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Cabinet has given its approval for the award of a contact valued at $21.3 million to Movern Developments Limited for the procurement of the chemical soil stabilizer, Roadbond. "This soil stabilizer is a chemical that is used to enhance both soil and marl roads, so that they are more viable and can take heavier and more difficult traffic and retain...

Cabinet has given the go-ahead for the Ministry of Industry, Technology, Energy and Commerce, to award a contract valued at $41.158 million to Quality Plus Contracting Company Limited to provide plant maintenance labour services to Petrojam Limited for two years. This was announced yesterday (May 21), by Minister of Information and Development, Donald Buchanan at the weekly post-Cabinet press briefing...

Cabinet has approved the award of a contract in the sum of $57.21 million to G.M. & Associates Limited to construct a Resident Magistrate's court and a police station in Cambridge, St. James. Minister of Information and Development, Donald Buchanan, speaking at yesterday's (May 21) post Cabinet press briefing held at Jamaica House, informed that the Ministry of Justice and...

Some 30 projects have been registered in St. Ann for Labour Day (Wednesday, May 23). Work will include the cleaning and painting of bus shelters, bushing of sidewalks, painting of pedestrian crossings and the planting of trees, among others. The parish project is the beautification of the old jail in St. Ann's Bay. Director of Administration at the St. Ann...

More than 60 manufacturers, buyers, distributors, retailers and promoters of Jamaican goods and services as well as local US companies will showcase their products at a two-day business expo, 'Buy Jamaican, Brand We Love', which opens on May 23, at the Signature Grand in Davie, South Florida. Minister of Industry, Technology, Energy and Commerce, Phillip Pauwell is expected to launch...

The Financial Services Commission (FSC) expects to complete its review of all properly completed applications for trustees of superannuation funds and retirement schemes by September 30. Executive Director of the FSC, Brian Wynter made this disclosure last week at a media luncheon hosted by the FSC at the Hilton Kingston Hotel to update journalists on the activities of the Commission....

Executive Director of the RISE Life Management Services (formerly Addiction Alert), Sonita Morin Abrahams, has said that the social intervention programmes offered through the Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP) has been very beneficial to the various communities in which it were implemented. The RISE Life Management Services received a five-year grant from the Ministry of National Security to undertake...

Cabinet has given drafting instructions for the Ministry of Education and Youth to establish the National Library of Jamaica Bill (2007). The Bill will see to the establishment of the National Library of Jamaica as an independent institution with primary responsibility to collect, catalogue, preserve and facilitate access to documents published in Jamaica, documents about Jamaica, and documents published by...

Lack of early stimulation in the home has been found to be the root cause of learning disabilities affecting children, who are seen at the Mico College Child Assessment and Research in Education (CARE) Centre. Clinical psychologist, Ghia Townsend, tells JIS News that this trend became evident during home investigations conducted by the centre's social workers. "Based on trends found...

Officers from the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) met with their British military counterparts in the United Kingdom (UK) last week to discuss plans to have a JDF contingent come to the UK in July and August 2007 to assist the army in its public duties and ceremonial guard mounts. The intention is for the JDF contingent to be in the...

The Senate on Friday (May 18) passed the Appropriations Bill, giving approval to the government's estimated spending of $380 billion for this fiscal year. The Bill, which was piloted by Leader of Government Business and Minister of Justice, Senator AJ Nicholson, has already been approved by the House of Representatives. When broken down, the figures show that the government expects...

On Labour Day (May 23), residents of Meadowbrook Estate and Forest Hills Gardens in Kingston will work together to beautify their communities. This combined effort is in keeping with the national Labour Day theme: 'Honouring Our Ancestors. Strengthening Communities'. Speaking with JIS News, Lilhan Davis, Public Relations Officer for the combined Citizens' Association, said that, "we want to beautify the...