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The first sitting of the Portmore Municipal Court was held yesterday(July 21), at the Portmore Family Court building in Greater Portmore, St. Catherine. Thirteen cases were presented to the presiding Judge, Resident Magistrate Simone Maddix, for offences ranging from building breaches to illegal garages and car washes. "It's a start, a good move and it will facilitate us getting our...

The Ministry of Local Government, Community Development and Sport is exploring cost-effective ways of training the firemen and women of the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB). "It will cost approximately $1 million to have each person trained in London and so the possibility of having the trainers flown into the island and for us to do the training here are options...

Minister of State for Transport and Works, Dr. Fenton Ferguson, has given the assurance, that work on the railway bridge in St. Margaret's Bay, Portland, which is being repaired to be used as an alternative to the hurricane-damaged Rio Grande overpass, will be completed by the end of this month. The repairs, which began on Thursday (July 14), is being...

Forty-eight groups of farmers in St. Elizabeth and approximately 60 groups from Manchester, are looking forward to the Denbigh Agricultural and Industrial Show, to be held from July 30 to August 1. "St. Elizabeth is gearing up for Denbigh.. looking forward to putting out the best display we can," Second Vice President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Kingsley Clarke...

Judging in the Young Champion Farmer Competition has been completed and the adjudicators are now meeting to collate their points to decide on the winner. Derrick Vermont, Chairman of the National Champion Farmer Competition, told JIS News, that the winner would be announced and garlanded on July 30, the first day of the Denbigh Agricultural and Industrial Show. That day...

The best of the country's livestock will be on display at the 53rd staging of the Denbigh Agricultural and Industrial Show to be held at the Denbigh Showgrounds, Clarendon, from July 30 to August 1. Jasmin Holness, Deputy Director of Research in the Ministry of Agriculture and Chairman of the Denbigh Livestock Exhibits Committee, told JIS News that the competition...

Residents of Santa Cruz, St. Elizabeth can now conduct business more efficiently in their new state of the art post office. The official opening of the post office, held recently, saw scores of residents attending. Guest Speaker at the opening, Minister of Commerce, Science and Technology, Phillip Paulwell, told the residents that "the traditional post office is dying" and that...

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. K.D. Knight opened Jamaica's Embassy to the People's Republic of China in a ceremony at the new Chancery at the Jianwai Diplomatic Compound in Beijing on Monday, 18th July. Speaking at the function, Minister Knight described the establishment of the embassy as a historic milestone in Jamaica-China relations building on the foundation...

Members of staff at the Gibraltar All-Age School in St. Ann have embarked on a project to enhance the performance of those students who were unable to secure a place in the traditional high schools. "Every semester we do a project on any subject area from the curriculum and this year we decide to focus on lines, shapes and colours,"...

The advancement of regional agricultural sectors through the use of innovations in science and technology, is the main agenda item at the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and National Commission on Science and Technology (NCST)-organised workshop, now underway at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston. The workshop, which is being conducted under the theme: 'Analyzing the Agricultural,...

The National Works Agency (NWA) is rehabilitating the old rail bridge in Port Antonio to serve as a replacement for the Rio Grande overpass, which is out of use due to damage caused by Hurricane Dennis. The Rio Grande Bridge links Port Antonio to the rest of Eastern Portland and is the main access route between the parish and a...

The Sam Sharpe Teachers' College in Granville, St. James, is celebrating 30 years of service to education this year, and to mark this milestone, the college will host its first past students re-union on campus from August 4 to 7. Graduates of the college from 1978, both in Jamaica and in different countries of the world, will be coming together...