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A workshop was conducted on January 20 to update company Directors about the new regulations that will govern the formation and operation of a company, when implementation of the new Companies Act takes place on February 1. The workshop was organized by the Office of the Registrar of Companies (ORC) and Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), and held at JAMPRO's offices...

Twenty Jamaicans have been awarded scholarships by the Mexican government to pursue degree programmes at universities in Mexico. Mexican Ambassador, Benito Andion presented 12 of the 20 awardees with their admission letters yesterday (January 21), at the Mexican Embassy in Kingston. Mr. Andion congratulated the awardees and expressed the hope that the programme would produce 20 new ambassadors in the...

Researchers at the University of the West Indies (UWI) are conducting a study into the 'Impact of Early Life Experience on Cardiovascular Risk in Adolescence in Jamaica', as part of efforts to reduce the prevalence of the disease, which accounts for 50 per cent of deaths in Jamaica. Professor Rainford Wilks, lead researcher and Director of the Epidemiology Research Unit,...

Effective Monday, January 24, Jamaicans utilising the services offered by the country's health facilities will be required to pay increased fees for services rendered to them. This was announced today (January 21) by Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Grace Allen-Young. She explained that the increases would enhance income generation for the Ministry, which in turn would be used...

Rural customers of the Registrar General's Department (RGD) will no longer need to journey to Kingston to conduct business, as the agency has spent approximately $7 million to further decentralize its offices, with the opening of three new Regional Offices during the month of January. The first of three, the Eastern Regional Office at 19 West Palm Avenue in Port...

The 5th annual Trench Town festival, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the birth of late reggae icon, Robert Nesta Marley, will be held on Saturday, February 5 at the Vin Lawrence Park in the South St. Andrew community. The event is being organized by the Trench Town Mediators' Association (TTMA) in collaboration with the Trench Town Development Association (TTDA),...

Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has described the government's decision to partner in the renovation and expansion of the Sabina Park cricket ground as a necessary and timely investment in what was not only a sector of traditional importance but one that would allow Jamaica to take advantage of the opportunities that are to be generated from the staging of the...

The United Kingdom (UK) Diaspora will be officially launched on Diaspora Day, June 16. The body will comprise five regional groupings - North, East, West and South Midlands and a London-based group, which is yet to be formed. A 14-member steering committee was appointed last Saturday (Jan.15) to make proposals for the composition of the London group. Delegates at last...

Chief Technical Director in the Ministry of Agriculture, Don McGlashan has stressed that strategies being advocated to transform and reposition the agricultural sector must be underpinned by knowledge-based, efficient production systems on the ground. He noted that if this was not done, the strategies would prove to be useless in advancing the sector as an engine of economic growth and...

'Building Love' was the theme of the annual National Leadership Prayer Breakfast (NLPB) held this morning (Jan. 20) at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, with state and church leaders calling on Jamaicans to come together in unity and peace for the betterment of the country. Dr. Las G. Newman, chairman of the NLPB committee, set the tone of the function by...

A contract has been signed for the construction of a new 100-man police station in Falmouth, Trelawny.National Security Minister, Dr. Peter Phillips speaking at the signing ceremony at the Ministry on Oxford Road in Kingston today (January 20), said work on the facility, which is estimated to cost some $220 million, is set to commence by January 31. It should...

Government spending on hurricane reconstruction projects during the last quarter of 2004 has forced an adjustment of the fiscal target for 2004/05 to about 4.4 per cent, which is just outside the initial 3 to 4 per cent target. Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. Omar Davies, made the announcement as he addressed Mayberry Investment's monthly investment forum held on January...