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Prime Minister Bruce Golding the morning of Feb. 22 signed a petition calling on the United Nations to agree on a General Assembly Resolution to reduce road deaths and injuries caused by road accidents. The petition is part of a global initiative which is being spearheaded locally by the Jamaica Automobile Association and Jamaica National Building Society. Mr. Golding said...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has charged HEART/NTA with the responsibility of equipping students with training that will prepare them for the real world of work and employment. He said that under the government's education transformation programme, where the school leaving age will be extended from 16 to 18 years, HEART/NTA will have the greatest responsibility, as they will have to...

Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett has outlined major local and international initiatives that will be pursued to boost the growth of the tourism sector and the economy. Speaking at Wednesday's (February 20) first annual Tourism Outlook seminar for stakeholders in the industry at the Hilton Kingston Hotel, Minister Bartlett noted that the industry would be strategically targeting new and emerging...

Some US$1.8 billion, or 93 per cent of Jamaica's export earnings, was spent by the government to import 30.8 million barrels of petroleum products in 2006. According to Director of Energy, Economic and Planning Unit at the Ministry of Energy, Mining and Telecommunications, Yvonne Barrett-Edwards over the period 1995 to 2006, there was a "constant increase" in the consumption of...

State Minister in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Michael Stern has underscored the importance of high quality service being provided by accredited medical laboratories to key sectors of the economy. Speaking at the closing and awards ceremony for the Laboratory Accreditation Technical Assistance Programme at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston on Friday (February 22), Mr. Stern said...

Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett has outlined major local and international initiatives that will be pursued to boost the growth of the tourism sector and the economy. Speaking at Wednesday's (February 20) first annual Tourism Outlook seminar for stakeholders in the industry at the Hilton Kingston Hotel, Minister Bartlett noted that the industry would be strategically targeting new and emerging...

Some US$1.8 billion, or 93 per cent of Jamaica's export earnings, was spent by the government to import 30.8 million barrels of petroleum products in 2006. According to Director of Energy, Economic and Planning Unit at the Ministry of Energy, Mining and Telecommunications, Yvonne Barrett-Edwards over the period 1995 to 2006, there was a "constant increase" in the consumption of...

State Minister in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Michael Stern has underscored the importance of high quality service being provided by accredited medical laboratories to key sectors of the economy. Speaking at the closing and awards ceremony for the Laboratory Accreditation Technical Assistance Programme at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston on Friday (February 22), Mr. Stern said...

The sale of assets of Entertainment Systems Limited, one of the Corporate Area's larger cable outfits, to Columbus Communications Jamaica Limited (FLOW), is now on hold as the Broadcasting Commission obtained an injunction against both entities on February 20. The injunction restrains FLOW from acquiring the cable television and the communication assets of any other company, unless approval of the...

The Broadcasting Commission is dismissing the call to revisit the national cable licence granted to Columbus Communications Jamaica Limited, operating as FLOW. Responding to the view, Chairman of the Broadcasting Commission, Dr. Hopeton Dunn said that the licence granted to FLOW provided all the safeguards and care that are necessary in pursuit of public policy. "In fact, the provisions within...

Eight persons of Jamaican heritage who have contributed significantly to the development and preservation of the island's culture overseas will be recognized during Black History Month celebrations at the Brooklyn Borough Hall, downtown Brooklyn, New York, on Monday, February 25, beginning at 6:00 p.m. The celebration is a presentation of the Consulate General of Jamaica, the Jamaica Information Service (JIS),...

A website geared at informing communicators about issues important to them, 'massCommagazine.com', was launched on February 20 at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston. The website, conceptualized by Berbick Graham and Associates, started as a monthly newsletter (StratCom) in May 2006 and offers news and resource information, which focus on the media, public relations and marketing industries. Chief Executive Officer...