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Minister of Local Government and Environment, Dean Peart has said that a draft ozone bill was being finalized for passage into law this year. Minister Peart, who was making his contribution to the 2006/07 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives earlier this week, said that, "an important provision of this law will be the requirement for refrigeration and air...

The Hon. Lousie Bennett-Coverley, who died on July 26, in Toronto, Canada, is to be accorded an official funeral by the Government of Jamaica.Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller made the announcement, while also announcing the setting up of a special planning committee under the chairmanship of Hon. Aloun Assamba, Minister of Tourism, Entertainment & Culture which will be responsible for...

Of the 1,200 volunteers who will be involved in the staging of the ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC) in the island next year, 94 will be utilised by the Transportation Committee for the Jamaica Local Organising Committee (LOC). Other volunteers will be assigned to areas such as accommodation, accreditation, information booth, magnetometers, media, sight screen, meet and greet, ushering, venue...

The country's level of disaster preparedness has significantly improved, when compared to previous years, Minister Dean Peart has asserted. Making his contribution to the 2006/2007 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives yesterday (July 26), the Local Government and Environment Minister pointed out that over the last few years, the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), which is...

The Office of the Contractor General conducted a number of workshops and meetings last year, to discuss specific issues relating to government procurement procedures. As stated in the Office's annual report for the calendar year 2005, which was tabled in the House of Representatives on Tuesday July 25, the agency's inspectorate, on identifying a number of deficiencies in methods of...

Farmers of branch societies of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) in Clarendon, have joined with representatives of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) in the parish, to prepare their pavillion for Denbigh 2006. In a JIS News interview, RADA Parish Manager Percival Shaw, said that pavillion preparations have begun in earnest, to be ready to compete in the Parish Pavillion...

Seven young women between 12 and 21 years of age will compete for the title of 'Miss Clarendon Police Youth Club Movement' on Friday, July 28 at the St. Gabriel's Anglican Church Hall in May Pen. The competition will be held under the theme: 'Sexually Healthy, Crime Free Living: It's Worth Having'. Corporal Cornel Stewart, Police Youth Club Co-ordinator for...

Member of Parliament for West Central St. James, Clive Mullings, has proposed that a single regulator be established for the telecommunications sector, through a merger of the telecommunications functions of the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) and the regulatory functions of the Spectrum Management Authority. The Opposition Spokesman on Mining, Energy and Telecommunications, who made the proposal during his 2006/07...

The Jeffery Town Farmers Association in St. Mary will stage its second annual Breadfruit Festival on Sunday, August 20, which will feature the best of breadfruit production in the parish and highlight meals prepared from the produce. The St. Mary office of the Social Development Commission is assisting with the planning of the event, which will be staged at the...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, Victor Cummings, has informed that the Ministry has redesigned its Youth in Agriculture Programme, "to cater for young people from all walks of life". He also pointed out that there has been an overall increase in youth involvement in the sector.Mr. Cummings, who was making his contribution to the 2006/2007...

Contractor General, Greg Christie, has said that the office performed "relatively creditably" last year, in terms of the discharge of its contract monitoring and investigation mandates, the provision of services to the National Contracts Commission (NCC) and conducting procurement outreach and educational workshops. Mr. Christie, in his introductory remarks in the 2005 report for the Office of the Contractor General,...

A Ministry Paper entitled, Parliamentarians Pay and Conditions of Service, was unanimously supported in the House of Representatives yesterday (July 26), when it was moved for adoption by Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. Omar Davies. He informed the House that the Ministry Paper emerged from a report of a Special Select Committee that examined proposals put forward in the Parliamentary...