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Work will continue on the phasing out of ozone depleting substances, through funding of $3 million which has been allocated to the Montreal Protocol for the Phasing Out of Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS), in the Ministry of Land and Environment. The sum, which has been set aside in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives, will...

Dr. Bertram Melbourne, a local Jamaican academic and priest, has been appointed to the newly constituted District of Columbia Commission on Caribbean Community Affairs by Mayor of the City of Washington, D.C. The recent announcement marks a new thrust on the part of Mayor Anthony Williams to reach out to the Caribbean community in the Washington metropolitan area. Mayor Williams...

Approximately 5,000 rural residents are expected to benefit from improved water supplies under the Government of Jamaica and Inter American Development Bank-funded Rural Water Supply Project. This is contained in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure now before the House of Representatives.A sum of $126 million has been allocated for the project this fiscal year and the money will facilitate the...

A sum of $63.2 million has been allocated to the Ridge to Reef Watershed Project in the Ministry of Land and Environment to continue watershed monitoring protocols, address compliance and enforcement issues, and maintain the watershed management plan and strategy. The funds, which have been set aside in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure now before the House of Representatives will...

A sum of $72.5 million has been earmarked for the Agricultural Support Services Project (ASSP) in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure, which was tabled in the House of Representatives on March 31. The allotment is expected to strengthen the delivery of the Agri-Support Services for Producers, which entails the market study on ornamental horticulture to be conducted by the Databank...

The Ministry of Commerce, Science and Technology's Agro Industrial Development Project has been allotted $10.7 million in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure now before the House of Representatives. This allocation will go towards finalizing standardization studies and the validation of protocols; the hosting of workshops for community groups for the establishment and maintenance of experimental cultivation crops with assistance from...

The Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI) has provided some $1.8 million to fund a cassava project, which will benefit over 100 farmers in St. Catherine. The project was launched on Tuesday (March 30) at a ceremony held at the Rural Agricultural Development Authority's (RADA) St. Catherine Parish office in Linstead. Farmers in St. Catherine and officials from RADA, the JBI, the...

The Sustainable Fisheries Management project in the Ministry of Agriculture has been allocated $3 million to carry out necessary work during the new fiscal year. As stated in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives, the funds will see to the institutional strengthening of the Fisheries Division, which entail a review of the existing legislative mandate...

Vere Technical High School in Clarendon copped the top awards in the 4-H Parish Achievement Day competitions held on Wednesday (March 31), at the Knox Community College Campus in May Pen. Students of the school walked away with first place prizes in eight different categories including Goat and Care Management, Selection and Grading of Vegetables, Budding and Grafting, Application and...

With the highest road accident rate per capita in the Caribbean, the Jamaican government is taking steps to reduce accident fatalities across the island by 25 per cent within the next five years. As part of efforts to tackle the problem, the National Road Safety Policy, which was adopted by Cabinet on Monday, March 24, will be launched on April...

The Coastal Water Quality Improvement Project in the Ministry of Land and Environment is to receive $26.4 million to, among other things, develop small scale sanitation technologies, strengthen management capability of national and local level coordinators and implement an organisational capacity building strategy as well as develop national water quality standards. The sum, which has been allocated in the 2004/05...

The guidance and counselling department of the Albert Town Primary School in Trelawny, will be hosting a family exposition at the school on Wednesday, April 7 under the theme, 'Families in Action for the 21st Century'. The day's event will begin with a launching ceremony at 9:00 a.m. with guest speaker Victor Wright, who is a retired teacher. Guidance Counsellor...