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South Florida attorney-at-law, Marlon Hill, was recently elected to the Jamaica Diaspora Advisory Board to represent the Southern United States of America (USA). Mr. Hill was one of seven Board members appointed at the second biennial National Diaspora conference held in Kingston in June, at which some 500 delegates from the United Kingdom, Canada, United States of America, the Caribbean,...

As the Percy Junor Hospital in Manchester strives to become the most "customer friendly" hospital in the island, some 96 per cent of the staff has received customer service training this year. According to Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the hospital, Joan Tomlinson, the aim is to have all staff trained in this essential area so as to further...

Minister of Finance and Planning, Dr. Omar Davies, has called on the board and management of the Export-Import (EX-IM) Bank to consider broadening its client base to include persons involved in the services sector, including entertainment. Dr. Davies, who was addressing the Bank's 20th anniversary awards ceremony last night (May 31) at the University of the West Indies' Mona campus,...

Executive Director of the Jamaica Local Organizing Committee (LOC) for the ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007, Robert Bryan, is reminding the public that any attempt to use any marks associated with the event without official permission will not be tolerated. "You cannot simply take it up on yourself and use the copyrighted marks and think you have done a...

Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Senator A.J. Nicholson, has said that Jamaica must address the scourge of human trafficking, if the country was to achieve true development. If we are not able to stem this scourge of human trafficking, if we are not able to get this out of our societal arrangement, the decay is going to set in...

Some $33 million is being spent to rehabilitate 6.2 kilometers of roadway from Breastworks to Bowden Pen in Portland, as the National Works Agency (NWA) continues to pursue its mandate of bringing the country's road network to the best condition possible. The work, which began in March, is scheduled for completion in July and is being conducted under the Special...

Minister of National Security, Dr. Peter Phillips, has said that several vulnerable communities are expected to benefit from social intervention programmes, aimed at improving safety and security. Opening the 2006/07 Sectoral Debate in Gordon House on May 30, Dr. Phillips explained that these programmes of social intervention sought to ensure that after the criminal elites in vulnerable communities were brought...

National Security Minister, Dr. Peter Phillips has announced that the government would be spending some $350 million during the course of this fiscal year, to enhance the technical capabilities of the security forces' intelligence services. This he said would be done through the acquisition of sophisticated and current technologies. Dr. Phillips, who was opening the 2006/07 Sectoral Debate in Gordon...

Minister of National Security, Dr. Peter Phillips has called for the restoration of the family as the key ingredient in ensuring safe communities. Dr. Phillips, who opened the 2006/07 Sectoral Debate in Gordon House on Tuesday (May 31), noted that, "the major cause of social disarray in our communities is the present state of our families and specifically the virtual...

A commemorative civic ceremony was held in Islington, St. Mary on Tuesday, May 30, to honor four citizens of the parish who lost their lives during the labor unrest of 1938. Caleb Barrett, Archibald Franklin, Thaddeus Smith and Felix McLeggon were killed by police in Islington on Friday, June 3, 1938, when they joined in the nationwide protest against the...

A year into its establishment, the Internal Affairs/Anti-Corruption Division of the Professional Standards Branch (PSB) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has been meeting its mandate. This is evident by a number of gains, including the arrest of some 43 police officers on charges of misconduct, with one conviction, while another 40 cases against officers are still before the courts....

As the government continues to modernise existing laws and establish new ones in the fight against crime, National Security Minister, Dr. Peter Phillips yesterday (May 31) pointed to a number of pieces of legislation, which he said would be brought to the Houses of Parliament during the 2006/07 legislative year. These include further amendment to the Firearm Act to introduce...