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Seventeen year-old, first year student at the Montego Bay Community College, Jodi-Anne Redway is the new Junior Mayor of Montego Bay. The pre-university student was bestowed with the coveted position on Wednesday (Nov. 22), at the Montego Bay Civic Centre, after immerging with the most points in the recently concluded Montego Bay Junior Mayor competition. The Montego Bay Junior Mayor...

Members of the Portland Disaster Committee are working feverishly to restore normality to communities affected by Thursday's heavy rainfall. The rains, which fell all day and throughout the night, caused extensive damage to roadways, landslides and flooding, which resulted in the death of one person and many persons marooned due to road blockages.The National Works Agency (NWA) has been busy...

More than 20 students of the Villa Road Primary and Junior High School in Mandeville, Manchester, should benefit from a Sponsor-A-Child Mentorship Programme, which was launched yesterday (November 22), at the institution. The programme, which is aimed at improving the academic performance of the students, and to increase their level of attendance, by getting members of the community involved in...

Some 135 parents from the parishes of Clarendon and St. Catherine have been recognised by the Ministry of Education and Youth for outstanding parenting values. Fourteen of them received special awards for exceptional parenting skills at an awards ceremony hosted by the Ministry's Region Six office in Ascot Hall, Old Harbour on Tuesday (Nov. 21). They include: Daylievans Worrie of...

Tourism Awareness Week 2006 will be celebrated from November 26 to December 2, under the theme: 'Tourism Enriches Local Culture, Heritage and Communities'. Announcing a series of activities for the week at a press briefing held today (November 23), at the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB), Minister of Tourism, Entertainment and Culture, Aloun Assamba, explained that the celebrations were shifted from...

Three hundred and fifty-five members of the Jamaica Civil Service Association were awarded yesterday (Nov.22) for their long and distinguished service to the country, at the Jamaica Civil Service Long Service award ceremony, which was held at the National Indoor Sports Centre. Reading a citation to the awardees, Director of Human Resource and Administration at the Ministry of Tourism, Entertainment...

The Government will be placing greater emphasis on improving the level of customer service that is provided at public hospitals and other health facilities islandwide. This according to Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Carlton Davis, who, at the launch of Civil Service week on Monday (Nov. 20) at the Ministry of Finance and Planning's Heroes' Circle offices noted that while surveys had...

The Jamaica Business Development Centre (JBDC) has been authorised to use the ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC) logo in the marketing of their products, Minister of Industry, Technology, Energy and Commerce, Phillip Paulwell has announced. The Minister made the disclosure at the opening ceremony of the Small Business Association of Jamaica's exposition yesterday (Nov. 22) at its Trafalgar Road headquarters....

As the National Housing Trust (NHT) continues to make customer service the focal point of its operations, several initiatives were implemented during the 2005/06 financial year. According to the NHT's annual report, which was tabled recently in the House of Representatives, the loans management process was revised and yielded reductions in the time taken to disburse and secure loans; the...

As at March 31, the total assets of the National Housing Trust (NHT) stood at $78.72 billion, reflecting an increase of 8.03 per cent over the previous financial year. The major areas of increase were: loans outstanding of $49.65 billion, up from $45.28 billion; and inventories of $3.65 billion, up from $1.83 billion the previous year. According to the NHT's...

Minister of Industry, Technology, Energy and Commerce, Phillip Paulwell has reiterated that e-commerce was facilitating more seamless business transactions in the island. Addressing the opening ceremony of an exposition hosted by the Small Business Association of Jamaica (SMAJ) yesterday (Nov. 22) at its Trafalgar Road headquarters, Mr. Paulwell pointed out that the recently passed e-commerce Bill would deliver greater prospects...

'Together Everyone Achieves More', is the mantra that characterises Team Jamaica, a mandatory training and certification programme conducted by the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) for persons employed or associated with the hospitality and tourism sector. The programme was developed in 1997 by an Advisory Council comprising both private and public sector tourism organizations including: The Ministry of Industry and...