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Employers applying for work permits, must first advertise job openings in the newspapers, and submit a copy of the advertisement along with the application to the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. This decision, which took effect on (Oct. 4) was announced by Labour Minister, Pearnel Charles, at a meeting with executive members of the Incorporated Master Builders Association of...

In a move to strengthen its investigative capacity and propagate adherence to safety standards in the workplace, the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, has appointed two additional industrial safety inspectors. Minister of Labour and Social Security, Pearnel Charles, made the announcement at a meeting with executive members of the Incorporated Master Builders Association of Jamaica (IMAJ) at the Ministry's...

President of Incorporated Master Builders' Association of Jamaica (IMAJ), Michael Archer, is urging foreign investors to take a collaborative approach toward training Jamaica's skilled labourers. He said that if investors provide the resources and technology to train workers, then it would be possible for Jamaica to meet the requirements of local and foreign markets. "Inasmuch as we understand the need...

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The National Hurricane Dean Clean-up Committee is committed to seeing to the completion of the clean-up campaign announced by Prime Minister Bruce Golding, according to Co-Chair of the National Hurricane Dean Clean-up Campaign committee and businessman, Michael Ammar. Mr. Ammar noted that the National Solid Waste Management Agency-(NSWMA) had received funds and the resources to undertake a full clean-up programme...

A team appointed by Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, to investigate the cause of an accident at the Fiesta Hotel, now under construction in the Point area of Lucea, Hanover, has found breaches in the hotel's construction procedures. The accident occurred on Thursday, September 20 in which a section of upper-level concrete slab collapsed resulting in the injury of four persons....

Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, said on (Oct. 3) that the prudish notion that sexuality and sex education must be hidden from children, should be dispensed with, as this leads to myths and miseducation about the subject. Mr. Golding made the call during his opening address at the Sixth Annual Chiefs of Mission Conference on HIV/AIDS at the Terra Nova Hotel....

Former Prime Minister, P.J. Patterson, has lauded the "significant" accomplishments of the 15-member Caribbean community (CARICOM), and pointed to increased cooperation among member states in the areas of air transportation, disaster mitigation, HIV/AIDS, crime and drug trafficking. Mr. Patterson, who was the keynote speaker at the annual scholarship and awards banquet of the Caribbean Bar Association's (CBA) South Florida Chapter,...

The Pesticides Control Authority (PCA) is reporting that tests on imported strawberries continue to reveal some form of pesticide residue. "We did 23 samples this year and again we found two samples of strawberries with pesticide residue. As far as we are concerned anything that is over one milligram per kilogram is unacceptable," the Registrar of the PCA, Hyacinth Chin-Sue...

Air Jamaica's Senior Vice President for Sales & Marketing, Paul Pennicook, has said that the national airline is making a significant contribution to the Jamaican economy through charity flights that assist in individual and national emergencies. Speaking with JIS News recently, Mr. Pennicook asserted that, "without a national airline, the contribution that Air Jamaica makes to recovery after natural disasters,...

Registrar of the Pesticides Control Authority (PCA), Hyacinth Chin-Sue Walters, has said that the creation of a one-stop shop at the Kingston Container Terminal, to facilitate the efficient processing and inspection of agricultural produce, is the first step towards establishing a food safety agency. Mrs. Chin-Sue Walters, who was addressing a JIS News Think Tank on (Oct. 3), said the...

Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Christopher Tufton, has said that the Ministry will be putting measures in place to replenish the country's beef stock to meet demands in the dairy industry. "Over the next year or two, we will be looking at some methods to try and replenish as well as to try and get more stock into the island.we have...