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Executive Director of the Broadcasting Commission, Cordel Green, is urging all stakeholders to prepare to take advantage of the potential and possibilities that exist in the media and broadcasting landscape. Speaking with JIS News during the final leg of an island wide familiarization tour of the installation of broadcast facilities and cable services across the Corporate Area, the North Coast...

Professionals across 29 sectors in Caribbean firms (Contractual Service Suppliers), will be able to work temporarily in European states, under the Services and Establishment Section of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union (EU) and CARIFORUM. They are subject to conditions stipulated in the EPA, and the stays can be granted to eligible individuals for up to 90...

A restorative justice policy will be developed for Jamaica during the course of the new financial year, which begins in April and will be presented to Cabinet for approval. Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Senator Dorothy Lightbourne, speaking at a press conference held recently at the Ministry to launch the second annual Restorative Justice Week, said the move is...

Another campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) will be established in Montego Bay, St. James within another year. With plans for the institution still being finalized, the exact location is not yet known but according to Principal of the Mona Campus of the UWI, Professor Gordon Shirley, the current thought is that it will be situated in...

President of the Press Association of Jamaica, Desmond Richards has said that protecting an individual's reputation while not limiting the media's right to freedom of expression are major issues relating to the review of Jamaica's libel laws. "So far, in the discussion a number of points have emerged and one which keeps repeating and recurring is reputation," he stressed in...

The Government is considering expanding the existing inmate work programme, which utilizes the labour of incarcerated persons, to carry out public works projects. Responding to a suggestion that inmates be utilized more in this regard, during his first one-hour radio call-in programme on Wednesday (January 30) from Jamaica House, Prime Minister, Bruce Golding disclosed that the matter had been recently...

The Mandeville chapter of the Women's Centre Foundation of Jamaica, has received $1.7 million to restore its roof, which was completely destroyed by Hurricane Dean last August. Most of the funds are being donated by the Government of Jamaica, while United Way of Jamaica and the Returning Resident Association (London chapter), have put up more than $250,000. Manager of the...

More than 750 households and 3,000 residents in St. Thomas will have access to potable water from the Whitehorses/Botany Bay/Pamphret Water Supply Scheme, which was officially launched on Thursday (January 31), on the grounds of the Old Goodyear Factory in Springfield, St Thomas. Following the ceremony, Minister of Water and Housing, Dr. Horace Chang, Minister of State in the Ministry,...

The Muirton Child Care Facility in Portland is receiving valuable assistance from the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE). Since March 2006, the college, through its Department of Biological and Physical Sciences, has been involved in a number of developmental initiatives aimed at improving the surroundings of the facility and furthering the education of the 25 boys in its...

Twenty- two year old Gary lives with his family in a remote district in St. Catherine. Like a lot of young man his age, Gary is addicted to marijuana. Sometimes, smoking the drug makes him "go off" as the neighbours like to say, resulting in erratic and even violent behaviour. Gary's aunt took him to a clinic in Spanish Town...

Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, while noting the value of Air Jamaica to the national economy, said it is costing the country too much to maintain the airline and the Government is looking to remove it from the national budget. Mr. Golding, who was responding to a question during his first one-hour radio call-in programme on Wednesday (Jan. 30) from Jamaica...

Acting President of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU), Wayne Jones, is confident that the unions will be able to secure improvement in the conditions of employment for public sector workers, as negotiations with Government for a Third Memorandum of Understanding (MoU 3) got underway yesterday (Jan. 31). Mr. Jones, who was speaking at a pre-negotiation press session held...