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Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Alvin McIntosh, has issued an order calling on the developers of the Bahia Principe Hotel, at Pear Tree Bottom in St. Ann, to suspend construction until investigations into the accident, which has resulted in the death of one worker and injuries to some 15 employees, are completed. The death and...

When mining operations began in Lime Tree Garden, St. Ann decades ago, life in the small, farming community changed forever.Expansive lands in the rural hilly region, once used for agricultural production, were claimed by the Kaiser Bauxite Company, which built haul roads to the deposits and relocated persons, who lived in the immediate mining area. Residents, who once depended on...

Agriculture and Lands Minister, Roger Clarke has encouraged farmers to get into ackee farming, noting that foreign exchange earnings from ackee production have reached some US$30 million. "There is money to be made from ackee. The Diaspora is making strong demand for the fruit and tourists, who have visited the island and tasted the national dish, are also demanding it...

Agriculture and Lands Minister, Roger Clarke, has called on organizers of food festivals to collaborate with the Ministry in the planning process, in order to reduce costs and ensure a greater level of success. The Minister, who was speaking at the second staging of the Ackee Festival at the Dinthill Technical High School in Linstead, St. Catherine, on August 1,...

The Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), organizers of the 2006 Denbigh Industrial and Agricultural Show, have partnered with the Road Safety Unit to make road safety a feature of this year's show. Speaking with JIS News, Paul Clemetson, Director of the Road Safety Unit, said that patrons could expect a host of exciting activities from the Unit. "We will be very...

As the Jamaican community in the New York Metropolitan area mourn the passing of cultural icon the Hon. Louise "Miss Lou" Bennett Coverley, Jamaican Consul General to New York, Dr. Basil K. Bryan has described her as a "phenomenal woman" who dared the world with a peculiar brand of the language of her homeland. Addressing a meeting of the Jamaica...

The Jamaica Local Organising Committee (LOC) of the ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007 says plans are underway to unveil a public education campaign later this year as part of its preparations to host the event. "A lot of changes are going to happen near the Cricket World Cup and we will have to advise the public," Major Desmon Brown,...

Cabinet has given approval for the tabling of the Electronic Transactions Bill in Parliament. Information and Development Minister, Senator Colin Campbell, who made the announcement at yesterday's (July 31) post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House, explained that the legislation was intended to provide for the promotion and development of the legal and business infrastructure necessary to implement secure electronic commerce...

As at January 1, 2006, Outdoor Poor Relief Departments under the Ministry of Local Government and Environment, catered to approximately 14,000 of the nation's poor, including their dependents and spouses. This is according to the Ministry's Performance Report, which was tabled in the House of Representatives on July 26. In order to ensure optimum care and protection of destitute persons,...

Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security, Dr. Donald Rhodd is imploring young persons to make use of all the educational opportunities that are available to them, in order to become productive citizens. "There are challenges in respect to growing up, there are challenges and concerns about your education and training, there are challenges in respect to employment.but...

The entertainment package for this year's Denbigh Agricultural and Industrial show will take on a new flavour, with the inclusion of several contestants of the Digicel Rising Stars Competition. Speaking with JIS News, Events Co-ordinator for Denbigh 2006, Doreen Hibbert confirmed that the highlight of Monday night's (August 7) stage show would be the performances of this year's Rising Stars...

Rev. Neville Callam, Pastor of the Tarrant and Balmagie Baptist Churches in Kingston, has charged the church community to "seek to the urgent renewal" of programmes and activities that would support and enhance family life in Jamaica. "I believe that it is of paramount importance that the churches prepare themselves, not only to assert the fundamental role of the family...