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In its continued effort to transfer and demonstrate the use of "first world technology" to farmers across the island the Scientific Research Council (SRC) is in the process of establishing a special demonstration facility at Devon in Manchester. The project is being conducted in collaboration with the Christiana Potato Growers Cooperative (CPGC), the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) and the...

More than 500 students from the parishes of St. James and Hanover will benefit from the National Youth Service (NYS) Summer Employment programme, set to begin by July 11. Through the programme, students of grades 9, 10 and 11, along with some from the tertiary level, will be recruited and placed in various government and private sector enterprises for periods...

The Spanish Town Hospital and the St. Jago Health Centre in St. Catherine have benefited from some US$28,000 worth of equipment donated by a medical team from Florida. The presentation of the supplies, which include blood pressure and diabetic machines, was made on Friday (June 17) at the health centre. Accepting the gift on behalf of the hospital, Chief Executive...

Donald Miller, Island Coordinator in the Correctional Services Department, is promoting increased use of Community Service Orders (CSO) in the court system, noting that it was a viable sentencing option for first time offenders. "I would also love to see the JPs (Justice of the Peace) utilizing their role in the petty session courts in placing persons on CSO," Mr....

A delegation of Czech geologists is currently in the island as part of on-going bilateral assistance by the Czech Republic, under the Mineral Resource Development Project. The project, which was implemented in 2001 at an initial cost of 7 million crowns (J$329 million), aims to assist the Jamaican government, through the Mines and Geology Division, in identifying and documenting industrial...

In its continued effort to transfer and demonstrate the use of "first world technology" to farmers across the island the Scientific Research Council (SRC) is in the process of establishing a special demonstration facility at Devon in Manchester. The project is being conducted in collaboration with the Christiana Potato Growers Cooperative (CPGC), the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) and the...

More than 500 students from the parishes of St. James and Hanover will benefit from the National Youth Service (NYS) Summer Employment programme, set to begin by July 11. Through the programme, students of grades 9, 10 and 11, along with some from the tertiary level, will be recruited and placed in various government and private sector enterprises for periods...

The Spanish Town Hospital and the St. Jago Health Centre in St. Catherine have benefited from some US$28,000 worth of equipment donated by a medical team from Florida. The presentation of the supplies, which include blood pressure and diabetic machines, was made on Friday (June 17) at the health centre. Accepting the gift on behalf of the hospital, Chief Executive...

Donald Miller, Island Coordinator in the Correctional Services Department, is promoting increased use of Community Service Orders (CSO) in the court system, noting that it was a viable sentencing option for first time offenders. "I would also love to see the JPs (Justice of the Peace) utilizing their role in the petty session courts in placing persons on CSO," Mr....

As society evolves, calls for the Church to assume greater responsibility for more than just the spiritual well-being of its congregation, have become louder. This time around, the church is once again being called on to be an educator on disaster preparedness matters, particularly as June marks the beginning of the hurricane season, and is being observed as Disaster Preparedness...

The mobile unit of the Office of the Registrar of Companies (ORC) is scheduled to conduct a two-day outreach visit to the town of Mandeville in Manchester, beginning on Tuesday, June 28. The venue will be the Golf View Hotel, which is situated on Caledonia Road. Compliance Field Officer with the ORC, Keith Andrade told JIS News that all persons...

As society evolves, calls for the Church to assume greater responsibility for more than just the spiritual well-being of its congregation, have become louder. This time around, the church is once again being called on to be an educator on disaster preparedness matters, particularly as June marks the beginning of the hurricane season, and is being observed as Disaster Preparedness...