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The National Works Agency (NWA), is advising motorists that the Junction main road, in the vicinity of Friendship Gap, St. Mary, will be closed on Sunday May 24, between the hours of 5:00 am and 12 noon, to facilitate the laying of culvert pipes. Making this disclosure to the JIS during an interview on Friday May 22, Senior Communications Officer...

Cabinet has received reports on Jamaica's participation in the Annual Meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the 24th Meeting of the Board of the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), from the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service. This announcement was made by Minister with responsibility for Information and Telecommunications, Hon. Daryl Vaz, during the Post Cabinet weekly media...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding has given instructions to hastily relocate the inmates of the Armadale Juvenile Correctional Centre in Alexandra, St Ann, following last night's (May 20) fire in which five girls were killed and thirteen others injured. The girls will be removed to the Stony Hill HEART Academy and buses are now being sent to Armadale to...

Cabinet has approved the sale of lands at Bernard Lodge in St. Catherine to the Heart Institute of the Caribbean for $60 million. Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, with responsibility for Information and Telecommunications, Hon. Daryl Vaz, made the announcement at the weekly post-Cabinet media briefing held earlier this week at Jamaica House. He said...

The Ministry of Education is developing a diagnostic tool to asses the reading level of students up to grade nine, as part of a strategic plan on literacy. The tool should be available to teachers in time for the start of the new school year in September, said National Literacy Co-ordinator at the Ministry, Laurel Brent-Harris. "We are in the...

The Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) and the University of Technology (UTech), will be 'sprucing up' the Papine Park in St. Andrew, as part of activities for Labour Day, May 25. Project Co-ordinator, Marline Stephenson Dalley, told JIS News that the scope of work will include the cleaning up and painting of the walls, benches, sanitary conveniences; pruning of trees;...

Cabinet has approved the tabling of Amendments to the Labour Relations and Industrial Disputes (Amendment) Act 2009. Speaking at the weekly post-Cabinet media briefing at Jamaica House on May 20, Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), with responsibility for Information and Telecommunications, Daryl Vaz, said that the amendments will facilitate a number of issues. These...

Professionals in the energy sector are now better equipped to forecast future energy needs following a two-week training course organised by the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). A total of 15 professionals from the Ministry of Mining and Energy, the PIOJ, Petrojam, Jamaica Public Service Company, Ministry of Transport and Works, Jamaica Bauxite...

A total of 65 projects have so far been registered with the St. Mary Labour Day Committee, as preparations for Labour Day in the parish get into high gear. Parish Manager for the Social Development Commission (SDC), in St. Mary, Janet Rose-Bryan, said the projects include road repairs, the cleaning-up of communities, the refurbishing of Government buildings, the painting of...

Government's commitment to the development of a better tax compliant system has been reinforced with the establishment of the Large Taxpayer Office (LTO). The LTO is part of a long-term economic framework of tax reform and auditing capabilities. The Office caters exclusively to the key three per cent of the country's taxpayers who are responsible for paying some 80 per...

With a surge in the number of reports being made to the Office of the Children's Registry, the agency is moving to increase its efficiency in tracking data related to child abuse, by introducing a case management system and engaging the services of statisticians. Registrar at the Office of the Children's Advocate, Carla Edie, in an interview with JIS News...

State Minister with Responsibility for Local Government Reform in the Office of the Prime Minister, Robert Montague, has said that Jamaica will benefit significantly from its participation in the Fifth Commonwealth Local Government Conference, held in the Bahamas last week. Speaking at a press conference at the Department of Local Government on Hagley Park Road in Kingston on Thursday (May...