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Restorative work is well underway on the Alley Bridge in South Clarendon, which is being implemented by the National Works Agency (NWA). The bridge collapsed in late 2005 after being battered by flood waters from Hurricane Wilma. This proved very inconvenient for members of at least seven major communities and some adjoining districts in the southern part of the parish....

Farmers in Portland are benefiting from a programme of assistance currently being offered by the Government of Japan, to boost agricultural production in the parish. Through the programme, the Japanese Government has made available a total of $5.5 million to the Portland branch of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), to purchase equipment and acquire other resources to increase agricultural production,...

The Clarendon Health Department will be implementing a rodent control programme in the parish, to prevent the recurrence of an outbreak of the leptospirosis disease, which affected the parish in November last year. "We're really taking a pro-active approach to the possibilities we may experience concerning leptospirosis with the impending rainy season. We want to tackle what Clarendon has as...

Managing Consultant of Global Management Services Limited and Caribbean Applied Technology Centre Limited, Dr. Henley Morgan has said that despite the inherent challenges, the island's education system remained commendable. Dr. Morgan was speaking at the 15th Annual Conference of the Joint Committee for Tertiary Education themed 'Assessing for Quality: The Tertiary Imperative'. The Conference was held at the Hilton Kingston...

The strategic plan, which was developed to guide the implementation of the revamped National Youth Policy, is set to go before Cabinet in May of this year. Director of the National Centre for Youth Development (NCYD), Ohene Blake made this disclosure in a recent JIS News Interview. Mr. Blake said the Plan, which has been ready for quite some time,...

Trinidad and Tobago has agreed to supply LNG to Jamaica at a price to be agreed. However no third party should benefit from the arrangement. This was disclosed at a joint press briefing hosted by the Prime Minister of Jamaica, Portia Simpson Miller and Trinidad & Tobago's Prime Minister Patrick Manning in Port of Spain this morning (April 25, 2006)....

Minister of Education and Youth, Maxine Henry Wilson has said that the Ministry was mindful of the "tertiary imperative" as the quality of the society was determined by the quality of its tertiary education to a large extent. She was speaking at the 15th Annual Conference of the Joint Committee for Tertiary Education, held at the Hilton Kingston Hotel. The...

Consul General to New York, Dr. Basil K, Bryan, has called on members of the Caribbean community to support Team Jamaica Bickle (TJB), the not-for-profit volunteer organization that oversees the welfare of Caribbean athletes attending the annual Penn Relays in Philadelphia, at the end of April. According to Dr. Bryan, the support from the overseas community provided the TJB with...

Newly appointed Consul General to Toronto, Canada, Anne-Marie Bonner, has promised to promote and defend the interests of Jamaica and its nationals in that city. Mrs. Bonner, who assumed duties on April 6, was speaking at a welcome reception, organized by several Jamaican organizations and held at the Jamaican Canadian Centre on April 20. "During my tenure I intend to...

Information and Development Minister, Senator Colin Campbell has disclosed that 20,000 tonnes of cement, is expected to arrive in the island from Cuba by this weekend. Senator Campbell, who was addressing journalists yesterday (April 24) at the weekly post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House, explained that the pending shipment from Cuba represented the first of three tranches, which is being...

"Jamaica is ready and open for business" declared Minister of Information and Development, Colin Campbell. The Minister was the addressing the Jamaica Trade and Investment Breakfast, hosted in Houston last Friday. The Minister, in his first overseas assignment in this portfolio, made the declaration while addressing business executives of Houston in a number of sectors, including ICT, real estate, energy,...

The country's spiralling crime rate is of major concern to Jamaicans both at home and abroad, and as such, the issue has been placed on the front burner for discussion at the second Jamaican Diaspora Conference, scheduled for June 15 to 16, 2006. Speaking at a recent JIS Think Tank, Senator Delano Franklyn, State Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign...