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The political power of Jamaican nationals in Canada will be assessed at the upcoming 'Summit of Jamaicans', organised by the Jamaican Diaspora Canada Foundation (JDCF). The event, which is in celebration of Diaspora Day 2009, will take place on Saturday, June 13, at the Jamaican Canadian Centre, 995 Arrow Road in Toronto, under the distinguished patronage of Jamaica's High Commissioner...

Cabinet, will on June 22, receive a submission from the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Article IV review mission to the island last week. Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, told the House of Representatives yesterday (June 9), that the Government used the occasion of the visit, to discuss with the IMF...

The House of Representatives, yesterday (June 9), approved a Government guarantee for loans valued at US$101.8 million to Air Jamaica Limited, in support of the funding requirements for its approved business plan for the financial year 2009/10. According to a Ministry Paper tabled by Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw, Air Jamaica is now operating under...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Dr. Christopher Tufton, has announced that workers employed by the five Government-owned sugar factories will receive redundancy payments starting Tuesday (June 16). Dr. Tufton made the announcement at a meeting this morning with representatives of the trade unions representing employees of the Sugar Company of Jamaica(SCJ), which operates the five factories -Bernard Lodge (St....

The United Kingdom (UK) Jamaican community has paid tribute to the late Travis Johnson, a former Jamaica Diaspora UK Advisory Board member, who died at home in Jamaica on June 8. Mr. Johnson, who was a founding member of the Jamaica Society Leeds, served as one of the two UK representatives on the Jamaica Diaspora Advisory Board for four years....

Despite the current economic crisis worldwide, the number of Canadian visitors to Jamaica has been increasing and this has enabled the country to be one of only three markets in the Caribbean to record growth in visitor arrivals in 2009. Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, addressing travel writers in Toronto, Canada, recently, said for the first three months of...

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is introducing the workflow Applications Management and Data Automation (AMANDA) system, to improve speed and efficiency in processing development applications. Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Peter Knight, told journalists at a media briefing at NEPA's offices in Kingston on Tuesday (June 9), that AMANDA will facilitate timely tracking and management of all development...

The Task Force on Child Abuse Prevention (TFCAP) will host an Information Fair and Mini Exhibition at the Port Maria Primary School, St. Mary, tomorrow(June 10), beginning at 8:30 a.m. under the theme, "Preserve the Environment, Protect Our Children." The day's activities will feature presentations relating to four of the environments in which a child operates: school, community, home and...

Minister of National Security, Senator the Hon. Dwight Nelson, has endorsed Community Corrections as a strategy to contain overcrowding in the penal facilities and reduce costs. "It is currently costing taxpayers approximately US$9,672(J$860,852) annually to maintain an inmate in custodial care," the Minister said in an address read by Permanent Secretary, Major Richard Reese, at the opening ceremony for the...

Minister of Energy and Mining, Hon. James Robertson, will depart the island Wednesday (June 10) for a Meeting of Energy Ministers from the PetroCaribe member states in St. Kitts. The meeting takes place Thursday (June 11), and the Ministers are expected to discuss matters of common interest and, in particular, areas of co-operation. The Ministerial meeting will serve as a...

Plans for the relocation of the Jamaica Fire Brigade's (JFB) administrative headquarters from downtown Kingston to Half Way Tree next month have been changed, disclosed State Minister with Responsibility for Local Government in the Office of the Prime Minister, Hon. Robert Montague. The JFB's central operations are, instead, expected to move into unoccupied offices at the Central Sorting Office (CSO)...

Chief Medical Officer in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Sheila Campbell-Forrester, has said that the Ministry is placing increased focus on pre-adolescent and adolescent health, to ensure that the country's youth are healthy and are able to achieve their full potential. "Life is a continuum and our childhood experiences impact on adolescence and carry through into adulthood," she stated as...