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The proposed Herb McKenley Memorial at the National Heroes Park will celebrate the late sports icon's stellar career in track and field. Operations Director for the National Solid Waste Management Authority, Audley McLean told JIS News that within the post burial Memorial, the track would be depicted by the use of Red Salvas and Red Begonias or Miniature Ixoras. In...

Major road works have commenced at the Port of Kingston maritime business district ahead of another phase of development of the port, which is scheduled to begin soon. The Tinson Pen Aerodrome lands are to be incorporated in the existing port area. The road works will eliminate traffic congestion between the port and the significant urban centres of Portmore and...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding has re-emphasized the need for partnership between Government and the private sector that is based on trust and dedication to building the economy through the promotion and procurement of sustained investment. "The kind of partnership that has to exist between the government and the private sector has to be one that doesn't require documentation....

The role that the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) has been playing in providing agricultural training to the nation's youth is well-known, but perhaps less well-known is its partnership with a premier youth organization in the country, the 4H Movement. There has always been a natural synergy between both organizations but that has been concretised since 1995 when...

The government is stepping up its fight against the illegal trade in drugs and guns and is looking to establish a marine security outpost on the north coast, which will provide for increased patrol of the area between Discovery Bay and Port Antonio. Minister of National Security, Derrick Smith, speaking to JIS News following Friday's (Dec. 7) official opening of...

Executive Director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), Joan Gordon Webley, has disclosed that new tenders for garbage collection would be requested by March 2008. "We will have tendered for garbage collection in a lot of areas by next March and we will be dealing with collection in a different way," she told JIS News in an interview....

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has underscored the importance of improving the education sector, with particular emphasis on early childhood education. In this regard, he said that the Government has started a series of discussions with some multilateral agencies in an effort to raise funds to properly finance the sector. The Prime Minister was giving the keynote address at the Palmyra...

CARICOM leaders have agreed to the establishment of a technical team to review a set of commodities, which have a significant weight in the consumer price index, and the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) will make a decision on the reduction or removal of the Common External Tariff (CET) from these commodities as early as January 31, 2008....

Acting Consul General in New York, Lincoln Downer, has hailed the formation of the Golden Krust/Jamaica National Overseas (JNO), Incorporation, as a step in the right direction, especially for Jamaicans in the USA. Addressing the recent launching ceremony of the joint venture remittance service at the Brooklyn Marriott Hotel in new York, Mr. Downer praised the initiative, which will facilitate...

Some 700 persons have been trained as dispute mediators at the Resident Magistrate's Court level, since the beginning of this year. All the mediators have completed the 40 hours of basic training and now offer their services at centres in Spanish Town, Trench Town, Flankers, East Kingston, and the Dispute Resolution Foundation or are a part of the peace building...

Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, yesterday (December 7), signed two contracts totalling $95 million, for the comprehensive upgrading of Gloucester Avenue (Hip Strip) in Montego Bay and the development of small hotels and properties across the tourism capital. The first contract was signed between the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) and PA Consulting Limited for the Gloucester Avenue Resort Upgrading...

Issues of freedom, resistance and the meaning of the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in 1807 are among topics being discussed by approximately 60 delegates from countries in Europe, North and South America, and the Caribbean who are attending a Bicentenary Conference at the Half Moon Hotel in Rose Hall, Montego Bay. The conference is being hosted by the...