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A sum of $22.75 million has been allocated to the Ministry of Tourism, Entertainment and Culture, for infrastructure works to be undertaken to facilitate Cricket World Cup 2007. The allocation, now before the House of Representatives, will be spent at two tourist attractions, the Bath Fountain in St. Thomas and Milk River Hotel and Spa in Clarendon; the Tourism Liaison...

A total of $300 million has been allocated to the Sport and Recreational Facilities Development Project in the Office of the Prime Minister for the current fiscal period. The provision was made in the 2006/2007 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives.The project, which is funded by the government of Jamaica and the Venezuelan Investment Fund, is being...

Under the 2006/07 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives, the Ministry of Education and Youth has been allocated some $1.9 million for the New Horizons for Primary Schools Project. The project, which began in 1998, seeks to increase literacy and numeracy in targeted schools by the provision of quality education, and also looks at improving the scope...

Dr. Cherrell Shelley Robinson, author and lecturer at the University of the West Indies, has urged students to protect the rights of authors by not plagiarising their material. Dr. Robinson, who was speaking at the launch of World Book and Copyright Day 2006 on Tuesday (April 11) at the St. Thomas Technical High School, said that while it was important...

The AIDS/STD Prevention and Control Project of the Ministry of Health, has received $8 million, as set out in the 2006/07 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The allocation will be used to continue the control of HIV/STD infection as well as reducing the transmission of the disease in Jamaica and improving the health status of Jamaicans....

A total of $3 million has been allotted for the Policy Advocacy Special Care and Protection project in the Ministry of Health in the 2006/07 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The allocation is for the promotion of policy and legal reform to address and enforce the rights of all children and to empower implementing agencies to...

A sum of $13.9 million has been allotted to the Citrus Replanting Project in the 2006/07 Estimates of Expenditure, to prevent further decline in the industry, which is threatened by the citrus tristeza virus, and to provide growers with the necessary technical information to effectively manage the groves. As contained in the Estimates of Expenditure, which was tabled by Finance...

A sum of $10 million has been allotted to the Improved Reproductive Health of Youth Project in the Health Ministry, as set out in the 2006/07 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The allotment will continue improvements in the reproductive health practices among adolescent youth. Funded by the Government and the United States Agency for International Development...

The Jamaica Bureau of Standards' project for the Strengthening of Jamaica's National Quality Infrastructure has been allocated $19.9 million in the 2006/07 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The allocation will go towards the continuation of initiatives aimed at the modernization of Jamaica's National Quality Infrastructure in keeping with internationally accepted principles and the requirements of a...

Some $12 million has been allocated to the Improved Education of Targeted Jamaican Youth Project, which falls under the Ministry of Education and Youth. This is contained in the 2006/2007 Estimates of Expenditure, which was tabled in the House of Representatives yesterday (April 12), by Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. Omar Davies. The Improved Education of Targeted Jamaican Youth Project...

The Ministry of Housing, Transport and Works is to receive $610 million for the improvement of water supply systems in rural communities and to implement new systems, under the Major Rural Water Supply Project. The provision is made in the 2006/2007 Estimates of Expenditure, which was tabled in the House of Representatives yesterday (April 13), by Finance and Planning Minister,...

Three Jamaicans were among the Officer Cadets who graduated from the prestigious Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst in the United Kingdom (UK), at the Sovereign's Day Parade on April 12. The Jamaicans, Officer Cadets Sheldon Bryan, Carl Clarke and Kayon Mills were among 16 other overseas cadets representing 11 countries who graduated in a class of 219 Officer Cadets. Only one...