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Dr. Marion Bullock DuCasse, Director of Emergency, Disaster Management and Special Services at the Ministry of Health stressed yesterday (December 7), that the malaria disease was not spreading. In an interview with JIS News, Dr. Bullock DuCasse explained that the increasing number of confirmed cases was due to the incubation period of malaria, which is between 9 and 14 days....

Former Prime Minister, P. J. Patterson is chairing a meeting on Commonwealth membership, in London.Mr. Patterson chairs the Committee on Commonwealth membership that will focus on issues concerning membership of the organization. The two-day meeting, which began on December 6, is being held at the Commonwealth Secretariat's headquarters in Marlborough House, London. The Committee was mandated by the Commonwealth Heads...

Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister, Senator Anthony Hylton, has said he was pleased with the appointment of former Information Minister, Burchell Whiteman as Jamaica's new High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK). Senator Hylton told a community meeting at the Jamaican High Commission in London on December 5, that Mr. Whiteman had the right mix of skills to be...

Jamaica's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Raymond Wolfe, on Tuesday, December 5, signed the Treaty on the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism. This treaty was adopted by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on April 13, 2005. The treaty seeks co-operation from UN member states in preventing the possibility of terrorism involving the use...

The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) continued on a path of growth and viability in 2005, with a total asset base of $335 million. According to the Institute's Annual Report, which was tabled in the House of Representatives on December 5, this figure indicates "a significant increase of $250.72 million above the $84.29 million recorded in 2004 and resulted directly...

The Government of Jamaica yesterday (Dec. 7) received $886 million in macroeconomic budgetary support from the European Commission (EC), under the Support to Economic Reform Programme (SERP III). Minister of Finance and Planning, Dr. Omar Davies, speaking at the signing ceremony held at his offices in Kingston, informed that this money constituted the third and final tranche of a budgetary...

Acting Prime Minister, Dr. the Hon. Peter Phillips is assuring Jamaicans and tourists alike that the government is taking decisive action to deal with the outbreak of malaria that has been found in sections of the capital, Kingston and the adjoining parish of St Catherine. This assurance comes in the wake of reports from the Ministry of Health of 21...

Acting Prime Minister, Dr. the Hon. Peter Phillips is assuring Jamaicans and tourists alike that the government is taking decisive action to deal with the outbreak of malaria that has been found in sections of the capital, Kingston and the adjoining parish of St Catherine. This assurance comes in the wake of reports from the Ministry of Health of 21...

Minister of Health, Hon. Horace Dalley, said yesterday (Dec. 5) that the Ministry has put an emergency action plan in place to effectively prevent the spread of malaria in Jamaica. Mr. Dalley, who was updating members of the House of Representatives on initiatives to contain the health situation, informed that a multi-disciplinary team comprising emergency health staff, consultants, among other...

Minister of Health, Hon. Horace Dalley, has said that the outbreak of malaria in communities in Kingston was being treated as an emergency health situation and not an epidemic. An epidemic describes an infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people over a given period. While an outbreak involves smaller numbers of people or is more sharply defined...

Ambassador to the United States, Professor Gordon Shirley, has called on Jamaicans in the Diaspora to invest in their homeland and in so doing, contribute to the country's development. "Take another look at Jamaica. Now is the best time to invest. Jamaica has a quality about it. The environment - it is the most beautiful place on earth. Speak to...

The House of Representatives yesterday (Dec. 5) passed the Trafficking in Persons Act, which will provide for the prevention of human trafficking, especially that of women and girls, and punish those involved in such acts. National Security Minister and Leader of Government Business in the House, Dr. Peter Phillips, who piloted the Act, said the legislation was important, not only...