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Scores of New Yorkers on Sunday evening, April 5, joined family and close associates in an emotional home-going service for Hermie G. Tomlinson, at the Emmaus SDA Church in central Brooklyn. The 91 year old matriarch of the Tomlinson family made a quiet transition on March 31, after decades of exemplary service to her adopted Brooklyn community which has been...

Over 260 Jamaicans departed for Canada and the United States, today (April 15) to join the Ministry of Labour and Social Security's (MLSS) Overseas Employment Programme, as farm workers. About 166 persons left the Overseas Employment Office, East Street, Kingston, to join the programme in Canada, while another 96 left in the afternoon for the United States where they will...

Wayne Blake and Esther Stephenson smile as they watch their infant son sleep in his hospital bed this morning (April 15) at the Bustamante Hospital for Children. Somewhere in the hospital, surgeons are preparing for surgery to mend a hole in the one-year old's heart. But, the parents feel none of the dread that one would expect, at the thought...

The California-based DILIEU Technology has donated $100,000 to the Caribbean Christian Centre for the Deaf (CCCD), to assist with the general operations of the institution. The donation follows recent reports that the school, which has locations in Kingston, Mandeville Manchester and Montego Bay St. James, may face closure, due to rising operating costs and dwindling support from overseas sponsors, who...

A total of $2.4 billion has been allocated to the Customs Department this fiscal year, as Government moves to implement strategies to meet revenue targets, collect overdue amounts, and foster an environment for voluntary tax compliance. This is contained in the 2009/10 Estimates of Expenditure, which is now before the House of Representatives. In meeting the stated targets, measures will...

The Coffee Industry Board (CIB), is recruiting some 3,000 new coffee farmers, as the Government moves to resuscitate the production of non-Blue Mountain Coffee. At a meeting held with farmers in Eastern Westmoreland on April 14 at the Enfield Primary School, Director General of the CIB Christopher Gentles, said that a number of initiatives were being put in place to...

The Ministry of Finance and the Public Service has been allotted $3.5 billion for the repayment of institutional loans this fiscal year. The provision has been made in the 2009/10 Estimates of Expenditure. As stated in the document, the bulk of the sum, $3.4 billion, will go towards the repayment of loans raised from local commercial banks to finance water...

As not-for-profits seek to find creative ways to finance their programmes and survive in the current economic downturn, one charity is seeking to capitalise on the power of Internet and celebrity. The New York-based Jamaican charity, Children of Jamaica Outreach (COJO) Inc has joined forces with the world's fastest man, Usain Bolt, and PUMAVision in this latest initiative to raise...

Imagine being independent and proud and loving it, then suddenly finding yourself totally dependent on your family for financial support! That sums up the unfortunate life of Errol Brown* over the past three years - a hardworking Jamaican who, in 2006, was hit off his bicycle by a motorcar in a hit-and-run accident and paralysed from the neck down. After...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding, noted on April 14 that Jamaicans need to develop a serious attitude to work if businesses are to overcome the challenges of the workplace. Mr. Golding said that the degree of co-operation offered by the trade unions indicated the urgent need for a transformation in the attitude of employees and other workers. The Prime Minister was...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding, has disclosed that a one stop centre to clear food and chemicals entering and leaving the island, will be opened in June. The Prime Minister was responding to questions from the Standing Finance Committee in Parliament on April 14. Noting that the details of the facility to be called the Jamaica Import/ Export Centre, will be...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding, has assured Members of Parliament that provisions are in the budget to buy emergency food supplies in the event of a natural disaster. He was answering questions of the Standing Finance Committee of the House yesterday (April 14). Noting that food could only be ordered just ahead of an impending hurricane, the Prime Minister said that...