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The Jamaica Information Service (JIS), in collaboration with Emoquad and Cable and Wireless, undertook the web casting of the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minster Portia Simpson Miller, yesterday (March 30) at 5:00 p.m. The JIS website received an overwhelming number of hits after 5:15 p.m. The users who logged on created a massive demand on the web server, which resulted...

An important principle of Cabinet and Government is collective responsibility. This morning you have all taken the Oath of Office committing to being Members of Cabinet and thereby accepting collective responsibility for the present and future of Jamaica. Let me extend congratulations to you for being appointed to undertake this responsibility, and thank you for your willingness to serve. We...

Elsie Ann Flowers is a very proud, strong, and alert centenarian, who says that she is living one day at a time. Mrs. Flowers, who celebrated her 100th birthday on March 15, says God has blessed her with the health and strength to enable her to surpass her biblical allotment of three scores and ten. "I am thankful to God...

I want to begin by recognizing the source of my strength, Almighty God. Let us stand and pray. Almighty God, in the presence of all here attending; in the presence of the people of this land and everyone else sharing this occasion, I do pay homage to you, in acknowledgement that you are the Sovereign and Supreme Lord God in...

Today, as the members of the Cabinet are sworn in, it is both my duty and honour to give the charge. I do so with the utmost sense of sobriety and hope. I first want to say that we need to embrace a certain philosophy of governance, one far removed from the plantation model which we have inherited historically. The...

Periodically, there are singular moments and occurrences that are defining in their scope and character. These extraordinary moments are not always identified and recognised at their point of occurrence, but must be followed to their destinations if their significance is to be understood. The swearing in of Member of Parliament, the Most Honourable Portia Simpson-Miller, as the seventh Prime Minister...

Cornwall College in St. James has benefited from a US$500,000 endowment fund, which will provide a continuous source of development assistance for the institution. The fund was set up by the recently formed Cornwall College Trust Limited (CCTL), which is comprised of local and overseas alumni chapters. At the launch of the fund held on the school grounds recently, CCTL...

The Blue Mountain Coffee Co-operative has received three new machines valued at some $12 million, for use at the Co-operative's operations in Yallahs, St. Thomas. Funding for the equipment, including grading and hulling machines as well as a 5-ton rotary dryer with a furnace, was provided by the European Union under the Eastern Jamaica Agricultural Support Programme (EJASP). Manager of...

The Environmental Health Unit of the Ministry of Health will begin the first round of baiting activities, under its rodent control project, in some 25 select communities and public health buildings islandwide, beginning in the first week of April. Medical Entomologist, Sherine Huntley, told JIS News that communities were selected based on where there were high levels of rodent infestation...

Outgoing Prime Minister, P.J. Patterson, has asked that his legacy not be judged solely by achievements up to March 30, when he officially demits office, but by the foundation laid for developments, which would unfold thereafter. Mr. Patterson, who was speaking at the launch of two books: 'The Transforming Landscape of Jamaica' and 'PJ Patterson in the Eyes of the...

This is a great and very special day for our country and I consider myself wonderfully privileged to be a part of it. I am proud to have contributed to the evolution of our democracy and of the political process which enable us to celebrate in grand Jamaican style a change of leadership by orderly and peaceful means that cannot...

Former Governor General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Howard Cooke, is urging Jamaicans to assess and document "our history and achievements as a people and as a nation". Sir Howard, who was speaking at the launch of the books: 'The Transforming Landscape of Jamaica' and 'PJ Patterson in the Eyes of the World,' at the Office of the Prime...