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Chief Executive Officer of the Child Development Agency (CDA), Alison Anderson, has called for the strengthening of supportive environments in homes, schools and communities, to promote better outcomes for children. Miss Anderson, who was speaking at the official launch of Children's Expo 2006 at the Hilton Kingston Hotel today (April 11) said that, "children without a stable home life are...

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Land, Donovan Stanberry, has called for a nation-wide approach towards greater energy efficiency to reduce the dependence on fossil fuel. Mr. Stanberry, who was addressing the opening of the three-day Caribbean Climate conference yesterday (April 10) at the Rose Hall Resort and Country Club in Montego Bay, said Jamaica's consumption of fossil...

Plans are in high gear for Portmore Week 2006, which will be observed from April 23 to 29. The annual celebration is designed to highlight the development of the municipality over the years, and showcase Portmore as an ideal location for investment. According to chairman of the organizing committee for Portmore Week, Anita Lee, over the 12 year-history of the...

Sir Bill Morris, Chancellor of the University of Technology, is now Lord Morris, having been named to the British peerage by Prime Minister, Tony Blair earlier today. He is among 23 new Life Peers, seven of whom are women, who will serve for life, in the House of Lords.Life Peerages were created in 1958 to facilitate the work of the...

Mayor of Spanish Town, Dr. Andrew Wheatley, has urged political representatives to play a more active role in stemming the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the stigma and discrimination associated with the disease. "It is time for the political representatives to take charge. The time has come for us to recognize that HIV is a socio-economic problem, requiring commitment and action from...

The Jamaica 4-H Clubs will be incorporating healthy lifestyle into its curricula of existing training programmes, to expose young people to the various issues that relate to healthy living. The aim is to meet the need for a more sustained approach to educating young people about health issues that affect them. According to Lenworth Fulton, Executive Director of the 4-H...

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) office in Clarendon has honoured nine stalwarts, for their long and outstanding contribution to the scheme. Carmen McLymont-Bryant, Minna Edwards, Wilma Johnson, Gavin Brown, Dalton Robinson, Audrey Lewis, Rosalee Johnson, Cynthia Beckford and Dawn Fearon, were recognized at a special service held on Sunday (April 9) at the May Pen Baptist Church, to mark the...

Staff of the Clarendon Health Department benefited form a mini health exposition, which was hosted by the Department as part of its celebrations for World Health Day on Friday (April 7). At the expo held at the May Pen Hospital, Carlissa Pearson, Health Educator at the Department told JIS News that the event was aimed at "saying to the health...

For the first time in Jamaica's history, women will sit as judges in the Court of Appeal. They are Justices Zaila McCalla and Hazel Harris. The two were among ten judges sworn in at King's House this morning (April 10) by the Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Kenneth Hall. Others appointed were: Justice Horace Marsh, judge of the Appeal...

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) recently signed a contract valued at $12.5 million for the rehabilitation and upgrade of the Morningside Basic School in North East St. Elizabeth. "The school will soon boast a new two-classroom structure, complete with kitchen and bathroom facilities as well as furniture, appliances and play equipment for the children," Human Resource Manager at JSIF,...

Chairman of the Jamaica Haemophilia Committee, Dr. Gillian Wharfe, has said that challenges exist in treating haemophiliacs in the country. Speaking with JIS News, Dr. Wharfe said that the on and off shortage of blood has affected the treatment of patients. "You have persons, who may recognise that they have a bleed and they call in for help and we...

Legendary Jamaican singer, songwriter and actor, Jimmy Cliff, was the special guest of the Theatre Royal Stratford East, London, for the opening of the stage musical based on the seminal Jamaican film: 'The Harder They Come'. The musical, which opened last week to rave reviews, features all the songs from the original film, many of which were written by Cliff....