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A 35-member medical team from the United States will be staging several health clinics in Jamaica, beginning with one in the Maroon community of Accompong in St. Elizabeth on Saturday, January 14, starting at 10:00 a.m. The visit has the full support of the Accompong Maroon Council, the Accompong Development Foundation as well as the Council of Overseas Maroons. Residents...

Regional securities dealers will explore the implementation of a regional stock exchange, when the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) holds its three-day investment conference next week. Already, the JSE has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados stock exchanges, with a view to achieving this goal, said JSE General Manager, Marlene Street-Forrest. The conference is slated...

Dr. Peter Figueroa, Chief of Epidemiology and HIV/AIDS in the Ministry of Health, has called on more sexually active Jamaicans to get tested for HIV. He noted that the estimated 140,000 tests administered last year were not enough. "Let's say that there are 1.2 million adults in Jamaica and one million are sexually active and you are just doing 140,000...

By the end of March this year, Jamaica should know whether it will continue to benefit from assistance through the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GTFAM), to continue its campaign to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS in the island. This will emanate from an assessment to be made by the Fund of the progress made under the...

The Ministry of Health is encouraging persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) to take advantage of the antiretroviral drugs that are available in the public health sector at significantly subsidized rates and in some cases, free of cost. "We are inviting PLWHA to come in and access the drugs. HIV/AIDS is no longer a death sentence. You can now live long...

The National Commission on Science and Technology (NCST) in the Office of the Prime Minister, will host its second awards ceremony of the National Medal for Science and Technology at Vale Royal on Thursday, January 12 beginning at 7:00 p.m. The National Medal for Science and Technology is a special honour bestowed by Prime Minister P. J. Patterson on Jamaicans...

Prime Minister P. J. Patterson has announced that the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) would be relocating its headquarters from its present Old Hope Road premises to the former Cable and Wireless building at the corner of Duke and North Streets in Downtown Kingston. Mr. Patterson made the announcement yesterday (January 9), at a press briefing at Jamaica House, where he...

Several communities across Jamaica have benefited from a multi-million dollar community centre rebuilding project, which was executed by corporate giant Red Stripe. The project, which was undertaken last year, saw some $10 million being spent for re-building, upgrading, and re-furbishing of six community centres and recreational facilities islandwide. The beneficiary communities are Bounty Hall, Trelawny; Rae Town, Kingston; Bull Savannah,...

Earthquake Awareness Week activities began in Portland on Sunday, January 8 with a church service at the Port Antonio New Testament Church of God in Jamaica. To be held under the theme: 'Prepare Now! Don't Wait.Be Ready for the Next Earthquake', the events have been planned by the Portland Disaster Committee and include educational talks and earthquake drills in a...

The Clarendon Parish Disaster Committee is planning a yearlong programme of activities to encourage earthquake preparedness with special focus placed on schools. "We will be targeting a number of schools to make more young persons aware of how to respond during an earthquake," said Camille Delgado, Regional Director for the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM). "It is...

Jamaican egg farmers are taking steps to enter the liquefied egg trade, in light of the growing demand and the importation of the product by the hotel and baking industries. Chairman of the Jamaica Egg Farmers Association (JEFA), Mark Campbell has said that the egg trade was big business, and needed all the support it could get to ensure its...

The National Works Agency (NWA) is spending approximately $32 million to repair 1.5 kilometres of roadway from Four Paths to Osbourne Store in Clarendon, which was extensively damaged from the flood rains associated with Hurricane Wilma. "We expect that the motoring public is going to benefit greatly from this level of rehabilitation," said Colin Morrison, Acting Communications Manager at the...