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A cave survey to formally classify and evaluate over 70 caves within the Cockpit Country ring-road, is currently underway. Funded at an estimated cost of $500,000 by The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the survey is being carried out by the Jamaican Caves Organisation (JCO) and will be completed by May 22. Kimberly John, Freshwater Conservation Specialist with TNC told JIS News...

A cave survey to formally classify and evaluate over 70 caves within the Cockpit Country ring-road, is currently underway. Funded at an estimated cost of $500,000 by The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the survey is being carried out by the Jamaican Caves Organisation (JCO) and will be completed by May 22. Kimberly John, Freshwater Conservation Specialist with TNC told JIS News...

State Minister for Education, Youth and Culture, Dr. Donald Rhodd is appealing to Jamaicans to get involved in Labour Day activities in their communities, as they would benefit from the various projects. The State Minister told JIS News that he was concerned with the level of voluntarism in some communities, and observed that to date, the registration of projects has...

Fifteen Labour Day projects have so far been registered with the Hanover Labour Day Planning Committee. At a meeting of the committee on May 4, at the Hanover Parish Council offices, it was also announced that the Hanover Labour Day Parish Project would be the refurbishing of sanitary facilities at the Mt. Hannah, Clifton, Pondside and Bamboo Missionary Basic Schools....

President of the University of Technology (UTech), Dr. Rae Davis has underscored the need for Jamaica to transform its education system, to make it world class, and fully responsive to the realities of the global community. Giving the main address at a Teachers' Day luncheon, held at the Old Port Antonio Marina in Portland on May 4, Dr. Davis said...

State Minister for Education, Youth and Culture, Dr. Donald Rhodd is appealing to Jamaicans to get involved in Labour Day activities in their communities, as they would benefit from the various projects. The State Minister told JIS News that he was concerned with the level of voluntarism in some communities, and observed that to date, the registration of projects has...

Fifteen Labour Day projects have so far been registered with the Hanover Labour Day Planning Committee. At a meeting of the committee on May 4, at the Hanover Parish Council offices, it was also announced that the Hanover Labour Day Parish Project would be the refurbishing of sanitary facilities at the Mt. Hannah, Clifton, Pondside and Bamboo Missionary Basic Schools....

President of the University of Technology (UTech), Dr. Rae Davis has underscored the need for Jamaica to transform its education system, to make it world class, and fully responsive to the realities of the global community. Giving the main address at a Teachers' Day luncheon, held at the Old Port Antonio Marina in Portland on May 4, Dr. Davis said...

The National HIV/STI Control Programme will host a series of island wide consultations over the next four-weeks to provide information about government policy regarding HIV/AIDS and to generate feedback. Policy Technical Officer of the National HIV/STI Control Programme, Faith Hamer, told JIS News that four consultations are to be held in the parishes of Kingston, St. Catherine, Manchester and St....

The National HIV/STI Control Programme will host a series of island wide consultations over the next four-weeks to provide information about government policy regarding HIV/AIDS and to generate feedback. Policy Technical Officer of the National HIV/STI Control Programme, Faith Hamer, told JIS News that four consultations are to be held in the parishes of Kingston, St. Catherine, Manchester and St....

Carmen Griffith, Executive Director of Construction Resource Development Centre (CRDC) is urging persons to refrain from the practice of open defecation and to instead install proper toilet or waste disposal facilities to curb the spread of harmful diseases. She said that one gram of faeces can contain 10 million viruses, one million bacteria, one thousand parasite cysts, and a hundred...

Peter Knight, Director of the Environmental Health Unit in the Ministry of Health, has challenged communities to devise strategies to reduce the risk of water-borne diseases, which caused millions of illnesses and deaths worldwide annually. Mr. Knight, who was addressing the recently held Water and Sanitation Conference in Trelawny, said that one simple strategy that residents could undertake, was to...