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The National Works Agency (NWA) is urging the motoring public to obey warning and other road signs along the nation's thoroughfares. In an interview with JIS News, Petra-keane Williams, Senior Communication Officer at the NWA said although the agency closed the Sandy River to Macknie (via Rhoden Hall) main road in Clarendon and posted signs to that effect, motorists have...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture, Errol Ennis has urged farmers to register with the Ministry, so the Government could have better knowledge of their practices, and how best to assist them in instances of natural disasters, as is the case with the recent passage of Hurricane Ivan. Mr. Ennis, who was addressing a community meeting with farmers...

Repair work on 2.3 kilometres of roadway between Bath and Beacon Hill in St. Thomas is scheduled to begin by the end of October. The project, to cost some $10 million, will be carried out under the Parish Infrastructure Development Programme (PIDP) of the Ministry of Local Government, Community Development and Sport. Lancelot Comrie, Councillor for the Bath Division, told...

The St. Ann branch of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) is currently assessing the hurricane damage to crops of farmers in the parish, with the objective of helping them to begin replanting. "At present, officers and temporary employees of RADA are out in the fields making assessment of the damage done to the many farms. This assessment will probably...

The extent of damage done to health facilities within the Western Regional Health Authority by Hurricane Ivan has been estimated at some $45 million. The Western Regional Health Authority consists of four Hospitals and 83 other health facilities in the parishes of Trelawny, St. James, Hanover and Westmoreland. Checks have revealed that the four Hospitals along with 34 health facilities...

The Ministry of Commerce, Science and Technology yesterday (October 6) presented a cheque for $5 million to the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) to go towards the Society's Management Information Systems Project. The presentation was made at a post board meeting press conference held at the JAS headquarters on Church Street. President of the JAS, Senator Norman Grant explained that the...

Cable and Wireless Jamaica has made another contribution to the on-going Hurricane relief effort, with the handing over of a generator to the National Blood Transfusion Services on Slipe Pen Road in Kingston, yesterday (October 6). Handing over the unit, President of Cable and Wireless Jamaica, Jacqueline Holding said the donation was another demonstration of the entity's "commitment to active...

More than J$1 million in relief items were given to residents of the Portland Cottage and Rocky Point communities in Southern Clarendon by the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPSCo) and several partners including the Jamaica Energy Partners (JEP), Wakefield Industries, General Paintings and CMK Bakery Limited, as well as private individuals. Four hundred and twenty students from the Portland Cottage...

Minister of Health, John Junor has reported that the estimated cost of direct damage to Jamaica's health sector, caused by Hurricane Ivan, was $232 million, with damage to the infrastructure being $185 million, while equipment damage was $46.8 million. The damage to the sector's infrastructure was reflected by the impact of the hurricane on health facilities, hospitals and health centres,...

Minister of Development, Dr. Paul Robertson emphasized today that the "possibilities for growth and development" associated with Highway 2000, particularly in St. Catherine, were endless. He pointed out that a development plan for lands along the highway corridor has been completed, to further enhance growth in the country. The plan explores possibilities for the sustainable development of the area. It...

Moved by the news of dislocation in many schools, resulting from Hurricane Ivan, students and teachers of the Halling Manor Road High School in Surrey have come together with the City Mission Church and raised

This week an estimated 3,500 residents of St. James, who were in need of health care, received special attention courtesy of the Montego Bay/Atlanta Sister City Health Mission, which was staged at the St. James Methodist Action Centre in Montego Bay from October 4 to 6. With the health fair now in it's 11th year, the health mission consisted of...