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Jamaicans will continue to benefit from trucked water under the Rapid Response Programme, until September, when a new regime is put in place. The Ministry of Water and Housing, has taken the decision to divest the operations of the programme to employees in a share ownership programme, Minister, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang said on July 2, at his post-Sectoral Debate...

Prime Minster the Hon. Bruce Golding has repeated his warning that people should not capture land, breach planning guidelines and believe that Government will support them. His remarks were made at the Town Hall Meeting held recently in Montego Bay, when he was responding to a plea from craft vendors in Lilliput, St. James, who had asked for help to...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding, on July 2, heaped praises on former Prime Minister, the Most Hon. P. J. Patterson, after he was conferred with the Order of the Caribbean Community (OCC). This took place at the opening ceremony of the 30th regular meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of Caricom in Georgetown, Guyana. In congratulating Mr....

Approximately 5,300 secondary and tertiary level students will be employed this year under the National Youth Service's (NYS) Summer Employment Programme, at a cost of some $58 million. The young people will be placed in public and private entities for three weeks during the months of July and August. Executive Director of the NYS, Rev. Adinhair Jones, addressing the launch...

The development plan for the city of Montego Bay in St. James, has been completed, while plans for the upgrading of the other resort areas of the island are in progress. More than $200 million has been spent from the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) on the resort development plan, which aims to upgrade and improve the major resort towns, which,...

Energy and Mining Minister, Hon. James Robertson, has said that a revamped draft National Energy Policy (NEP) is to be submitted to Cabinet. Making his contribution to the 2009/10 Sectoral Debate at Gordon House on July 1, the Minister said that aspects of the Policy, which the country has been developing for the past five years, have changed including important...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, has said that airlift security strategies, adopted by Jamaica to increase arrivals from existing and emerging markets, are yielding good results. Speaking at the weekly Post Cabinet Press Briefing at Jamaica House on Wednesday (July 1), Mr. Bartlett said that for the Fall period, Air Jamaica sold some 3,000 seats within the first two...

The Squatter Management Unit in the Ministry of Water and Housing is being strengthened, portfolio Minister, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, has announced. In his Sectoral Debate presentation on July 1, in the House of Representatives, Dr. Chang said the Unit is being restructured, pointing out that this will incorporate an increase in the current staff complement of three. The restructuring,...

A sum of $1 billion has been earmarked under the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF), for the development of infrastructure in the tourism resort areas, particularly relating to housing and settlement. Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, made the announcement at yesterday's (July 1) post Cabinet press briefing held at Jamaica House, where he informed of a number of tourism development...

The Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw, today (July 2) called for an urgent increase in capital for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which he said, "is an issue that cannot be allowed to drag on any longer by indecision and procrastination." Speaking at a special meeting of the Board of Governors of the IDB in...

Jamaica's membership in the London-based Middle East Association (MEA) has been warmly welcomed by the Director General, Michael Thomas, who feels that the country has a great deal to offer investors from the Middle East, especially the Gulf States. In an interview with JIS News, Mr. Thomas said the MEA is keen to link Jamaica with the Gulf countries, which...

A former ward of the Armadale Juvenile Centre in St. Ann, is making an appeal to the parents of children in juvenile facilities to take a more active role in the rehabilitation of their children. Cassandra, who overcame a troubled past to become a teacher, wants the Department of Correctional Services to reach out to these parents and encourage them...