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The National Land Agency (NLA) has won the Prime Minister's Trophy for the 'Best Customer Service' for 2008-2009. This was announced yesterday (May 20) at the biennial Public Sector Customer Service Awards Ceremony in Kingston. The agency also received the Manpower and Maintenance Services Award for Best Executive Agency. The public found that of all state entities, the NLA consistently...

Secretary/Manager of the St. Ann Parish Council, Clinton Gordon, is appealing to residents to come out and support Labour Day activities in the parish. "The world runs on volunteerism. We cannot afford to pay for everything so let us volunteer and work on the various projects in our area," Mr. Gordon encouraged. More than 40 projects have been registered for...

Chairman of the Jamaica Association of Full Gospel Churches, Bishop Rohan Edwards, has said that since the implementation of the Government's free health care policy, the number of persons seeking financial assistance from the church for medical care has declined. In an interview with JIS News, Bishop Edwards said that the free health care policy has helped "because some people,...

Prime Minster the Hon. Bruce Golding has urged heads of civil service entities that they need to institutionalise best practices in their organisations as the public is not accepting lack of resources as an acceptable excuse for bad service. He was speaking on May 20 at the 2008-2009 Public Sector Customer Service Awards Ceremony in Kingston. Accepting that in most...

Water and sewage treatment facilities in Port Antonio, Portland, and May Pen, Clarendon, are to be upgraded at a cost of over $1.5 billion, Water and Housing Minister, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang has disclosed. Speaking at Wednesday's (May 20) Post Cabinet media briefing at Jamaica House, Dr. Chang said that stage one of the Port Antonio water and sewage upgrading...

Refurbishing work on a building situated next to the site of the tissue culture ginger project in Top Alston, Clarendon, one of the four projects selected by the National Labour Day Planning Committee for special focus, is almost complete. Speaking at a JIS 'Think Tank' today (May 20), Chairman of the National Labour Day Planning Committee, Dorothea Clarke, said that...

Minister with Responsibility for Information and Telecommunications, Hon. Daryl Vaz, has said that the Government will seek to prevent a repeat of the controversial incident in which a private aircraft with several passengers, including former Prime Minister the Most Hon. P.J. Patterson, was searched on arrival from Cuba on Thursday night (May 14). The aircraft landed at the Norman Manley...

Labour Day activities this year will include a ginger resuscitation project in Butlers Run, in the Top Alston area of Clarendon. "Small farmers in and around the area will benefit from practical demonstrations on pest eradication, as well as greenhouse and open field planting methodologies, by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, RADA and the Scientific Research Council," said project...

A US$2.65 million (approximately J$230 million) grant contract has been signed between the Government of Jamaica and the Embassy of Japan, to reduce the incidence of crime and violence in high-risk and vulnerable inner city communities. The money was provided as part of the embassy's programme, the Japan Social Development Fund Grant which, among other things, supports initiatives for developing...

The Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) has clarified its decision to introduce a $5,000 note, bearing the image of the late former Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Hugh Lawson Shearer, in September. Responding to questions from journalists at the BoJ's quarterly press briefing, today (May 20) BoJ Governor, Derick Latibeaudiere, said the introduction of the $5,000 note is in keeping with...

Governor of the Bank of Jamaica (BoJ), Derick Latibeaudiere, has said that the bank continued to pursue a tight monetary policy stance in the last quarter of the financial year, in order to maintain stability in the market. Speaking at the BoJ's quarterly press briefing, on May 20, Mr. Latibeaudiere said during the March quarter, the bank acted swiftly to...

The House of Representatives approved a Government guarantee for a loan of Euro 204.4 million from the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) to the National Road Operating and Construction Company Limited (NROCC) on Tuesday May 19. Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw, who moved the resolution, explained that the guarantee had become necessary because of the...