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It has been one year since I became Prime Minister and I greet you this evening in a spirit of thanksgiving and with a renewed commitment to service.I give thanks for God's enabling Grace throughout this year of challenges, changes for the better and the sowing of seeds for future reaping. I also thank you, the Jamaican people, for your...

Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Professor Kenneth Hall, has praised Jamaicans in South Florida for their contribution to the development of Jamaica and the communities in which they resided. Professor Hall, who was addressing an audience of nearly 400 persons at the Miami Consulate's inaugural Community Service Awards ceremony held recently at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, noted...

President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Senator Norman Grant, has called for more loans to be made available to farmers at single digit interest rates, in order to foster growth and development in the agricultural sector. Senator Grant, who was giving the main address at the annual general meeting and exposition of the Portland branch of the JAS, held...

The Ministry of Industry, Technology, Energy and Commerce is to receive $70 million to finance Phase Four of the Rural Electrification Programme. The provision has been made in the 2007/08 Estimates of Expenditure, which was tabled in the House of Representatives yesterday (March 29), by Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. Omar Davies. The funds will be used for: compensation of...

The Livestock Research and Improvement Project, in the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, has been allocated some $19 million in the 2007/08 Estimates of Expenditure, which was tabled in the House of Representatives yesterday (March 29). The project, which is concerned with research activities focusing on improving the quality of livestock and animal products, comprises seven sub-projects. Of the total,...

The thrust to enable young children to learn and develop to the best of their abilities will continue during the 2007/08 fiscal year, with the aid of $184 million, which has been allocated to the Enhancement of Basic Schools Project. The sum has been set aside in the Estimates of Expenditure, which was tabled in the House of Representatives yesterday...

The Government of Jamaica has allocated some $4.5 million for Crop Research and Development in the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, in the 2007/08 Estimates of Expenditure, which is now before the House of Representatives. The project has three sub-projects; Field Crops, Roots and Tubers, Orchard and Horticultural Crops and provides funding for research leading to the improvement in the...

The Jamaica Early Childhood Development (Early Childhood Population Human Resource Development) Project, is set to benefit from $36.2 million, which has been set aside in the 2007/08 estimates of expenditure now before the House of Representatives. As set out in the estimates, which were tabled by Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. Omar Davies yesterday (March 29), the funds will be...

The Ministry of Industry, Technology, Energy and Commerce will receive $9 million to purchase equipment for the Effective Energy Conservation Project. This has been provided for in the 2007/08 Estimates of Expenditure, which was tabled in the House of Representatives yesterday (March 29) by Minister of Finance and Planning, Dr. Omar Davies. The main targets of the project for the...

The World Bank has granted US$500,000 to the Early Childhood Commission (ECC), to facilitate an 18-month research project into the country's early childhood sector. At a press conference held yesterday (March 29) at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston, Executive Chairman of the ECC, Professor Maureen Samms-Vaughn, informed that the grant was facilitated through the Japanese government. She noted that...

Several projects, which fall under the armpit of the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands' Rural Development (Survey, Land Administration, Settlement and Land Reform) programme, will benefit from an allocation of $176.98 million during this fiscal year. This provision is contained in the 2007/08 Estimates of Expenditure, which was tabled in the House of Representatives yesterday (March 29) by Finance and...

The Bureau of Standards Jamaica has been allocated $64.51 million to fund the strengthening of the country's National Quality Infrastructure Project. This provision is made in the 2007/08 Estimates of expenditure which was tabled in the House of Representatives yesterday (March 29), by the Minister of Finance and Planning, Dr. Omar Davies. The project, which is being funded by the...