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The Transport Authority has introduced new security features for licence forms and stickers for public passenger vehicles (PPV) and commercial carriers for the 2007/2008 licensing period. The new security features, which were introduced at a press conference held this morning (Feb. 13) at the Ministry of Housing, Transport, Water and Works' offices in Kingston, include a wavy 'TRANSPORT AUTHORITY' text...

The Jamaica Local Organising Committee (LOC) is appealing to persons to carpool, if possible, when attending matches at Sabina Park during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007. According to Chairman of the Transport Sub-Committee for the Jamaica LOC, Major Desmon Brown, the park and ride arrangement for Sabina Park is designed in such a way to encourage carpooling. "We do...

Cricket fans are being encouraged to purchase their tickets for the ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007 through the official channels, or risk being denied entry to match venues. Tickets are available upon application to www.cricketworldcup.com and at the official ICC CWC 2007 ticket offices in all host venue countries. In Jamaica, the office is located at Shops 51 and...

Senior Counsel for the ICC Cricket World Cup West Indies 2007 Inc, Derek Jones, has said that the region is way ahead of where previous hosts, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya were in terms of planning and organization for the third largest spectacle in the world. "We have learnt enormously from the South African experience. I know it may sound...

Chief of Epidemiology and AIDS in the Ministry of Health, Professor Peter Figueroa has described HIV/AIDS as a "silent epidemic", and is encouraging all sexually active persons to do an HIV test. "Anyone who is sexually active needs to do an HIV test in order to know their status, and if you are sexually active, you have to use a...

Chief of Epidemiology and AIDS in the Ministry of Health, Professor Peter Figueroa, has said that in addition to the ongoing promotion of safer sex, the Ministry has been carrying out targeted intervention, particularly with commercial sex workers over the past year. Professor Figueroa, who was speaking at this morning's (Feb. 12) launch of Safer Sex Week at the University...

Jamaica is still maintaining its ban on blood donations from persons who have lived for over 12 months in countries that are endemic for 'mad cow' disease or a variant of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), which causes dementia in cows. The ban, which has been in effect since February 2001, affects persons who have lived in countries such as the...

The Senate on Friday (Feb. 9) approved a resolution to designate insurance brokers and intermediaries as financial institutions for the purpose of the Money Laundering Act. Noel Monteith, Minister of State for Education and Youth, who moved the Money Laundering (Financial Institutions) (Insurance Brokers and Insurance Intermediaries) Resolution 2006, said that the measure was part of the country's efforts to...

Minister of Housing, Transport, Water and Works, Robert Pickersgill has expressed satisfaction with the improvement work done on Passage Fort Drive in Independence City, Portmore. Minister Pickersgill, who toured the rehabilitated roadway as well as several others in Kingston and St. Catherine on February 8, said he was impressed with the improvement works. "This is one of the best pieces...

Jamaican-born historian, Dr. Afua Cooper, has been named as chairman of the Committee to Commemorate and Memorialize the Abolition of the Slave Trade (CMAST), which has been set up in Canada, to plan activities to observe the bicentenary anniversary. The award-winning author and poet, who is a sociology professor at Ryerson University, said she took on the role of coordinator...

Legislation to protect the public from misconduct by attorneys-at-law was passed in the Upper House on Friday (Feb. 9). The Bill, An Act to amend the Legal Profession Act, which was piloted by Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Senator A.J. Nicholson, provides for changes in relation to: the jurisdiction and powers of the disciplinary committee of the General Legal...

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director of the ICC Cricket World Cup West Indies 2007, Chris Dehring, has said that all West Indians would have to pull together to make sure that no major incidents of violence occurred during the staging of the event. "It is incumbent on each of the host countries, and it is not just the...