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With the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup now completed, several communities across the island, including Hanover, are set to benefit from the legacy of the event. Project Manager for the Jamaica Cricket Legacy programme, Robert Stephens explained that arising out of the programme a number of projects were identified by stakeholders in various communities across the island for development over...

Chairman of the Jamaica National Bicentenary Committee, Professor Verene Shepherd has urged the relevant stakeholders working with the Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT), to reopen discussions on a plan to declare the historic core of Kingston a protected national heritage. Speaking at Tuesday's (May 8) launch of Senator Anthony Johnson's second edition of 'City of Kingston Souvenir' book at the...

A number of banana farmers under the Jamaica Producers operation, as well as other small and medium size farmers have commenced the approval process for the Fairtrade certification of local bananas. This was disclosed by Government Senator Norman Grant in the Upper House on Thursday (May 10). "This will result in an additional premium in the price for bananas entering...

Superintendent of Police in charge of St. James, Steve McGregor, has warned residents of the parish against acts of vigilante justice, including mob killings, emphasizing that such acts are just as illegal and repugnant as any other crime. Superintendent McGregor was speaking to residents of Roehampton on Thursday (May 10) as part of his series of community meetings in the...

Cleaning and beautifying Savanna-la-Mar's leading burial site in Westmoreland, Tate Cemetery and the Guy Ottey Park, will be this year's Labour Day parish project. Beautification, landscaping and infrastructural works will also be done on community centres, parks, schools, church cemeteries and housing schemes across the parish on Labour Day (May 23) under the theme: 'Honouring our ancestors . strengthening communities'....

The Jamaica National Bicentenary Committee has allocated $10 million for the construction of an arrival point monument on the Kingston waterfront. This will serve to memorialize the experience of African slaves, who were brought to Jamaica during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade over 200 years ago. Chairman of the Committee, Professor Verene Shepherd, who made the announcement at the launch of...

Minister of Education and Youth, Maxine Henry Wilson, has urged teachers to continue to act as positive role models for students, in order to bring back peace and discipline in schools. "When I look at some of the persons, who we hold as role models, we are running the great danger of becoming a nation that is just going to...

Come June 1, the island's teachers will be able to draw down funds from a $600-million revolving loan, which has been set up by government to finance up to 90 per cent of the cost of their tertiary education. Minister of Education and Youth, Maxine Henry Wilson, who launched the fund yesterday (May 9) at the Hilton Kingston Hotel, said...

Minister of National Security, Dr. Peter Phillips this morning met with Dr. Kim Howells, Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) responsible for Counter Narcotics, Counter Terrorism, Counter Proliferation, Conflict Issues, the Middle East, Afghanistan and South Asia, and UN Reform. During the meeting, the ministers discussed a number of issues, relating to the ongoing cooperation between...

Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Jamaica Civil Service, Dr. Carlton Davis, has pointed to the importance of networking in enhancing the capacity of the public sector to perform efficiently and effectively. "It has been a factor in the successes that we have achieved in the reform process that we have been undertaking here over the last decade," Dr. Davis...

Agrofest 2007, the premier agricultural and industrial show for Kingston and St. Andrew, promises to be a grand event this year, with impressive displays of farm produce and an exciting entertainment package guaranteed to please the entire family. "We are mixing agriculture with festival and fun," said Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) President, Senator Norman Grant, at the launch of the...

The Kingston College Old Boys' Association will pay homage to its cricketing greats at the association's 25th anniversary gala slated for May 12 in Queen's, New York. At the event, awards will be presented to Jimmy Cameron, J.K Holt, Easton McMorris, Michael Holding, Marlon Tucker, Robert Samuels, Mark Neita, Marlon Samuels, and posthumously to the late Collie Smith, for their...