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The Hanover Parish Council is moving to ease the hardships being experienced by some residents in the parish by trucking water to the areas most affected by drought. Secretary/Manager of that Parish Council, Alfred Graham, said that to date, more than $700,000 had been spent by the Council to truck water to some of the worst affected areas, and there...

The Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) will be seeking to increase the fine for urinating in a public place from the current $1,000 to $20,000 to dissuade persons from carrying out such acts and to use sanitary public conveniences. Mayor of Kingston Councillor Desmond McKenzie made the disclosure on Tuesday (April 13) during the KSAC's monthly press briefing at...

Farmers in St. Catherine are now utilising a tractor for land preparation at a subsidised cost. The unit was recently assigned to the Jamaica Agricultural Society's (JAS) parish office in St. Catherine. The vehicle is one of six under the JAS Tractor Tillage Service, which was handed over to the JAS by the Development Bank of Jamaica through the Ministry...

Mayor of Kingston Councillor Desmond McKenzie issued a stern warning to operators of illegal roadside garages on Tuesday (April 13), that the Council would within the next two weeks commence operations to shut down such operations. He was speaking at the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation's (KSAC) monthly press briefing at its Church Street offices. The Mayor informed that the...

Plans for a major overhaul of the May Pen Cemetery have received a further boost as the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) was on Tuesday (April 13) presented with a cheque of $250,000 by Life of Jamaica Limited (LoJ) toward that project. The donation is the first in a series of contributions from that corporate body. Speaking at the...

The Hanover Parish Council is moving to ease the hardships being experienced by some residents in the parish by trucking water to the areas most affected by drought. Secretary/Manager of that Parish Council, Alfred Graham, said that to date, more than $700,000 had been spent by the Council to truck water to some of the worst affected areas, and there...

The Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) will be seeking to increase the fine for urinating in a public place from the current $1,000 to $20,000 to dissuade persons from carrying out such acts and to use sanitary public conveniences. Mayor of Kingston Councillor Desmond McKenzie made the disclosure on Tuesday (April 13) during the KSAC's monthly press briefing at...

Farmers in St. Catherine are now utilising a tractor for land preparation at a subsidised cost. The unit was recently assigned to the Jamaica Agricultural Society's (JAS) parish office in St. Catherine. The vehicle is one of six under the JAS Tractor Tillage Service, which was handed over to the JAS by the Development Bank of Jamaica through the Ministry...

Mayor of Kingston Councillor Desmond McKenzie issued a stern warning to operators of illegal roadside garages on Tuesday (April 13), that the Council would within the next two weeks commence operations to shut down such operations. He was speaking at the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation's (KSAC) monthly press briefing at its Church Street offices. The Mayor informed that the...

Plans for a major overhaul of the May Pen Cemetery have received a further boost as the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) was on Tuesday (April 13) presented with a cheque of $250,000 by Life of Jamaica Limited (LoJ) toward that project. The donation is the first in a series of contributions from that corporate body. Speaking at the...

Information Minister, Senator Burchell Whiteman, has said that despite resource constraints, the provision of essential services would not be compromised and assured the trade unions that the agreement arrived at in the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), concerning the protection of public sector jobs, would not be breached. "All ministries have had to undertake a very careful management of their recurrent...

Cabinet on Tuesday (April 13) approved the compulsory acquisition of lands in Kingston and St. James for the provision of additional housing solutions for Jamaicans. In Kingston, property located on Spanish Town Road will be obtained for the construction of 216 housing units by the National Housing Trust (NHT) as part of its Inner City Housing Project. The Commissioner of...