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Glowing tributes were paid to late former Parliamentarian, Alva Ross during a Thanksgiving Service for his life, at the Bethel United Church in Highgate, St. Mary on Thursday, November 18. Mr. Ross, who was given an Official Funeral by the Government, served as Parliamentary Secretary, Minister of Public Utilities and Transport, Minister of Local Government, and Speaker of the House...

The Neighbourhood Watch Movement will be staging its 17th annual conference on Saturday, November 20 at the Jamaica Police Academy in Twickenham Park, St. Catherine under the theme, 'Restoring Public Order: A Challenge for Communities'. Head of the Community Relations Department of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, Acting Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Leon Rose, told JIS News that the Neighbourhood...

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Office of National Reconstruction (ONR), Danville Walker; Minister of Agriculture, Roger Clarke and representatives from the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) and Agro Grace, will tour farms in St. Elizabeth and Manchester to observe the extent and pace of the recovery since Hurricane Ivan. The tour takes place next Wednesday, November 24. A similar...

Adele Brown, Acting Chief Education Officer in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture has called on schools, teachers, parents and students to continue giving to the cause of education. Mrs. Brown, who was speaking at the awards ceremony of the Lister Mair Gilby High School for the Deaf off Old Hope Road, encouraged the students not to let anyone...

Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister, K.D. Knight is urging CARICOM nationals to buy into the Caribbean Single Market and Economy, (CSME) noting that the single market was aimed at creating wealth in the region. "The CSME is seeking to create one single economic space among CARICOM states with the free movement of goods, capital, labour, and services," he said.He...

Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. Omar Davies has informed financial crimes investigators, that the proposed money laundering bills now before a Joint Select Committee of Parliament, would allow senior personnel at the Financial Investigations Division to gain access to confidential information about citizens as they carry out their duties. The bills titled An Act to Amend the Money Laundering Act...

Commerce, Science and Technology, Minister Phillip Paulwell, has announced a 44-day amnesty for companies that have not filed annual returns and other documents with the Office of the Registrar of Companies (ORC). Making the announcement at a press briefing at the PCJ building in Kingston this morning (Nov.18), Minister Paulwell said the amnesty, which began today and ends December 31,...

Jamaica's entrepreneurs are being invited to take advantage of business opportunities that will be presented with the country's staging of the Cricket World Cup in 2007. Chief Executive Officer of the Jamaica Business Development Centre (JBDC), Valerie Veira, said that the tournament offered a number of prospects for small businesses and urged persons to seize the many opportunities that would...

Programme Manager at the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) Unit in Barbados, Ivor Caryll, said that the level of preparedness for the implementation of the CSME was very high and expressed confidence that all countries would be ready by the 2005 deadline. "There are really two parts to the CSME and the deadline that we are talking about is...

When the new Companies Act becomes effective in January 2005, operators of mutual fund companies will be able to register their businesses in Jamaica, thereby putting an end to the onerous process of registering their operations overseas. Under the existing company law, Mutual Fund companies are to be registered overseas, as the 1965 Act does not allow for the incorporation...

To assist in the effort to curb the level of violence in the society, particularly among young males, the Ministry of Health, in collaboration with other key agencies, is spearheading the Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA). Launched on November 10 at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, the Alliance is a network of government, non-governmental and community-based organizations, and...

Minister of Agriculture, Roger Clarke will head the list of persons to be honoured by the Goat Breeders' Society of Jamaica for years of service and commitment to the organization. At the group's annual meeting to be held at the Bodles Research Station in St. Catherine on November 24, tribute will also be paid to David Miller, Chief Research Officer...