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The New Green Primary School in Manchester has won the first round of the Windalco Fourth Annual Safety Quiz Competition. The competition, which saw eight primary schools in Manchester participating began on November 24 at the Kendal Conference Centre, where New Green Primary came out the winners in the first round. Coordinator for the New Green team, Ivarine Johnson-Manzalin, told...

The National Child Month Committee (NCMC) on November 28 hosted a youth forum under the theme 'Our Children's Investment, Tomorrow's Gain' in order to allow youths to air their concerns. Chairperson for Committee, Dr. Pauline Mullings who addressed the forum at the Stella Marris Pastoral Centre in Kingston emphasized that the forum was designed to showcase the youth. "Youth Forum...

The Social Development Commission (SDC) in St. Elizabeth is working in partnership with the police to keep communities safe, and expand trust and good relations between the security forces and the citizens in the parish. During an address at a recent St. Elizabeth Homecoming Foundation crime forum held at the Black River HEART Trust/NTA Academy, Regional Director of the SDC,...

Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Christopher Tufton, has assured that the Government will be doing a lot more to enable farmers to produce more efficiently and to compete more effectively in the global market. Addressing the official launch of the Jamaica Producers Tropical Foods - a division of Jamaica Producers Group, at the St. Mary Banana Estates in Annotto Bay, St....

Hundreds of students from secondary and tertiary institutions across Western Jamaica participated in a two-day information fair hosted by the University of the West Indies (UWI) at its Western Jamaica Campus, in Montego Bay from November 27 to 28. According to Assistant Registrar in the admissions section at the UWI Mona Campus, Marjorie Bolero-Haughton, the fair was aimed at bringing...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding and the Head of the European Commission Delegation, Ambassador Marco Mazzocchi-Alemanni, this afternoon signed the disbursement of J$365-million (€ 3.69m), for the second installment of the fixed tranche of the 2007 sector budget support programme, for assistance to the sugar industry. The signing took place at Jamaica House. Jamaica will be receiving approximately J$9-billion for the...

Judge Joe Brown, the non-traditional presiding judge of the syndicated reality American courtroom TV show, Judge Joe Brown, has given a commitment to work with the Government of Jamaica in developing programmes to help re-socialise and motivate young people, especially young men. Judge Joe Brown gave his commitment when he paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Bruce Golding, at...

State Minister in the Ministry of National Security, Senator Arthur Williams, has called for the strengthening of coordination and cooperation mechanisms in the region in order to address the issue of human trafficking in the Caribbean. "I believe that there is need to strengthen co-operation at the regional level, (as), increasingly, the Caribbean region is being used by international criminal...

His Excellency, Governor General, the Most Hon. Professor Sir Kenneth Hall has called on young Jamaicans to engage in productive agriculture, in light of an aging farming population, and the need to be self-sufficient. He was speaking at the Fifth Anniversary of the Jamaica Agricultural Society's "Eat Jamaica Day" at the Denbigh Show grounds in Clarendon on Friday, November 28....

In order to ensure better garbage collection, the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) is, among other things, negotiating to install Global Position Systems (GPS) tracking devices on collection units in order to maintain contact with drivers and to alter schedules where necessary. Like other parishes, St. Thomas is set to benefit from an improved garbage collection schedule, Regional Operations...

Twenty-six students from educational institutions across St. Elizabeth recently participated in the staging of the Parish Council's 'Junior Council' meeting. The event, which was held at the offices of the St. Elizabeth Parish Council was held as part of the Council's scheduled activities in observance of November as Local Government Month. His Worship the Mayor of Black River, Jeremy Palmer...

Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister, with responsibility for Local Government, Robert Montague, has signed a Letter of Intent with Cuban Ambassador, Gisela Garcia Rivera to undertake a literacy programme in St. Mary. The signing, which took place at Local Government Department's Hagley Park Road offices in Kingston on Nov. 27, represents phase two of an...