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A National Security Strategy, which outlines a tactical approach to crime fighting and provides for collaboration between key entities to enhance citizen security, is now before the House of Representatives for review and approval. The strategy was developed with the assistance of international partners, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom and involved wide consultations with the Opposition, department...

Students of Jamaican heritage living across the Diaspora, who wish to be considered for the third installment of the GraceKennedy Jamaica Birthright Programme, have until February 10 to send in their applications.The forms are available online at www.gracekennedy.com and will be accepted via email at: jamaicanbirthright@gkco.com. Established in December 2003, the GraceKennedy Jamaica Birthright Programme aims to deepen ties with...

Faye Jacobs, Executive Director of Caribbean Integrated Financial Services Limited (CIFS) is proposing the establishment of a regulatory banking body for the region. One hopeful benefit of the Caribbean Single Market (CSM), as perceived by Ms. Jacobs, is that it will introduce a regional regulatory arm for the banking sector, separate from a regulatory arm for the financial services sector,...

Laws are to be in place during the first quarter of this year to allow cable operators to advertise. Senator Burchell Whiteman, Minister of Information, made this disclosure at a JIS 'Think Tank', recently. He noted that drafting instructions to change the law have been given to the Chief Parliamentary Counsel, and that a first draft of the document has...

Moore Business Forms Caribbean Limited has been contracted to produce and supply 100,000 receipt books for the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), under the National Praedial Larceny Control Programme, at a cost of $22 million. Minister of Information, Senator Burchell Whiteman, yesterday(January 16), announced that Cabinet had approved the award of the contract, at a post Cabinet press briefing held at...

Cabinet yesterday (Jan. 16), approved the compulsory acquisition of land at 6 Kensington Crescent by the Students' Loan Bureau (SLB) for parking purposes.The lot, acquisition for which has been approved under the Land Acquisition Act, is to be acquired at a maximum cost of $13 million. Making the announcement at the weekly post Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House, Information...

Cabinet has approved the award of a contract worth just over $16 million to Arima Engineering Company Limited, for electrical installation works in Denham Town under the Inner City Housing Project. "It will provide infrastructure to take power, telephone and cable services from the various supplies and external connection points to the distribution points within each apartment within the block,"...

Members of the St. Catherine Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) yesterday (January 16), participated in a simulation exercise to assess the centre's strengths and weaknesses. The exercise, organized by the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), in collaboration with the St. Catherine Parish Council, was part of activities in observance of Earthquake Awareness Week. It was held at the...

A two-classroom building to be used as the new Nutshell Basic School in North Western St. Catherine, was handed over by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) on January 13. The new building will house 40 students and two teachers, and was constructed at a cost of $10.37 million. The school has also been equipped with furniture, a refrigerator, a...

Over 3,000 students and teachers from four schools in St. Ann are now more aware of the hazards of earthquakes, after they took part in a sensitization programme during Earthquake Awareness Week (January 8 to January 13). The programme was organized by the parish's Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), in collaboration with the Jamaica Information Service (JIS)....

The Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre's information technology (IT) laboratory, which is housed at the centre's site in Downtown, Kingston, was officially opened today (January 17). This laboratory is envisioned as a training facility that will enable inmates to grasp literacy skills, become proficient in audio and video production, and also equip themselves with computer software skills. The opening comes...

Members of the public are being invited to attend a free public session on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) on Wednesday, January 25 beginning at 7:00 p.m. at the Fellowship Tabernacle Auditorium, 58 Half-Way-Tree Road. At the event the Jamaican public will be sensitised to the actualisation of the CARICOM Single Market (CSM), which came into effect on...