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A total of 1,241 projects were approved for funding in the financial year 2008/09, under the Constituency Development Fund (CDF). Director of the CDF Programme Management Unit, Moveta Munroe, tells JIS News that from the total allocation of $2.4 billion, 58 per cent of the amount was spent on physical infrastructure, including road repairs, water systems, community centres, and the...

Executive Director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), Joan Gordon Webley, stating that solid waste is "big business", has informed that the agency will be implementing projects from which it hopes to make money to meet its operating costs, while benefitting the country at the same time. These include a waste to energy project in partnership with another...

The cleaning and beautification of the Trelawny Parish Council building in Falmouth is the Labour Day parish project for Trelawny. The work will incorporate clean-up of the cenotaph and fountain in the town square. Chairman of the Civic and Community Relations Sub-Committee, Councillor Fernandez Smith, speaking at a meeting held at the Parish Council yesterday (May 13), informed that the...

Jamaica is reaping huge dividends from the investment of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in the education sector, which amounts to about US$30 million over the last 12 years. The input of the agency is primarily underpinned by three projects - the New Horizons, Expanding Educational Horizons (EEH), and Caribbean Centre for Excellence in Teacher Training. Director...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Hon. Dr. Kenneth Baugh is in Guyana attending the 27th Meeting CARICOM's Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) which begins today (Thursday) and ends tomorrow. The agenda items for consideration include: Implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME); External Economic and Trade Relations which should include...

Work has commenced on a number of projects submitted by Members of Parliament (MPs) across the island for funding, under the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), announced by Prime Minister Bruce Golding earlier this year. The CDF, which is funded from the national budget, provides a dedicated allocation for community development activities in each of the island's 60 political constituencies, with...

Residents of Moneague, St. Ann can take advantage of the FREE "Beyond the Horizon" medical and veterinary fairs being hosted by the Ministry of Health in partnership with the United States Embassy until May 20, 2009. The team conducting the medical fair was at Faith Tabernacle earlier this week, and will be at the Lime Hall Community Centre from today...

It began as a pilot project to provide an after-school facility for employees who wanted safe supervision for their children while they were working. But today, in gaily decorated settings on the ground floor, the day care centre at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, North Street in Kingston, has evolved into an exemplary model of a low-cost, early-childhood...

Twenty-seven year Andre Hylton has faced a number of challenges in life. The young man, who hails from Jones Town in Kingston, tells a familiar story of inner city struggles. From growing up in a poor, dysfunctional family, where he was often left alone to fend for himself, not attending school regularly, and finally, being placed in state care after...

Jamaica's delegation to the annual World Health General Assembly (WHGA) is traveling to Geneva this week. The delegation is being led by Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, who will be accompanied by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Grace Allen-Young and the Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Shiela Campbell-Forrester. Some issues to be discussed at the World...

Minister of National Security, Senator the Hon. Dwight Nelson, has said that the Government remains committed to upgrading the facilities of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) at Up Park Camp in Kingston. "We can't have an important piece of our defence mechanism, like the army, existing in this state of disrepair. It is something I am going to have to...

Residents of Tower Isle and surrounding communities, in St. Mary, can now access the Internet, and do training in Information Technology (IT), thanks to the International University of the Caribbean (IUC), Tower Isle Campus. The institution recently officially opened its internet caf