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Canada's Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, is to pay an official visit to Jamaica from April 19- 20. Prime Minister Harper will travel to Jamaica immediately after the Summit of the Americas, scheduled for April 17-19 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. During his visit here, Prime Minister Harper will address a special joint sitting of Parliament on Monday April 20th. He will hold...

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce Karl Samuda, has said that JANCo, a company which operated out of the Jamaican High Commission in London, England assisting Jamaican manufacturers market their products in Europe, is to be reactivated. Mr. Samuda said that a search is on to identify a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the company, to direct and manage its...

The Rural Agricultural Development Authority's (RADA) complement of extension officers has been increased, with the addition of 60 new appointees. The number brings to 120, the complement of RADA officers, who will provide technical support services to the island's more than 200,000 farmers, said Agriculture Minister, Dr. Christopher Tufton, during a media briefing at the Eden Gardens complex on Lady...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Dr. Kenneth Baugh, has offered condolences to Canada, on the recent deaths of four soldiers in Afghanistan. Speaking with Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lawrence Cannon, on March 24, in Ottawa, Canada, Dr. Baugh expressed regrets on behalf of the Government and people of Jamaica for Canada's loss. "We...

The Jamaica Library Service (JLS) today (March 26), received $1.3 million from the Rockhouse Foundation, to purchase books for the Negril Branch Library. The presentation was made at a ceremony at the JLS office, Tom Redcam Drive, Kingston. The funds will assist the Foundation to fulfill its mandate of enabling national development through the creation and support of a knowledge-based...

The Tax Administration Services Department (TASD), is reminding property owners that Property Tax payments for 2009/2010 are due on Wednesday, April 1. Payments may be made at any of the 29 tax offices across the island; online at www.jamaicatax.gov.jm or via the electronic drop boxes installed at major tax offices for cheque payments only. Director of Public Relations at the...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding, has expressed Government's appreciation for the J$2-billion (18.625 million Euros) grant from the European Union, which was handed over today, to be paid directly into the treasury through the EU's ongoing Budget Support Programme. Speaking at the official handing over ceremony at Jamaica House on Thursday March 26, Mr. Golding said the grant was a significant...

Scores of family members and friends, crowded the Hither Green Methodist Church, in London, United Kingdom (UK), on Thursday March 26, for a thanksgiving service for the life of 105 year-old Wilhelmina Morgan, who died on March 1 this year. Mrs. Morgan was originally from Moravia, in Clarendon. She moved to the UK in 1966 to join her only daughter,...

Twenty farmers from Seven Rivers in St. James are benefitting from a $3 million project, which is aimed at strengthening production standards and post-harvesting techniques and improving marketing opportunities. The project is being implemented as a pilot by the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), through funding by the United Kingdom-based humanitarian organisation, OxFam. President of the JAS, Senator Norman Grant, speaking...

Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett, has stressed the importance of service excellence in enhancing and improving the tourism product. "It is imperative that we strengthen our total tourism product by diversifying our product offerings, enhancing the quality of the product offerings and by elevating the service level," he stated at a recent press briefing held at his New Kingston office....

Everything is in place for the 2009 sitting of the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) on Thursday March 26 and Friday March 27. Forty nine thousand seven hundred students are registered for the examination. GSAT materials have been dispatched and are to be collected by the principals of schools in time for the examination. Presiding examiners and invigilators have been...

The Government's abolition of user fees, nearly a year ago, has brought health care within the reach of over 50 per cent of the poorest quintile of Jamaicans who previously reported an illness, but could not afford to get treatment. This is gleaned from figures supplied by the 2007 edition of the 'Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions', published by the...