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The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), is urging residents of Old Harbour Bay in St. Catherine, to devise family disaster plans, so as to reduce the impact of a hurricane or other disasters. "How best you survive an event, depends on how prepared you are as a person and a family," Regional Co-ordinator, ODPEM, Sophia Mitchell, told...

Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Dr. Wesley Hughes, has said that while prospects for the economy remained challenging, "fairly modest growth" was expected in the forthcoming months. "This performance will be supported by growth, which we expect to see (resulting from) a recovery from the devastation of last year, when we had Hurricane Dean. So, assuming...

A total of 413 primary schools islandwide are to benefit from the skills and expertise of 63 Mathematics specialists, who will be in the schools by October. This move is part of plans to improve students' performance in the subject. Details of the initiative were given by National Mathematics Co-ordinator, Tamika Benjamin, in a recent interview with JIS News. "We...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding, has congratulated Shericka Williams on her silver medal victory in the women's 400m in the Beijing Olympics this morning. Williams came out ahead of event favourite, Sanya Richards of the USA, who placed third. Mr. Golding said the entire Jamaica is beaming with pride and joy, at the exceptionally high level of performance being displayed by...

Cabinet this morning (Aug.18) hailed as magnificent and spectacular, the performances by Jamaican athletes Usain Bolt, Shelly-Ann Fraser, Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart, who captured gold and silver medals in the men's and women's 100m finals at the 29th Olympiad in Beijing, China. Their historic victory demonstrated the resilience, determination and strength of the Jamaican spirit. Cabinet also commended the...

Prime Minister Golding has noted that once again two Jamaicans have made the country extremely proud - Usain Bolt with his World Record gold medal victory in the men's 200m final and the Olympic Record gold medal by Melaine Walker in the 400m hurdles, just minutes ago in the Beijing Olympics. Mr. Golding said that both Bolt and Walker, have...

Shericka Williams added a silver medal to Jamaica's pot tonight, after running a cleverly-timed race to beat event favourite, Sanya Richards of the USA, who could only manage third. Britain's Christine Ohuruogu, repeated her performance at last year's World Championships, just holding on from Williams to double as Olympic Champion. Jamaica missed out on the medals in the Women's 100...

Usain Bolt's mother Jennifer saw a world champion in him from he was 12 years. So it's no wonder she remains unfazed by the drama that is unfolding in Beijing. She passes a cursory glance at her picture in China's largest English newspaper, The Post, snapped after her son's historic win and quickly dismisses the notion that, like her son,...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through its JAMAICA Farmers Access to Regional Markets (FARMS) 11 project, has extended support to the Government of Jamaica in revamping the farming sector, especially as it relates to the increased adoption of protected environment agriculture technology or greenhouse farming. The JAMAICA FARMS project seeks to strengthen the Ministry of Agriculture's capacity,...

Newly appointed Executive Director of the Bureau of Women's Affairs, Faith Webster, has said that under her leadership, the Bureau would be committed to helping disabled women, and establishing shelters across the country for battered women. "A priority area will be working with women, particularly within the disabled community; women who are physically challenged, because what we recognise is that...

The Bureau of Women's Affairs in the Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports (MICYS), will be making a shift to incorporate men's issues, as part of its broader mandate of gender development. This was noted by the new Executive Director, Faith Webster, in an interview with JIS News. "Even though we are the Bureau of Women's Affairs, we are...

The Bureau of Women's Affairs wishes to heartily congratulate our female athletes Shelly-Ann Fraser, Kerron Stewart and Sherone Simpson on their tremendous feat in making Olympic history to cop gold and double silver medals in the Women's 100 metre sprint. To the extent that women play pivotal roles in sports, locally, regionally and internationally, we are pleased to see our...