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Four-year old Ruel Brown, a student of the Lluidasvale Basic School in St. Catherine, received free medical check up and medicine for his cold at a health fair day held at the school recently. Jacqueline Brown, Ruel's mother, who accompanied him to the health day, said she was happy that her son was able to see a doctor, since he...

Efforts by the Ministry of Justice to bring further improvement to the system of court administration in the country will be advanced with a one-week training programme, scheduled to begin on Monday, June 6, 2005 at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Hotel, Ocho Rios, St. Ann. The seminar, which was designed specifically for the Court Administrators will address a range of...

Efforts by the Ministry of Justice to bring further improvement to the system of court administration in the country will be advanced with a one-week training programme, scheduled to begin on Monday, June 6, 2005 at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Hotel, Ocho Rios, St. Ann. The seminar, which was designed specifically for the Court Administrators will address a range of...

In order to facilitate increased broadband access, the Jamaican Government is moving to unlicence certain segments of the spectrum to make it freely available. This will see the 2.4GHZ and 5.7GH and 902-908 MHZ spectrum bands being removed from licensing, to enable wireless Internet access and new technologies such as Wifi and WiMax to businesses. Commerce, Science and Technology Minister,...

The Ministry of Health is concerned that there might be renewed interest in backyard smelting operations, which could see persons melting used lead acid batteries to build new batteries to sell. This concern is rooted in the fact that smelting operations have been long associated with lead poisoning, especially in children. Last year there were five cases of lead poisoning...

The National Advisory Council on Local Government Reform, which was convened last year to facilitate the process of re-organizing local authorities, is expected to complete its report by the end of June for discussion with stakeholders in July. Local Government, Community Development and Sport Minister, Portia-Simpson Miller, in her contribution to the 2005/06 Sectoral Debate in Gordon House recently, said...

The Institute of Sports (INSPORT) has signed a partnership with their Cuban counterparts, for the exchange of coaches to teach various sporting disciplines in the two countries. Minister of Local Government, Community Development and Sport, Portia Simpson-Miller, made the announcement in her contribution to the 2005/2006 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives recently. She informed that Cuba would assist...

The Electricity Division of the Ministry of Commerce, Science and Technology is to network its offices, so that a single database can be created to facilitate the submission of requests from any office of the division. This new feature will be implemented irrespective of the location of the installation. The process will commence with the construction of a local area...

A two-day international conference, to guide the government efforts in redesigning the country's constituency boundaries, got underway yesterday (June 2) at the Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort in Montego Bay. The conference is being hosted by the Electoral Advisory Committee (EAC) and includes participants from Canada, India, and other Caribbean territories as well as representatives from the International Federation of Electoral...

In order to facilitate increased broadband access, the Jamaican Government is moving to unlicence certain segments of the spectrum to make it freely available. This will see the 2.4GHZ and 5.7GH and 902-908 MHZ spectrum bands being removed from licensing, to enable wireless Internet access and new technologies such as Wifi and WiMax to businesses. Commerce, Science and Technology Minister,...

The Ministry of Health is concerned that there might be renewed interest in backyard smelting operations, which could see persons melting used lead acid batteries to build new batteries to sell. This concern is rooted in the fact that smelting operations have been long associated with lead poisoning, especially in children. Last year there were five cases of lead poisoning...

The National Advisory Council on Local Government Reform, which was convened last year to facilitate the process of re-organizing local authorities, is expected to complete its report by the end of June for discussion with stakeholders in July. Local Government, Community Development and Sport Minister, Portia-Simpson Miller, in her contribution to the 2005/06 Sectoral Debate in Gordon House recently, said...