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The Ministry of Labour and Social Security is advising members of the public that the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is a viable and sustainable social security programme, capable of delivering meaningful benefits to contributors on their retirement. In recent years, there has been a shortfall between payout in NIS benefits and collection from contributions. This is due primarily to the...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Energy and Mining, Hon. Laurence Broderick, has said that the Government is committed to ensuring that the country has a consistent, efficient and affordable supply of energy, to boost productivity. The State Minister was speaking recently, at a function hosted by the Clarendon-based bauxite-producing company, Jamalco, to honour local contractors who contributed to...

Work has commenced on the assembly and installation of the first shipment of flexible pipelines, which the state refinery, Petrojam, has procured to facilitate the off-loading and on-loading of petroleum products between their plant and the docking facility in Kingston. Petrojam moved to procure the pipes after the refinery's loading dock sustained damage during an accident involving the oil tanker,...

A competition, to come up with a winning design, which will become the model for future school construction, will be launched by the Education Ministry later this year. Portfolio Minister, Hon. Andrew Holness, made the announcement at the dual launch of the Child Friendly School sensitisation programme, and a public education campaign to promote Alternative Methods of Discipline in Schools,...

Efforts to secure sustained interventions in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Latin American and the Caribbean have been bolstered with Governments agreeing to intensify, widen co-operation and develop greater capacity in tackling the pandemic. This was the word from Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, at a media briefing at the Ritz Carlton Resort and Spa in Montego Bay St....

Southwark Council, in South London, United Kingdon (UK), has voted veteran Jamaican-born community campaigner and the borough's first black Mayor, Sam King, among 10 persons and institutions to be honoured with a commemorative Blue Plaque. Mr. King was born in Portland, in 1926, and first lived in England when he volunteered to join the Royal Air Force during World War...

Buckingham Palace has formally announced, that The Queen, has approved the submission for His Excellency the Most Honourable Dr. Patrick Linton Allen, ON, CD, Governor-General of Jamaica, to be Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (GCMG). He will be knighted on June 12, 2009. Consequently, the Governor-General shall be styled "His Excellency...

Four students of Jamaican heritage attending universities in the United States are the recipients of this year's Claude McKay Book Scholarship Awards. They are Shalonda Dale of Towson University in Maryland; Brandon Williams, Brown's College in Minnesota; Jerome Blake, Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland; and Kimberly Murray of Lincoln University, in Pennsylvania. The awards were presented on June 6,...

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Energy and Mining Marcia Forbes, has said that she fully expects the National Energy Policy to be completed by the end of June, 2009. The Permanent Secretary made the statement at last week's opening of the Green Expo 2009 at the National Arena in Kingston. "We are working assiduously on the National Energy Policy...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding has expressed satisfaction with the work of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA). He described it as "hugely successful" and congratulated the management and staff as they celebrated at the NSWMA Recognising Excellence and Staff Awards Function on June 5, at the Courtleigh Auditorium in Kingston. Mr. Golding said, "I am impressed by...

The Executive Director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) Joan Gordon-Webley, has said that the agency is committed to improving National Heroes Park as a place of national pride and safe relaxation for all. "Heroes Park is coming under some special treatment. Very soon I am going to invite all the Ministries in and around National Heroes Park...

The Executive Director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), Joan Gordon-Webley, announced that a multi agency guide for the management of the nation's eight landfills was now completed and available for the Prime Minister and Cabinet to review. She announced this during the NSWMA Recognising Excellence and Staff Awards Function on June 5 in Kingston. Mrs Gordon-Webley told...