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More than 12 kilometres of roadway in St. Catherine have been rehabilitated under the Parish Infrastructure Development Programme (PIDP), at a cost of $54 million. The repaired parochial roads include Barnett Road, Pox Home, Kentucky Drive, Valdez Road, Patricia Parkway, Marlie Acres, Mysper Road, Davis Road, and Grants Land. Minister of Local Government, Community Development and Sports, Portia Simpson Miller...

Police personnel at the Brown's Town Police Station, in St. Ann, are now benefiting from an accommodation facility, refurbished at an estimated cost of $5 million. The two-floor facility, comprising a bedroom, bathroom, living room, kitchenette, an evidence room and a carport, which was refurbished by the Apostolic Ark Pentecostal Church of Jamaica, Inc., in collaboration with the business community,...

A sum of $194 million has been allocated in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure for the HIV/AIDS Treatment, Prevention and Control Programme in the Ministry of Health. Funded from a grant for the Global AIDS Fund, the allocation is to strengthen the multi-sector national response to prevent and address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Jamaica. This will be done through scaling...

Prime Minister P.J. Patterson and the Foreign Minister of Canada Mr. Bill Graham, have pledged the cooperation of both countries in helping to restore stability in Haiti. The consensus was reached during a warm and cordial meeting held at the Fairmount Royal York Hotel in Toronto, Canada on Monday, (Apr. 5). Mr. Patterson is in Toronto on an official visit....

The Immigration and Passport Division, more commonly known as the Passport Office, is encouraging Jamaicans who still possess the old blue passports, to apply for renewal over the next 11 months. This will facilitate the phasing out of old passports to the new machine-readable passports, which were introduced in September 2001. Senior Director of Immigration, Citizenship and Passport Services, Carol...

More than 12 kilometres of roadway in St. Catherine have been rehabilitated under the Parish Infrastructure Development Programme (PIDP), at a cost of $54 million. The repaired parochial roads include Barnett Road, Pox Home, Kentucky Drive, Valdez Road, Patricia Parkway, Marlie Acres, Mysper Road, Davis Road, and Grants Land. Minister of Local Government, Community Development and Sports, Portia Simpson Miller...

Police personnel at the Brown's Town Police Station, in St. Ann, are now benefiting from an accommodation facility, refurbished at an estimated cost of $5 million. The two-floor facility, comprising a bedroom, bathroom, living room, kitchenette, an evidence room and a carport, which was refurbished by the Apostolic Ark Pentecostal Church of Jamaica, Inc., in collaboration with the business community,...

A sum of $194 million has been allocated in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure for the HIV/AIDS Treatment, Prevention and Control Programme in the Ministry of Health. Funded from a grant for the Global AIDS Fund, the allocation is to strengthen the multi-sector national response to prevent and address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Jamaica. This will be done through scaling...

Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has urged Jamaicans living in Canada to be a part of the economic growth and development now taking place in the country. Speaking on Monday, (Apr. 5) at a reception hosted by Air Jamaica in celebration of its resumption of service to Toronto, Canada, Mr. Patterson said Jamaica was opened for business and that Jamaicans living...

Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has urged Jamaicans living in Canada to be a part of the economic growth and development now taking place in the country. Speaking on Monday, (Apr. 5) at a reception hosted by Air Jamaica in celebration of its resumption of service to Toronto, Canada, Mr. Patterson said Jamaica was opened for business and that Jamaicans living...

The National Youth Service (NYS) is partnering with the private sector to provide training and employment opportunities to hundreds of young people across Jamaica. Education, Youth and Culture Minister, Maxine Henry Wilson, who made the announcement at the Knox Community College graduation ceremony held recently in Cobbla, Manchester said: "We want to firm up.that partnership with the private sector to...

Work will continue under the Road Rehabilitation Project (Kuwaiti Fund for Arab Economic Development), to upgrade the island's road network through the rehabilitation of 274 kilometres of road sections in 12 parishes across the island. To this end, a sum of $50 million has been set aside in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure now before the House of Representatives to,...