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Sports enthusiasts in western Jamaica, particularly cricket fans, are in for a treat on Tuesday, May 16, as international cricket returns to Jarrett Park, after a three year absence. On that day, the touring Indian cricket team will play a one-day match in that sporting complex, against the Jamaica national team, which will be the opening fixture for the Indian...

Twenty-five year old administrative assistant, Trudy Ann Johnson, is the 2006 Festival Queen for Clarendon. She was chosen from a field of 10 contestants at the coronation show held on May 7 at Hotel Versalles in May Pen. For her victory, Ms. Johnson received a cash prize of $20,000 along with several gift packages. She was also adjudged Most Congenial...

Representatives of the regional private sector, local organising committees for Cricket World Cup and other regional bodies participated in a two-day workshop to further develop the Caribbean Business Opportunities Service (CBOS) and Caribbean Business Club (CBC), two services that organizers hope will impact the way business is done in the region. The workshop, facilitated by David Faulks, Cricket Legacy Strategy...

It is for me a blessing to be afforded the opportunity to participate in another historic day in our Nation and this Honourable House. For the first time a woman rises as Prime Minister of Jamaica to deliver a Budget Presentation. I cannot help reflecting on the struggle over the years of exemplary women such as Nanny, our only female...

Governor General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Professor Kenneth Hall has informed that the Governor General's Achievement Awards Scheme is to be expanded to involve recognition of youth in excellence. Professor Hall made the disclosure at the St. Gabriel's Anglican Church Hall in May Pen, Clarendon last week during an official visit to that parish. "We must acknowledge that they...

ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007 Managing Director, Chris Dehring, has assured that work on all stadia throughout the region would be completed in time for the staging of the international cricket tournament next March. "We certainly believe that at this point we will be ready. There is nothing that is happening that will give us any major alarm that...

Jamaica will use its position as Vice President of the United Nations Information Council to ensure that its concerns and course of action in the area of 'information for all' will be reflected in the activities of the Council. Newly elected Vice President of the Intergovernmental Council for UNESCO's Information for All Programme (IFAP), Professor Fay Durrant tells JIS News...

Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Spanish Town Hospital, David Dobson has called on the public to exercise a greater level of understanding and cooperation, as the hospital sought to deliver effective health services. Mr. Dobson is particularly appealing to persons who seek the services provided by the hospital to disregard the view that the payment of fees for services...

Grants totalling US$566,765.45 (J$37 million) have been donated to 16 charities in Jamaica by the American Friends of Jamaica (AFJ). The presentations were made on Friday, April 28, at a luncheon held at the Kingston residence of United States Ambassador to Jamaica, Her Excellency Brenda LaGrange Johnson. In her remarks, Ambassador Johnson commended the work of the AFJ in promoting...

A scholarship fund valued at $100,000.00 has been established by the Bethephil Baptist Church, in Chatham, St. James, to assist high school and tertiary level students from the community as well as students from the wider Eastern areas of the parish. Contributions for the fund were presented to pastor of the church, Rev. Rudolph Brooks, by Attorney-at-Law, Clayton Morgan, at...

The $58 million upgrading work being carried out at the Spanish Town hospital is advancing according to schedule. he work includes the refurbishment of the hospital's former maternity block, which is being transformed into the new accident and emergency (A and E), wing inclusive of a new waiting area and specialist medical equipment. A two storey medical records building is...

Mayor of Kingston, Councillor Desmond McKenzie has said that the country was in need of "a spiritual revolution" and that old family values should be revived for a better society. The Mayor made the statement while addressing a recent event held in Toronto, Canada, to commemorate the life and work of Jamaican-born Bishop, Dr. Clinton Battieste, Chief Prelate of Redemption...