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Jamaicans and other overseas nationals who require visas to travel to the United Kingdom will start paying more as of July 1, 2005. A release from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in London said the fee for a six-month visit visa would increase from

Minister of Local Government, Community Development and Sport, Portia Simpson-Miller will deliver the keynote address at the 21st annual awards banquet of the Jamaica National Movement (JNM), on Saturday, June 18, at Dante's Catering Hall in New York. Founded in 1984, the JNM is a community based organization dedicated to mobilizing Jamaican nationals domiciled in the northeast USA to support...

Member of Parliament for South Central St. Catherine, Sharon Haye-Webster, has said that the survey of parcels of land in the Windsor Heights community in Central Village, St. Catherine, would be completed by year-end for handing over of titles in 2006. The process, she said, would ensure security of tenure for close to 12,000 occupants, some of whom have lived...

Member of Parliament for Western St. Mary, Dr. Neil McGill has said that the implementation of housing and water supply projects in his constituency, had greatly improved the quality of life of the citizens. He said people in the area were grateful for the Social Housing Programme (modalities One and Two), which had enabled more than 100 persons to benefit...

Prime Minister P.J. Patterson left the island on June 9 for Doha, Qatar where he will Chair the Second South Summit of the G-77 and China between June 12 and 16th. The Summit will focus principally on issues of concern to developing countries in particular those relating to trade, globalisation, poverty, hunger and development. In light of discussions on the...

Prime Minister P.J. Patterson left the island on June 9 for Doha, Qatar where he will Chair the Second South Summit of the G-77 and China between June 12 and 16th. The Summit will focus principally on issues of concern to developing countries in particular those relating to trade, globalisation, poverty, hunger and development. In light of discussions on the...

A Bill to make special provisions for Cadastral Mapping and Tenure Clarification for the registration of titles in specified areas is now before the Lower House for consideration. Land and Environment Minister Dean Peart, who tabled the legislation yesterday (June 8), said that the Bill would enable the implementation of the National Land Policy, which provides for the establishment of...

Member of Parliament for North Western St. Elizabeth, J.C. Hutchinson has suggested that the Ministry of Agriculture should immediately identify persons as verifiers in the event of another national disaster, as this would make the process of verifying loss easier than that which obtained after Hurricane Ivan last year. "These persons should be trained and ready, to go out into...

The Nazareth All-age School in Manchester is to benefit from the annual Maidstone Emancipation fair, which will be held on the school grounds on Monday, August 1. Plans are in high gear for the staging of the event, which is being organised by the Maidstone Community Council (MCC) and the Nazareth All-age Past Students' Association. Activities will include a gospel...

Hundreds of homeowners and builders from the parish of Hanover are to benefit from training clinics on how to build safe homes, to be carried out by the HEART Trust/NTA in collaboration with the Incorporated Masterbuilders Association of Jamaica. Interested persons are being urged to attend the sessions, which will be held in the communities of Johnson Town and Green...

The Government is to spend $23 million to construct a fishing complex at Jamworld on the Dyke Road in Portmore, St. Catherine, to accommodate fish vendors who currently ply their trade on the Portmore Causeway. Dr. Wayne Reid, Managing Director of the National Road Operating Constructing Company (NROCC), informed JIS News that due to a "multiplicity of factors", including the...

With statistics from the Police Traffic Division indicating an increase in fatal traffic accidents since the start of the year, Executive Director of the National Road Safety Council, Paula Fletcher, is appealing to motorists to exercise greater care as they use the nation's roadways. Mrs. Fletcher, who was speaking at the launch of the National Road Safety Campaign on June...