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Beneficiaries of the Programme for Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) will this month see an increase in their allowances under the scheme. Senator Floyd Morris, State Minister in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security with special responsibility for the Programme, told JIS News in an interview, that the increases would see an additional $100 be added to the...

A new variety of pumpkin known as the 'Bodles Globular' was presented to farmers at a field day hosted by the Crop and Plant Protection Research Unit in the Ministry of Agriculture to showcase improved technologies for commercial pumpkin production. The field day was held on Tuesday (April 20) at the Bodles Agricultural Research Station in Old Harbour, St. Catherine....

The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) will begin work soon on a number of construction and environmental projects in the parish of St. James. General Manager of the UDC, Marjorie Campbell, said plans were in place to build a convention centre in Montego Bay as well as a residential sub-division in the community of Success, Rose Hall. Mrs. Campbell made the...

Opposition Spokesman on Finance, Audley Shaw has proposed an increase in expenditure for critical areas of the 2004/05 Budget, which was presented by Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. Omar Davies last week at Gordon House. Mr. Shaw, while calling for increased expenditure in vital areas also urged the government to slash its consultants' bill and to implement other cost-saving measures....

Beneficiaries of the Programme for Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) will this month see an increase in their allowances under the scheme. Senator Floyd Morris, State Minister in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security with special responsibility for the Programme, told JIS News in an interview, that the increases would see an additional $100 be added to the...

A new variety of pumpkin known as the 'Bodles Globular' was presented to farmers at a field day hosted by the Crop and Plant Protection Research Unit in the Ministry of Agriculture to showcase improved technologies for commercial pumpkin production. The field day was held on Tuesday (April 20) at the Bodles Agricultural Research Station in Old Harbour, St. Catherine....

The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) will begin work soon on a number of construction and environmental projects in the parish of St. James. General Manager of the UDC, Marjorie Campbell, said plans were in place to build a convention centre in Montego Bay as well as a residential sub-division in the community of Success, Rose Hall. Mrs. Campbell made the...

Opposition Spokesman on Finance, Audley Shaw has proposed an increase in expenditure for critical areas of the 2004/05 Budget, which was presented by Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. Omar Davies last week at Gordon House. Mr. Shaw, while calling for increased expenditure in vital areas also urged the government to slash its consultants' bill and to implement other cost-saving measures....

Industry and Tourism Minister, Aloun Ndombet-Assamaba has said in order to effectively combat poverty in Jamaica, there is a need to look beyond the traditional charity approach. "We need to do this because we have seen instances where the phrase, "nutten nah gwaan fi mi" is being so often repeated that it becomes accepted as a permanent way of life...

The 2004 Commonwealth Local Government Handbook, which has been described as 'the only comprehensive wide-ranging and extraordinary study of local government systems that exist', was officially launched on Tuesday April 19 by Minister of Local Government, Community Development and Sport, Portia Simpson Miller and Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF) Chairperson, Ponts'o Susan Sekatle, at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. The third...

Minister of Justice and Attorney General, A. J. Nicholson has commended the members of the Lay Magistrates Association of Jamaica (LMAJ) for the fine work done over the years. He was speaking recently in Santa Cruz at a special church service to mark the Association's 19 years of service. "For Justices of the Peace the finest gift that you can...

Water and Housing Minister, Donald Buchanan has sought to clarify the perception that user fees are taxes. "User fees cannot be considered to be taxes. There is an important distinction between the two," he pointed out. The Minister explained that taxes are applied across the board and go directly into the Consolidated Fund, while user fees benefit persons directly, as...