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The Jamalco bauxite company has collaborated with the HEART Trust/NTA to provide skills training for 1,700 young people, who, on graduation, will be eligible for employment under the company's plant expansion programme. Jamalco's Managing Director, Alberto Fabrini, in his address at a stakeholders' breakfast forum held on Friday (March 10) at the company's Halse Hall location in Clarendon, informed that...

Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General, Jose Miguel Insulza, has lauded Prime Minister P. J. Patterson for his work over the years, to promote the cause of marginalized and economically challenged countries within the hemisphere. Secretary General Insulza, who was speaking at a special protocolary session of the Permanent Council of the OAS in Washington, DC on Thursday (March...

Prime Minister, P.J. Patterson, has called on governments throughout the Americas to deepen the economic integration process and forge hemispheric, regional and sub-regional linkages that would enable small states, in particular, to withstand challenges in an increasingly globalized international economic environment. The Prime Minister's statement came as he addressed a special protocolary session of the Permanent Council of the Organization...

The Senate, on Thursday (March 9), passed amendments to the Broadcasting and Radio Re-Diffusion Act, to expand the categories of licences granted by the government to include special subscriber television service, independent programme provider (subscription only) and other independent providers. The Bill will also empower the Information Minister to approve licences accordingly. Piloting the Bill, Leader of Government Business and...

The Houses of Parliament will observe Commonwealth Day on Monday, March 13, with an exhibition and a mock youth ceremonial opening of Parliament. The exhibition, which will be mounted in the Chamber Lobby at Gordon House, will depict the Commonwealth of Nations and activities of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, of which Jamaica is a member. According to the Acting Clerk...

Transport and Works Minister, Robert Pickersgill has said work on Phase 1A of the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston would be substantially completed, in time to accommodate the passenger flow that is expected when the island hosts the ICC Cricket World Cup in March 2007. Mr. Pickersgill made the disclosure during his address at the contract signing and groundbreaking...

Physically challenged persons attending the ICC World Cup Cricket games at Sabina Park and Greenfield next year, should have no problem accessing the venues, as the stadiums will be equipped with facilities for the disabled. State Minister for Labour and Social Security, Senator Floyd Morris, said that the move was in keeping with government's thrust to make public areas more...

The Dunrobin community is to benefit from the construction of a new basic school and community centre, through the collaborative efforts of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) and the Rotary Club of Kingston. The $19.4 million Dunrobin Educational and Community Centre project was launched yesterday (March 9) at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel. Managing Director of JSIF, Scarlette Gillings, in...

The government will be amending the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica Act to make provisions for the formal establishment and operation of the PetroCaribe Fund. Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. Omar Davies, who made the disclosure in Parliament on March 8, said that the process by which the fund would be managed had already been taken to Cabinet. He informed that...

Mayor of Kingston, Councillor Desmond McKenzie, has appealed to the private sector to work with the state to coordinate a national programme to save and protect the nation's children from harm. Councillor McKenzie was addressing the launch of the Dunrobin Educational and Community Centre project at a Rotary Club of Kingston luncheon at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel yesterday (March 9)....

State Minister for Education, Youth and Culture, Dr. Donald Rhodd, has said that the Ministry's National Policy for HIV/AIDS Management in Schools was intended to protect the rights of all students and staff to remain within schools, irrespective of their real or perceived HIV status. The State Minister was speaking today (March 10) at the launch of the National Policy...

The Innswood High School in St. Catherine will be staging a three-day programme of activities designed to encourage proper values and attitude among students. The programme of activities, which get underway on Monday, March 13, is being held under the theme: 'Violence is Preventable.' According to Vice Principal, Jacqueline Boyd-Vassell, the three-day event is part of the institution's Values and...