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Information Minister, Senator Burchell Whiteman has disclosed that Cabinet has given the go-ahead for a contract to supply and install an automated gate system at the Kingston Container Terminal. The contract, awarded to Science Applications International Corporation, is valued at $124.4 million (US$2.008 million). Addressing journalists yesterday (Oct. 10) at the weekly post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House, Minister Whiteman...

The television studio and control room of the Creative Production and Training Centre (CPTC) in Kingston will soon be outfitted with new equipment valued at $45.9 million (US$741,000). The new equipment comes almost six months after a fire, caused by a short circuit, damaged the studio. Speaking at yesterday's (October 10) post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House, Information Minister, Senator...

Cabinet has approved the award of a development design contract valued at $117.8 million (US$1.9 million), to upgrade the Montego Bay cruise ship terminal. The project is part of the efforts by the Port Authority of Jamaica to add capacity to its terminals. The contract has been awarded to the United States-based company, Mott McDonald. Minister of Information, Senator Burchell...

The Fifth Inter-American Dialogue on Water Management, slated to be held over six days (October 9 - 14) is presently underway at the Half Moon Conference Centre in Montego Bay under the theme "Strengthening local capacity to achieve global challenge". Based on the premise that many countries in the hemisphere still lack the policy, legislative and institutional framework to undertake...

Commerce, Science and Technology Minister, Phillip Paulwell has maintained that the Gulf Reference Price being used to purchase oil was the best system for Jamaica.He noted that while there were different reference prices worldwide, these were normally based on where one sourced the oil, and Jamaica purchased oil in the region because this was the cheapest source. "If we were...

Minister of Commerce, Science and Technology, Phillip Paulwell has called for a concerted effort towards energy conservation, nationally. We have to recognize that for us to survive, for us to be able to live, we have to decide now, once and for all, that our lifestyle will have to be affected to achieve greater energy conservation and greater efficiency," the...

Former Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor Rex Nettleford, will deliver the main address at the second installment of the Caribbean International Network (CIN), lecture series on Thursday, October 20 at the historic Schomburg Centre for Research in Black Culture on Malcolm X Boulevard in Harlem, New York. Professor Nettleford, one of Jamaica's prominent intellectuals,...

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, K.D. Knight has urged administrative professionals to buy into the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), noting that they stood to benefit from the creation of new jobs. "It is envisaged that the CSME will encourage new investment creating new jobs and as such enable our mostly small businesses to take root and...

Government Senator, Keste Miller has resigned from the Senate to take up appointment abroad. Making the announcement during last Friday's (October 7), sitting of the Senate, Leader of Government Business, Burchell Whiteman expressed appreciation for the contributions made by Mr. Miller during his three years in the Upper House. Opposition Senator, Arthur Williams said Mr. Miller was a friend prior...

Jamaican Anita Witter is serving up a Caribbean treat with the launch of her lemon lime and ginger-flavoured rum punch drinks at the Jamaican High Commission in London on Friday (Oct. 7). The new flavours added to the original rum punch, which, along with her company Jewel Isle Productions Limited, was launched last December. Mrs. Witter hopes that the new...

Ground has been broken for the construction of the US$200 million Bahia Principe Resort in St. Ann by Grupo Pinero of Spain. The project, which entails the construction of a 1,918 room hotel and villa, will be undertaken in three phases over a three-year period. Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, who participated in the groundbreaking ceremony at the site in Runaway...

The government of Jamaica will be embarking on a major public education campaign beginning next month, aimed at encouraging increased energy conservation to reduce the country's spiraling oil bill. Commerce, Science and Technology Minister, Phillip Paulwell, told JIS News that the programme was "going to be quite massive" and involve all media, in addition to schools, to get people to...