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Residents of Lucea and adjoining communities in Hanover now have access to a reliable supply of potable water resulting from the commissioning into service of the Great River to Lucea Water Supply Project by Prime Minister P.J. Patterson on Friday (Nov. 19). The project was completed at a cost of 39 Million Euros and within the timeframe specified. In his...

The new St. James/Trelawny commercial office of the National Water Commission (NWC) was opened by Custos of St. James, Clarence Nelson, yesterday (November 19). Established at a cost of $4 million, the office is located on Lower Bevin Avenue, in Montego Bay. The facility will save the NWC some $3 million per year in rental cost. President of the NWC,...

Professor of the Economics of Competition Law at the College of Europe, Dr. William Bishop has argued that the reason companies with monopolistic power sometimes leverage their services from one market to another, had little to do with advancing their monopoly but, more so, with defending it. "The idea is this, a monopoly firm wants to retain its monopoly. It...

Several parochial roads in Portland are scheduled for repair in January 2005, as government continues to improve the country's road network. Approximately 4.6 kilometres of parochial roads will be refurbished under the Parish Infrastructure Development Programme (PIDP). In an interview with JIS News, Bradley Barrett, Superintendent of the Portland Parish Council pointed out that 2.45 kilometres of roads would be...

Farmers islandwide can now breathe a sigh of relief with respect to the safety of their agricultural produce, as the amended Agricultural Produce Act passed recently by the Senate has put tighter penalties in place, with the aim of reducing acts of praedial larceny. Included in the new Act is the provision of a compulsory receipt book system to be...

After more than 14 years of trying to initiate the breeding of Jamaican Iguanas in captivity, the Hope Zoo in Kingston was finally successful in this endeavour on September 28, when four Cyclura Collie or Jamaican Iguanas were hatched. To date, Jamaica is the only country, which has managed to achieve this feat with this specie of Iguana. The Philadelphia...

The Social Development Commission (SDC) will be developing a database of the 780 communities across the island as part of the Integrated Community Development Programme. Robert Bryan, Executive Director of the SDC, told JIS News that already, "database gathering is on-going in all the parishes with St. Catherine being the most advanced, with only 20 communities remaining to collect data...

The Office of National Reconstruction (ONR), in collaboration with the National Youth Service (NYS), and the Jamaica Combined Cadet Force, recently carried out a major clean-up of four beaches along the St. Elizabeth coastline, returning tonnes of seaweed back to the sea. Tracey Hamilton, Communications Liaison in the ONR told JIS News that a combined team of approximately 200 young...

Three hundred and seventeen students and eight teachers at the Spring Gardens Primary and Infant School in Trelawny are now benefiting from new sanitary facilities provided by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) and the parent teachers association at a cost of over $913,000. The new facilities were handed over to the institution on Wednesday, November 17. Speaking at the...

Over 500 students from schools across the length and breadth of Jamaica turned out for the 6th annual Geographic Information Systems (GIS) day exposition, held on November 17 on the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies. The huge turnout was testimony to the growing popularity of the GIS Education in Schools Programme, which was launched in February...

Conservationist and Executive Director of the Caribbean Coastal Area Management Foundation (CCAMF), Peter Espeut has called on the Jamaican community overseas to support ongoing efforts to preserve the island's marine ecology, including wildlife in the Portland Bight Protected Area. "This is the habitat for a variety of wildlife, which are only to be found in Jamaica. Indeed, many of these...

Residents of Summerfield in Clarendon are now better equipped to manage quarry activities within their community having benefited from an education session hosted by the Mines and Geology Division (MGD) yesterday (Nov.18) in the community. The session was part of a series of public awareness meetings being undertaken in communities near the Rio Minho in Clarendon and the Yallahs River...