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Public health service in St. Mary should be boosted significantly when construction of the Type One Windsor Castle Health Clinic is completed. Construction of the clinic began as a community effort in August 1999, after two acres of land in the community were donated for that purpose by the late Henry Goulbourne. The total cost of the project is $7.9...

The College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) will be making available, five scholarships to 4-H clubbites in Portland, which will enable them to pursue courses of study at that institution during the next academic year. Dr. Paul Ivy, President of the college, made the announcement as he gave the main address at the launch of the Portland 4-H Youth...

Executive Director of Jamaica Cricket 2007, Robert Bryan, has called on business interests in Montego Bay to work with the local planning authorities, to position western Jamaica to take advantage of the opportunities to be created by the ICC Cricket World Cup. Mr. Bryan, who was addressing a public sensitization meeting held recently at the Montego Bay Civic Centre, said...

Although 49,000 pensioners have already registered to receive benefits under the National Insurance Scheme NIGold Health Plan, Director of National Insurance in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Denzil Thorpe says the Ministry is still not satisfied with these figures. He points out that the Ministry is actively targeting the remaining 30 per cent of pensioners who are yet...

The Coffee Industry Board's farmer training programme has been boosted with the donation of $25,000 from the Kingston-based fertiliser manufacturing company, Newport-Fersan. John Allen, the company's general manager, told JIS News that the money "is to assist the board with its various training programmes offered to coffee farmers throughout the island". "We thought that they were doing a good job...

The Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) is developing a scale and colour chart to illustrate the ripening process of the ackee and indicate when it is ready for reaping. The move comes on the heels of the recent refusal of several cases of processed ackee by the United States, due to the high levels of the toxin, hypoglycin found in...

The House of Representatives on Tuesday (March 21) approved the withdrawal of $496.6 million from the Capital Development Fund (CDF) to be paid into the Consolidated Fund, to supplement the 2005/06 budget. Piloting the resolution, Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. Omar Davies, noted that the revenue estimates for this fiscal year made provision for $2.996 billion to be transferred from...

Some 2000 military, paramilitary and police personnel from 18 countries in the region and the United States and the United Kingdom, are in the island for the Jamaica Defence Force's (JDF) Exercise Trade Winds 2006, which gets underway on March 25. The training exercise, which is held in various Caribbean islands annually, is designed to test the readiness of the...

In the midst of cries for the enforcement of capital punishment, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Justice, Carol Palmer, is appealing to Jamaicans to embrace the concept of restorative justice. Mrs. Palmer, who was speaking about the thrust to integrate restorative justice into Jamaica's criminal justice system, at the weekly luncheon meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Kingston held...

Internationally acclaimed Jamaican pianist, Orrett Rhoden will make his New York orchestral debut on Sunday, April 2, at Carnegie Hall in New York City.Rhoden, will be one of two soloists to be featured in the concert, which will benefit the Maxfield Park Children's Home in Kingston and the AIDS Children project in Zimbabwe. In addition to Rhoden, the programme will...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture continues its campaign to promote peace among students, with the staging of the annual peace concert tomorrow, March 23 at Emancipation Park under the theme: Nurturing a Peaceful Society. For the past three years, the Ministry has been involved in organizing peace concerts in all six education regions, and has focused its attention...

The House of Representatives yesterday (March 21) unanimously approved a motion calling for the establishment of a sexual offenders' registry and the implementation of a programme for monitoring sex offenders, including notifying victims and the wider community if necessary, when the offender is released. The private members motion, which spoke specifically to carnal abuse and incest, also requested that the...