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Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, has lauded Mandeville business couple Calvin and Sylvia Lyn, for investing in the Hargreaves Memorial Hospital, which will continue to operate and provide quality health care service to the people of Manchester. "It is a tremendous opportunity to improve the quality of life in Mandeville, and the parish of Manchester," the Prime Minister said...

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) has said that its current application for fares increase only concerns the operation of its regular bus service, and won't affect its specialty services such as Express buses. In a release Monday afternoon, the JUTC also noted that public consultations on the application are scheduled to start this week at Arian's Restaurant, Twickenham Park,...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, the Hon. Audley Shaw, on Monday (August 31) confirmed that Jamaica received an allocation of 74% of its quota of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last Friday. The Minister said that with the allocation, the Net International Reserves (NIR) of the Bank of Jamaica have increased to over...

Twenty-two year old, Northern Caribbean University (NCU) student, Sheldon Owen, is one of the many young Jamaicans who have participated in and benefited from the National Youth Service's (NYS) corps programmes. This is a four-week training and re-socialisation programme which affords youths, between 17 and 24, much valuable work experience, through placements in private or public sector entities partnering with...

About 346 students drawn from 11 inner city communities in Montego Bay were presented with back-to-school gift packages Monday (August 31) by the St. James Peace Management Initiative (PMI). The students who were enrolled at primary, all-age, junior high and high schools within the parish, each received a school bag with books and other school supplies for them to start...

Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, has ordered that an audit be done and an investigation be undertaken, immediately, into the approval process for session and on call payments for medical groups in the public health sector. The Minister met with representatives of the medical groups on Friday (August 28), and informed them that there may be some irregularities, as...

The Ministry of Health is advising persons to remain vigilant and continue to take the recommended precautions to protect against the spread of Influenza A(H1N1). The World Health Organisation (WHO) has cautioned that persons should continue to take the necessary care, as there may be a second wave of the disease, which would see an increase in the number of...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has warmly welcomed the opening of the Hydel University. He congratulated its President, Senator Hyacinth Bennett, for her vision and hard work; and described the development as the result of a policy of liberalization in education. Speaking at the opening of the university at its premises at Ferry on August 30, Mr. Golding said, "Education is...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding believes that the strength of the faculty at the newly-launched Hydel University will ensure its success. Speaking at the opening of the institution at Ferry, St Catherine on August 30, he told the audience: "With the superb quality of the teaching staff that she has put together, I have every confidence that this university will offer...

Executive Vice President for Alcoa's Global Primary Products (GPP), Bernt Reitan, has expressed confidence in the way that Jamalco has handled its mining operation in Jamaica. "Global Primary Products has had challenges, we have however fared far better than most, because we have never lost our business fundamentals," Mr. Reitan told stakeholders at the official commissioning of the new Conveyor...

The Hanbury Home for Children in Manchester has received an upgraded library, with computers and other educational items, from the Davis Projects for Peace, a United States-based foundation. The updated $900,000 (US$10,000) facility was made possible through a recommendation made by Jamaican born academic at Howard University, Dr. Grace Virtue. She encouraged two of her students to seek funding from...

Guidance counselling programmes in several high schools are to be significantly enhanced with the introduction of a Students' Motivational Manual, this month (September), at the start of the new school term. The manual, which seeks to advance the agenda of positive attitudes and values, has the key objectives to stimulate self-confidence and positive mental attitude; encourage better acceptance of self...