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Cabinet has approved the purchase of four ship-to-shore gantry cranes by the Port Authority of Jamaica for the Kingston Container Terminal. The cranes will be supplied by Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Company Limited and will be financed through the China Ex-Im Bank at a cost of US$20.9 million. Making the announcement at yesterday's (April 19) post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica...

Farmers across the island are benefiting from a training programme in the proper use and maintenance of tractors and other technical equipment hosted by the Agricultural Support Services Project in the Ministry of Agriculture in collaboration with the Ebony Park HEART Academy. The ceremony to officially open the training programme was held yesterday (April 19) at the Ebony Park HEART...

Jamaicans, Rachel Manley and Professor Orlando Patterson will be hosted by the New York Public Library's (NYPL) Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Centre for Scholars and Writers on Wednesday, April 21, at the South Court Auditorium in Midtown Manhattan. Professor Patterson will interview Miss Manley about her work, her family and the politics and culture of Jamaica. Jean Strouse, Director...

A three-day regional symposium on 'Local Democracy and Good Governance in the Caribbean' got under way on Monday (April 19) at the Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort in Montego Bay. The Symposium is being staged under the auspices of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF), a membership organisation bringing together associations of local government, individual councils and ministries of local government...

A new bell has been presented to the Seaside Friends Church at Hectors River in Portland, by Dr. Hugh Norton Duhaney, a past student of Happy Grove High school in the parish, who is currently residing in the United States of America. On Sunday, April 18, a large congregation, including residents of Hectors River and other communities served by the...

Cabinet has approved the purchase of four ship-to-shore gantry cranes by the Port Authority of Jamaica for the Kingston Container Terminal. The cranes will be supplied by Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Company Limited and will be financed through the China Ex-Im Bank at a cost of US$20.9 million. Making the announcement at yesterday's (April 19) post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica...

Farmers across the island are benefiting from a training programme in the proper use and maintenance of tractors and other technical equipment hosted by the Agricultural Support Services Project in the Ministry of Agriculture in collaboration with the Ebony Park HEART Academy. The ceremony to officially open the training programme was held yesterday (April 19) at the Ebony Park HEART...

Jamaicans, Rachel Manley and Professor Orlando Patterson will be hosted by the New York Public Library's (NYPL) Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Centre for Scholars and Writers on Wednesday, April 21, at the South Court Auditorium in Midtown Manhattan. Professor Patterson will interview Miss Manley about her work, her family and the politics and culture of Jamaica. Jean Strouse, Director...

A three-day regional symposium on 'Local Democracy and Good Governance in the Caribbean' got under way on Monday (April 19) at the Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort in Montego Bay. The Symposium is being staged under the auspices of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF), a membership organisation bringing together associations of local government, individual councils and ministries of local government...

A new bell has been presented to the Seaside Friends Church at Hectors River in Portland, by Dr. Hugh Norton Duhaney, a past student of Happy Grove High school in the parish, who is currently residing in the United States of America. On Sunday, April 18, a large congregation, including residents of Hectors River and other communities served by the...

Minister of Local Government, Community Development and Sport, Portia Simpson Miller, has said that central government no matter how decentralized, could not deliver on the multitude of non standardized services being demanded by citizens or directly help needy people in towns, communities and rural areas to achieve sustainable livelihood. "We want to assure you that this government is deeply committed...

Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister, K.D. Knight, will head a delegation to Barbados for the Seventh Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), to be held from April 22 to 23. Information Minister, Senator Burchell Whiteman made the announcement at yesterday's (April 19) post Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House.He informed...