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The Jamaican Diaspora-Canada Foundation (JDCF) has launched the 'We A Go Help De Pickney Dem' Fund, which is designed to raise money to improve sanitary conveniences in 600 basic schools across the island. The initiative was launched at the Jamaica Diaspora Day celebrations held last week at the Revivaltime Tabernacle in Toronto. Treasurer for the JDCF, Clive Banton, said the...

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has called on the United States and other countries responsible for deporting thousands of persons to Jamaica and other Caribbean countries in recent years, to cooperate with the country and the region in implementing measures to cut off the flow of guns to Caribbean countries, and in devising programmes for the rehabilitation, reintegration and monitoring...

Dr. Pauline Mullings, Chairperson of the National Child Month Committee (NCMC), has appealed for more Jamaicans to invest in the nation's children. "We will definitely reap what we sow and it is our [NCMC] belief that if we put in them [children] what we expect to get out of them, that is what we will get out of them and...

The government, during the current financial year, intends to spend millions to improve the public health sector. The scope of work will include the construction of several health centres, undertaking upgrading work and procuring medical equipment. Minister of Health, Horace Dalley, who made this disclosure during his contribution to the 2007/08 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on June...

In continuance of its mandate to provide care and protection for all children living in Jamaica, the Child Development Agency (CDA) will be seeking to expand its integrated response project during the 2007/2008 fiscal period. This has been outlined in a Ministry Paper tabled in the House on June 19, by Minister of Health, Horace Dalley. According to the document,...

Thirty-two small poultry farmers from various communities in Clarendon have completed a training course to empower them with skills to start income generating projects in their communities. The group, consisting of 28 women and four men, now known as the Clarendon Association of Small Poultry Growers graduated from the course on June 19 at the Denbigh Show Ground in May...

The Jamaica Red Cross has launched Club 25, a blood donation programme, which will target the youth as well as organizations geared towards them. The programme is also designed for young people to learn about healthy lifestyles and share what they have learnt with their community. "It will also involve nutrition, sexual reproductive health education and it will involve abstinence...

The Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay has secured funding for upgrading projects and acquiring medical equipment, including $15 million from the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund for electro-surgical units, orthopaedic drills and a C-Arm Unit. This information is contained in a Ministry Paper tabled in the House of Representatives recently by Minister of Health, Horace Dalley....

The Bustamante Hospital for Children has benefited from expansion in health care services, specifically cardiac and orthopaedic services. This information was disclosed in a Ministry Paper tabled in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (June 19) by Minister of Health, Horace Dalley. Expansion in orthopaedic services includes the introduction of pedicle screw instrumentation in scoliosis surgery, through partnership with the...

The St. James Parish Council, in collaboration with the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), has completed training sessions in basic first aid (theory and practical) for some 40 shelter managers in that parish. This is part of ongoing efforts to get the parish's emergency machinery in peak condition for the present hurricane season. The shelter managers were...

The Ministry of Health will be embarking on an "intense epidemiological and entomological thrust" to break the chain of transmission of malaria and move the country closer to elimination of the disease. As contained in a Ministry Paper tabled in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (June 19) by Health Minister, Horace Dalley "the Ministry is hopeful that countries that...

The Micro Investment Development Agency (MIDA) has disbursed $1.71 billion in funding to approximately 23,000 micro businesses since its inception in 1991. Board Chairman of MIDA, Anthony Freckleton, speaking at the agency's 15th anniversary celebration held yesterday (June 20) at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston, highlighted the work on the organization in the growth of the country's micro business...