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The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) will be undertaking an islandwide earthquake simulation exercise on January 31. This is part of activities to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the earthquake, which destroyed Kingston and Port Royal on January 14, 1907. The simulation exercise is being organised to occur right after Earthquake Awareness Week, which will last from...

The annual St. Mary agricultural expo is currently being re-organized to create a wider public appeal and to ensure greater success in promoting agricultural development in the parish. The show, which is being organized by the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), will be held on April 8 and 9 at the Annotto Bay Sports Club in Annotto Bay, St. Mary. In...

Books by two award winning writers of Jamaican heritage, Andrea Levy and Benjamin Zephaniah, have been selected for special reading projects in the United Kingdom (UK) this year. Miss Levy's book 'Small Island' has been selected for a project dubbed 'Small Island Read 2007', which is one of the biggest mass-reading initiatives to take place in Britain. The project brings...

Portmore's Mayor George Lee has appealed to residents of the borough of Waterford to co-operate with the field testing team from the Ministry of Health, who were in the community to identify cases of malaria and destroy mosquito breeding sites. Mayor Lee, who made the appeal at a January 10 meeting of the Portmore Municipal Council, said he had received...

With the nation's schools set to observe Earthquake Preparedness Day on January 17, the Ministry of Education and Youth is assuring parents that school buildings are safe and will withstand tremors. "Our buildings are made to withstand quite an impact and . in general, the buildings will substantially remain," said Lauriston Wilson, Director of Project Management in the Ministry. Mr....

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) will be undertaking an islandwide earthquake simulation exercise on January 31. This is part of activities to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the earthquake, which destroyed Kingston and Port Royal on January 14, 1907. The simulation exercise is being organised to occur right after Earthquake Awareness Week, which will last from...

The annual St. Mary agricultural expo is currently being re-organized to create a wider public appeal and to ensure greater success in promoting agricultural development in the parish. The show, which is being organized by the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), will be held on April 8 and 9 at the Annotto Bay Sports Club in Annotto Bay, St. Mary. In...

Books by two award winning writers of Jamaican heritage, Andrea Levy and Benjamin Zephaniah, have been selected for special reading projects in the United Kingdom (UK) this year. Miss Levy's book 'Small Island' has been selected for a project dubbed 'Small Island Read 2007', which is one of the biggest mass-reading initiatives to take place in Britain. The project brings...

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of the ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC) West Indies 2007 Inc., Chris Dehring, has said that the region must meet its obligations in a number of areas to ensure a successful cricket tournament. He told JIS News that should the region fall down in any area of preparation, then the staging of the event...

A task force, comprising representatives of government, the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) and the Jamaica Employers Federation (JEF), is to be appointed to look into the plan to raise the income tax threshold. The move comes as the government, due to procedural delays, was unable to meet the January 1 date for the raising of the threshold from...

Minister of Finance and Planning, Dr. Omar Davies, has said that the 2006 financial year was the best in his 14 years as head of the Ministry. Minister Davies, who spoke to JIS News at the opening of the Jamaica Stock Exchange Investments and Capital Markets conference in Montego Bay on January 10, credited the success to prudent government policies...

The Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) is to continue its passport acquisition campaign in the United States (US), by visiting Boston in the North East. To encourage Bostonians to get their passports, the JTB will host another in its on-going series of 'Jamaica Morning Coffee Break', at the South Station Train Terminal, Boston, on Tuesday, January 23, from 7:00 a.m. to...