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Thirty officers from the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) have completed a two-week course on techniques in systematic search procedures, using detection equipment. Certificates were presented to the officers on Friday, (July 1) at a graduation ceremony held at the Caribbean Search Centre (CSC) at the Jamaica Police Academy in Twickenham Park, St. Catherine. Gifts were also presented to Corporal...

The Senate on Friday (July 1) gave its approval to a Bill to make special provisions for cadastral mapping, tenure clarification and land registration in specified areas. Information Minister Senator Burchell Whiteman who piloted the Bill said the provision was enabling legislation for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Government of Jamaica (GoJ) funded Land Administration and Management Programme (LAMP) and...

Minister of Transport and Works, Robert Pickersgill is threatening more stringent action against utility companies, which continue to undo and ruin roadwork completed by the National Works Agency (NWA). "We will be watching very carefully the operations of these utility companies when they operate either on the road surface or on the embankments or sides of the roads," he said....

Executive Director of the Financial Services Commission (FSC), Brian Wynter, has urged professionals in the securities market to protect investors by ensuring that unethical occurrences were kept at an absolute minimum. Mr. Wynter was speaking about best practices in the industry at a market manipulation and insider trading conference held on June 29 at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, where he...

The Annotto Bay police station in St. Mary has benefited from extensive refurbishing work at a cost of $5 million, through the collaborative efforts of a number of private sector companies. The work was spearheaded by the Friends of Annotto Bay, and comprised the Insurance Company of the West Indies (ICWI), the National Commercial Bank, Jamaica Producers Protection and Security...

Local Government, Community Development and Sport Minister, Portia Simpson Miller has said that creative ways of engaging people at the community level must be found if nations were to succeed in combating the HIV/AIDS scourge. Mrs. Simpson Miller was making her presentation at a City AIDS Breakfast launch hosted by the Atlanta International Training Centre for Local Authorities (CIFAL), in...

The Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) will be launching its second Internet caf

The National Works Agency (NWA) will begin constructing a new Yallahs Bridge in St. Thomas next year, Chief Executive Officer of the NWA, Ivan Anderson, has said. "Design work is underway. We have just completed the soil investigations in the river to establish the bearing capacity and the foundation.for the bridge. We expect that early next year, we'll see the...

The Ministry of Transport and Works, through the efforts of the National Works Agency (NWA) will soon implement a Disaster Mitigation Programme to continue the cleaning of drains and gullies in critical flood-prone areas island wide. This announcement came from Minister of Transport and Works, Robert Pickersgill, who was speaking at a recent press conference at his Maxfield Avenue offices....

A number of activities have been planned by the Portland 4H Clubs in celebration of the 66th anniversary of the 4H Clubs movement in Jamaica.The activities which are being planned by the Portland 4H Advisory Council will be held as part of events to be conducted across the country in observance of the occasion. Clinton Brown, Parish Development Officer for...

The National Works Agency (NWA) has terminated the services of the contractor building the new Serge Island Bridge in St. Thomas. "We have had some delays with the contractor and he has been placed on notice of termination. We expect that over the next two weeks we will have an alternative contractor in place," revealed Chief Executive Officer of the...

Police officers are being pelted with wooden chips, water bombed and subjected to continuous verbal abuse. Shouts of 'babylon' and 'we want justice' permeate the air. The crowd advances. The police remain calm but take evasive action, while trying to bring the situation back under control. No, this is not a hostile encounter between residents and members of the police...