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On September 5, some 35 young men will begin training to join the ranks of one of the most elite security forces in the country - the Port Security Corps. Speaking with JIS News, Lorri-Ann Nicholas, Human Resources Manager at the Port Security Corps disclosed that this batch of recruits would be the third set of recruits to be trained...

In trying to play its part in reducing violence in schools, the Westmoreland Health Department (WHD) has been carrying out a series of training seminars for teachers and students in selected schools across that parish. Eight students from the New Hope Primary and Junior High School, located in the Whitehouse area of the parish, were exposed to a four-day training...

The 11th staging of Western Expo is scheduled for October 7 to 9, at the Cruise Ship Terminal, Montego Freeport, St. James. A project of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the annual event is aimed at providing a platform for the showcasing of goods and services, and to promote the growth and development of trade and commerce...

Residents of Ocho Rios and surrounding communities in St. Ann, are to benefit from a series of disaster awareness sensitization sessions, organised by the Ocho Rios Zone Disaster Preparedness Committee. The meetings, which will begin on Wednesday (Sept. 7) in the community of Parry Town, are being held in collaboration with the Jamaica Information Service (JIS). Other targeted communities are...

Officials of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) along with Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade and Member of Parliament for East Central St. Catherine, K.D. Knight yesterday (August 31) handed over two Nubian goats to farmers of Waterloo Villas in St. Catherine as part of a RADA training programme in husbandry and goat management. RADA Parish Agricultural Manager,...

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is encouraging disabled persons to acquire their specially designed identification cards in order to benefit from the concessionary fare available to them. Disabled persons, school children and the elderly pay a concessionary fare of $15. However Jackie Darwood, Manager of Depot Operations at the JUTC informed JIS News that since not all disabilities were...

The first of four stakeholder consultations to give micro and small business operators in Kingston, Portmore and surrounding communities an opportunity to get vital information on how to access credit, was held at the Portmore HEART Academy on August 29. Michelle Scott, Chairman of the Research Committee, a sub-committee of the National Organizing Committee of the International Year of Micro...

Chief Executive Officer of the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund, W. 'Billy' Heaven has reported that the Fund has disbursed some $965 million to several projects, since its inception three years ago. In regard to the Fund's focus on the health sector, Mr. Heaven said to date, CHASE has given its approval to 80 projects valued at...

Minister of Health, John Junor has lauded the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund for helping the country's health sector, rendering well needed financial assistance to health-related projects and programmes. "In its three years, CHASE has made a significant impact and made a marked difference in the lives and work of individuals and groups," Minister Junor said, noting...

Minister of National Security, Dr. Peter Phillips, has called on Jamaicans, to place focus on protecting the family unit, as the government continued to bring awareness to and fight against the increasingly dangerous phenomena of human trafficking. Speaking at a public forum entitled: 'Trafficking in Persons- Get Slick, Don't Get Tricked' at Emancipation Park yesterday (August 30), Minister Phillips noted...

Ask Roy Kennedy, a 65-year old life-time tenant farmer from Manchester what it is like to be actively engaged in agriculture and he will say "it is a very trying profession, subject to many hardships, but at times it can have some really good rewards". Mr. Kennedy has quite successfully grown a wide range of medium and short-term crops on...

The approximately US$1.2 billion Jamalco expansion programme, which kicked off in May and which will last for 30 months, doubling production capacity, is a testimony to the calibre of the alumina company's management and workers. The reason Alcoa, Jamalco's US-based parent company, decided to make the most substantial single foreign investment ever made in Jamaica is due to the achievements...