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Prime Minister Bruce Golding has called on the Small Businesses Association (SBA) to encourage small and medium sized entrepreneurs (SMEs) to follow proper book-keeping practices so that they can qualify for loan financing. "We must mount a serious sensitization education programme backed up with government support that will help them, train them, to keep basic accounts. Not sophisticated accounting arrangements,...

The Standing Finance Committee of Parliament will present the 2009-2010 budget to the Houses on April 7. Prime Minister Bruce Golding gave this update as he spoke to listeners to the March 4 edition of Jamaica House Live radio programme last night. The Prime Minister informed listeners about the direction Cabinet was taking by noting that government will be using...

As the sugar harvest season gets underway, Prime Minister Bruce Golding has repeated government's commitment to completely withdraw from financing the loss-making enterprises and to secure investors for the land, factories and other state owned sugar assets. Mr. Golding was responding to an email during the March 4 edition of Jamaica House Live radio programme last night . "I made...

The St. Ann Parish Council is staging a series of town hall meetings to hear the concerns of residents and to discuss ways in which service to communities can be improved. Secretary/Manager at the St. Ann Parish Council, Clinton Gordon, said that the meetings were in keeping with the need to reach out to communities and to encourage greater participation...

International Women's Day (IWD) will be observed on Sunday, March 8. This is the day when women worldwide are recognized for their struggles and accomplishments in the various arenas. It also provides an opportunity to explore women's untapped potential and opportunities in order to allow them to participate actively in national development. To mark the Week, the Bureau of Women's...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding, has noted that Government is doing what it can to enforce laws, but values must come from the home. "We are facing a crisis, but the greatest crisis has nothing to do with what is happening in the global financial markets. Our greatest crisis is a crisis of values...We can pass laws to punish, but morality...

Jamaica's Ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Anthony Johnson, will give the inaugural lecture in a series to be presented by Diplomats in Washington under the auspices of the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, located in Washington. In a meeting with the Honourable Olivia "Babsy" Grange, Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, at her offices today...

Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Christopher Tufton, has said that the fertiliser imported from the United States, was safe for use on crops, including leafy vegetables. "This particular organic base fertiliser imported into Jamaica has been tested by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and is certified to be of exceptional quality and to be free of pathogen, and safe...

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Pearnel Charles, and President of the Small Business Association of Jamaica, Edward Chin Mook , will be the special guests of Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, tonight (March 4), on his monthly radio programme 'Jamaica House Live.' They will discuss the global economic crisis and its impact on jobs, and the role of the small...

Advisor to the Minister of Education, Robert Miller, has implored young Jamaicans to strive for excellence in their academic and non-academic pursuits, and not settle for mediocrity. Addressing a career fair at the Edwin Allen High School in Frankfield, Clarendon on Tuesday(March 3), Mr. Miller said that a wealth of potential existed within each person, which could be fully realised...

Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, Olivia Grange, has called for further amendments to be made to the Sexual Offences Act, to include provisions to protect persons with physical incapacities. "The section that deals with persons with disabilities only has provisions to protect persons with mental disorders. These provisions should be extended to persons with physical incapacities as well,...

Destination Jamaica took centre stage in New York City on Monday (March 2), as the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB), along with Al Roker Productions and WE tv, hosted the launch of the travel special 'First Ladies Tour' at the Helen Mills Theatre. More than 150 persons were on hand to view the one-hour special, which featured wife of Prime Minister,...