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On April 3, this year, the spotlight will be turned on high achieving black businesspersons in Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom and outstanding community and youth leaders during the annual Windrush Awards. Although only in its fourth year, the Windrush Awards have become a symbol of excellence in the Midlands. It is organized by the Windrush Employment and Training Consortium....

Minister of Information, Senator Burchell Whiteman has said that the 2004/05 Budget presentation by Minister of Finance and Planning, Dr. Omar Davies scheduled for next month, should reflect a year of economic growth and social stability. "It is a year beginning on the basis of a very important Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). Some hard evidence of investment and good prospects...

State Minister in the Ministry of Finance and Planning, Fitz Jackson has implored employers to foster closer relationships and dialogue with their employees during the period of the recently signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between government and the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions, representing public sector workers. Mr. Jackson fielded questions on details of the MoU at a sensitization seminar...

Jamaica will be hosting the 2004 Commonwealth Local Government Forum High Level Regional Symposium and Board Meeting from April 19 -23 at the Holiday Inn in Montego Bay and at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston, respectively. Minister of Information, Senator Burchell Whiteman said yesterday(March 29), that Cabinet had approved Jamaica's hosting of the events. Speaking at the post-Cabinet press...

In its bid to equip residents in some of Jamaica's poorer communities with the skills to manage and run developmental projects, the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) is conducting community development workshops with a number of community-based organizations. Representatives from Rollington Town in Kingston, Cambridge in St. James, St. Leonard's in Westmoreland and Boston in Portland were among the 60...

On April 3, this year, the spotlight will be turned on high achieving black businesspersons in Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom and outstanding community and youth leaders during the annual Windrush Awards. Although only in its fourth year, the Windrush Awards have become a symbol of excellence in the Midlands. It is organized by the Windrush Employment and Training Consortium....

Island Village and the Ocho Rios/Runaway Bay chapter of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), St. Ann, will be hosting a 5K charity run/walk, on Saturday, April 10, beginning at 7:00 a.m. The event, which will take place in the resort town of Ocho Rios, is aimed at raising funds for two worthwhile charities, Teen Challenge Jamaica, a drug...

Sensitising farmers about the dangers of the Moko disease and the ways to handle it when detected, was the major focus of the Portland Farmers Agricultural Exposition organized by the Portland branch of the Jamaica Agricultural Society and the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) at Folly Oval in Port Antonio on Thursday, March 25. The show was held despite the...

The Governor General, His Excellency The Most Hon. Sir Howard Cooke, will officially open a Museum of Education at the Mico Teachers' College this Wednesday, March 31. A joint effort of the Museums of History and Ethnography, Institute of Jamaica and the Mico College, the facility will house a permanent exhibition entitled, 'Winds of Change: The Evolution of Education in...

Residents of South St. Andrew have begun to realise their dreams for higher education and the opportunity to get jobs to help them live in dignity and secure brighter futures for their children. More than 200 persons from the area including teenagers and men and women 50 years and older, have registered to participate in the Adult Continuing Education (ACE)...

Twenty-six new Justices of the Peace (JPs) were sworn in on Friday, March 26 to serve the parish of St. Mary, at a function held at Beaches Hotel in Boscobel. Presided over by Custos of St. Mary, Hon. A.A. Bobby Pottinger, the function was attended by a wide cross section of persons, including relatives and associates of the new JPs,...

Island Village and the Ocho Rios/Runaway Bay chapter of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), St. Ann, will be hosting a 5K charity run/walk, on Saturday, April 10, beginning at 7:00 a.m. The event, which will take place in the resort town of Ocho Rios, is aimed at raising funds for two worthwhile charities, Teen Challenge Jamaica, a drug...