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On September 7 this year, a Dogsled team from Jamaica will be featured at the annual Toronto Film Festival, with the premiere of 'Sun Dogs'. 'Sun Dogs', currently in production in Jamaica, is a documentary feature, chronicling the struggle and adventure of the dogsled team, which raced at the 2006 United Kingdom (UK) Sled Dog Championship in Aviemore, Scotland, held...

Students from some 45 basic schools in St. Elizabeth will today (May 11) participate in a one-day kiddies cricket tournament at the Alumina Partners of Jamaica (Alpart) sports club in Nain. Public Relations Manager at Alpart, Lance Neita, told JIS News that the youngsters would compete on five prepared pitches on the club grounds, under the "watchful eyes of teachers,...

The Portmore Municipal Council has set up a company, which will seek funding for development projects in the municipality. Portmore's Mayor, George Lee, told JIS News that Portmore was becoming impatient for development, but funds were slow in coming, "so, the Council has set up this private company, which will act on its behalf, to access funds in public and...

The beautification of the May Pen town centre is the Clarendon parish project for Labour Day 2006, which will be observed on May 23 under the heme: 'Jamaica's Beauty - Our Duty,'. Estimated to cost $418,000, the project will entail the segment of roadway from the National Works Agency (NWA) office on Trenton Road, to Old Almhouse Hill on Brooks...

Legal practitioners, businesspersons, young persons and community workers are expected to gain insight into mediation and negotiation skills, during the 3rd Caribbean Conference on Dispute Resolution, to be held at the Half Moon Hotel in Montego Bay from May 24 to 27. The biennial conference, which is being organized by the Dispute Resolution Foundation, in concert with the Mona School...

With just over a month before the staging of the second Diaspora Conference, State Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Delano Franklyn, is reporting that several of the proposals, which were put forward by delegates at the inaugural conference held two years ago, have been achieved. Among them, he said, are establishment of trade councils outside of Jamaica...

Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. Omar Davies, has invited suggestions from the Opposition, special interest groups and the public at large, regardingthe management of the Education Transformation Fund. Dr. Davies invitation formed part of his response in the House yesterday (May 10), to Opposition Leader, Bruce Golding, who last week said the Government's proposal to consolidate statutory payroll deductions into...

Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. Omar Davies, has said that steps would be taken to rectify identified deficiencies in the legislation governing the tendering, consideration and award of contracts. Minister Davies made the announcement while closing the 2006/07 Budget Debates in Gordon House yesterday (May 10), in response to claims by Opposition Leader, Bruce Golding, that the procedures for the...

Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. Omar Davies, has dismissed proposals put forward by Opposition Spokesperson on Finance, Audley Shaw to address the country's debt problem, including accessing US$1 billion in low cost loans from a consortium comprising the World Bank, the Inter American Development Bank, and the Caribbean Development Bank, to replace expensive instruments. He noted that while the country...

Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Science and Technology, Dr. Arnoldo Ventura, has said that the only way government could cope with risks and uncertainties was by deploying scientific approaches.He pointed out that this would bolster confidence to pursue innovations prompted by evidence-based information. "This can go a far way to create new enterprises, ensure higher productivity, allow better...

Organizers of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 are reporting that the tickets in the most demand since the launch of the ticketing programme on May 1, are those for the finals in Barbados and the semi-finals in Jamaica and St. Lucia. A further breakdown of the number of applications for ticket packages so far, reveal that matches involving the...

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has said that her vision for Jamaica was a country where there is universal literacy, with an education and training system that produces first class citizens, capable of competing within any sector of the world economy. Delivering her maiden presentation as Prime Minister in the 2006/07 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives, yesterday (May...