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The World Federation of Consuls will on Thursday (Dec. 2) confer its highest honour, the FICAC-STAR in GOLD Award on Prime Minister the Most Hon. P.J. Patterson at a function to be held at the Hilton Kingston Hotel. Mr. Patterson will also receive the Lignum Vitae Award, which is the highest award of the Consular Corps of Jamaica. Mr. Patterson...

Zonal Director for the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), Trevor Martin, has said that Jamaicans should be seeing more locally grown agricultural products on supermarket shelves across the island by the time the Christmas holidays arrive. He was speaking to JIS News during a tour of the parishes of Manchester and St. Elizabeth, which was organised by Agrograce and the...

Minister of Industry and Tourism, Aloun Ndombet-Assamba, has called for increased investment in industry, noting that the government had laid the groundwork to ensure that persons investing in the country could make profitable returns. The Minister's comments came during her address at the opening of the Kamit Revisited Boutique in Little Premier Plaza on November 24. The boutique is a...

A Bill to amend the Offences Against the Person Act was passed in the Senate last Friday (Nov. 26) to remove the mandatory death sentence for capital murder. Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Senator A. J. Nicholson, who piloted the legislation, which was passed with two amendments, explained that the intention was not to abolish the death penalty but...

The Government, through the Inner City Housing Project (ICHP), is seeking to bring some order to the housing situation in Southside and Tel Aviv in Parade Gardens. The challenge, though, according to Maurice Anderson, Director of the Inner City Housing Project, is that the area is congested and the project officers are having a hard time finding "significant open spaces"...

Lands being registered are advertised in the daily newspapers weekly so that if someone has applied to register land that another individual owns or has some interest in, a caveat could be lodged, said Joan Walker, Legal Officer at the National Land Agency. A caveat is a form of injunction provided for under the Registration of Titles Act, and "anyone...

Fifty-years ago, the Kingston Race Course (now National Heroes Park) was "sold" to an unsuspecting gentleman from rural Jamaica. This gentleman, excited to have bought the prime piece of property at a bargain price, left his rural community, donkey in tow, to claim ownership of his newly acquired asset. There was only one problem though. The property was government-owned and...

Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has announced that the signing of the Agreement to bring the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) into being between Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago as of January 2005 will take place in Bridgetown, Barbados on January 5. Mr. Patterson made the disclosure on Friday (Nov. 26) while addressing the official launch of a book...

President of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), Wentworth Gabbidon, has emphasised the need for all sectors of the society to combine their efforts to eliminate the problems of indiscipline and violence in schools. Delivering the main address at the annual graduation ceremony of the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE), at Passley Gardens in Portland on November 25, Mr....

Supreme Ventures Limited (SVL), one of the major sponsors of the Culture, Health, Arts, Sport and Education (CHASE) Fund, has launched a billboard campaign to generate awareness of the various projects, which are being implemented by the Fund. The campaign, which is slated to last for a year at a cost of $20 million, will see several billboards dotting the...

The advent of the Christmas season typically brings with it, a large number of barrels being shipped to Jamaica and persons taking extra luggage when entering the country. In response to the anticipated rise in importations to Jamaica, the Customs Department has beefed up its personnel, to ensure that incoming cargo is processed speedily at the country's Wharves and Airports....

Youngsters in Mandeville are being invited to take advantage of a skills training programme being offered by the Andrews Memorial United Church through its Operation BEACON project. Project chairman, Marcia Edwards, told JIS News that the training would begin next January and would entail courses in hotel hospitality, basic math and English, sewing as well as manicure and pedicure. "I...