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The stock of money in circulation as at Thursday, December 18, stood at just over $48.75 billion, representing an increase of 1.34 per cent, relative to the stock of some $48 billion, which obtained for December 20, 2007. The Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) has attributed the relatively small increase of money in circulation to the slowdown in economic activity, as...

Travellers looking for an exciting and relaxing getaway were attracted to the Jamaican booth, showcasing the more than 150 tourist attractions one can experience during an island vacation, at the second annual Recreation and Travel Expo, held recently at the Miami Beach Convention Centre, in the United States. The two-day exhibition attracted scores of visitors to nearly 100 booths highlighting...

Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security, Arthur Williams, has implored law-abiding Jamaicans to join forces with the police, in an effort to solve the problem of crime in the country. Speaking at the long service awards ceremony for the Mandeville-based Power Services Company Limited, at Manchester Club in Mandeville on December 20, Senator Williams said the fight...

Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, headed a number of government and tourism officials who were on hand, at the Donald Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay on Friday (December 19), to welcome some 214 passengers who arrived in the island on the inaugural Air Canada Vacations non-stop scheduled air service from Vancouver. Mr. Bartlett said the flight was sold out...

As part of its ongoing effort to implement programmes aimed at transforming and improving the national civil registration platform, the Registrar General's Department (RGD) recently launched its Hotel Interface for Marriage Applications (HIMA) programme, which enables operators of resorts to complete and monitor the processing of marriage applications online from the RGD's website, via a secure channel from any location....

One year after its formation, the Morningside Branch of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), in St. Elizabeth, is reporting success in meeting a significant number of its targets. Addressing the organization's anniversary dinner at the Morningside Primary School on Thursday (Dec. 18), Secretary, Carmen Jacobs, informed that the group held monthly meetings consistently throughout the year and, in the process,...

A Firearms and Tactical Training Unit is to be built at the police training facility at Twickenham Park in St. Catherine. Minister of National Security, Senator Colonel Trevor MacMillan, and British High Commissioner, Jeremy Cresswell, on Wednesday (Dec. 17), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the project. The British Government has provided approximately $51 million for the establishment of...

The Papine High School, as part of activities to mark its 50th anniversary, on Tuesday (Dec. 16), staged an awards function to recognise the invaluable contributions of staff and other supporters. At the ceremony held at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston, 72 current employees and three organisations were honoured for service to the institution between five and 36 years....

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has extended condolences to the families of the fourteen (14) persons who died, and several others who sustained injuries, after the truck in which they were travelling, along the Rio Grande Valley Road in Portland on Friday (Dec. 19), plunged into a ravine. "It is a terrible tragedy, fourteen persons confirmed dead and a number of...

The Government of Jamaica through the Sports Development Foundation (SDF), an agency of the Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, has entered into an agreement with Basil Watson, sculptor, for him to create a statue of sports icon, the Honourable Herb McKenley, to be mounted at Statue Road in Independence Park. Unveiling is scheduled for November 2009. The contract...

Curphey Home, in Manchester, a shelter for ex-soldiers, has received a donation of $25,000, from Lyn's Funeral Home, to carry out minor repairs at the facility. Director of the funeral home, Calvin Lyn, told JIS News that he made the gesture, because he wanted to show his personal appreciation to the ex- soldiers, for giving of themselves to defend the...

Transport and Works Minister, Michael Henry, has said that he will be seeking the guidance of the Attorney General, Senator Dorothy Lightbourne, regarding the current tenure of Acting Managing Director of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), Bindley Sangster, at the organization. Mr. Sangster had requested a leave of absence from his position to facilitate investigations by the Office of...