need for broader, sturdier co-operation to...

With approximately 150,000 persons in Jamaica reportedly living with diabetes, and projections for further increase in incidence of the disease, Medical Officer of Health (MOH) for St. Catherine, Dr. Sandra Knight, is imploring Jamaicans to pursue healthy lifestyle changes to prevent or, effectively, manage the disease. Speaking at a JIS Think Tank on Thursday (November 5), to highlight the activities...

Manager of Research, Development and Portfolio Management at Pan Caribbean Bank, Merrick Plummer, has said that Jamaica's efforts to respond to the current recession with stimulus packages have been stifled by the lack of cash resources. Mr. Plummer said that many persons have responded to the economic crisis by withholding their money, and with the life blood of the financial...

The Ministry of Education is looking to build at least two more Mico Child Assessment and Research in Education (CARE) centres during the next financial year as part of the process to achieve full literacy at the primary level by 2015. Portfolio Minister, Andrew Holness, who was addressing the official opening of the St. Ann Mico CARE Centre in St....

The Ministry of Health's tuberculosis (TB) strategic plan is in an advanced stage of development and is expected to be completed by December 2009. Director of Health Promotion and Protection in the Ministry, Dr. Eva Lewis Fuller, explained that the plan "seeks to give focus on the situation regarding TB in Jamaica and it is extended to the various sectors...

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of National Security, Major Richard Reese, has suggested that beneficiaries of the Ministry's Community Security Initiative (CSI) programme consider pooling their resources together and establishing enterprises, once they have completed the programme. Speaking with beneficiaries of the Ministry's social intervention programme, in the St. Catherine community of March Pen Road, at the Mona Baptist Church...

The channels for youth advocacy, discussion and mainstreaming at the highest level on issues impacting them, have been further enhanced with the establishment of the National Youth Parliamentary Committee Watch (NYPW). An affiliate of the National Centre for Youth Development (NYCD), in the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture, the NYPW was established out of a recommendation by members of...