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The Jamaican Trade Council of Greater Philadelphia (JTCGP) will be officially launched on March 27, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Philadelphia. Jamaica's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, K.D. Knight is expected to deliver the keynote address. In an interview with JIS News, Jamaica's Honorary Consul in Philadelphia, Dr. Alston Meade, who will launch the Council, lauded the...

Kingston has great potential for a very bright future, particularly Downtown Kingston, which offers vast, untapped potential for commercial activity as well as residential accommodation. This view was expressed by, Aubyn Hill, Group Managing Director for the National Commercial Bank and Director of the Kingston City Centre Improvement Company (KCIC), at a general forum at the Hilton Kingston Hotel on...

The University of the West Indies (UWI) has introduced the Grade Point Average (GPA) system to its academic programmes, to bring about greater clarity and definition of the different categories of first degrees awarded by the institution. The GPA, which took effect at the beginning of the 2003/04 academic year, applies to all students entering the institution in that year...

The Kingston and St. Andrew Parish Development Committee (KSA PDC) organized a forum on Wednesday (Feb. 18) to enable various stakeholders to share their experiences of the KSA Sustainable Development Plan project, which was established to provide a framework to promote orderly development, economic growth and environmental management over the next 20 years. In his remarks at the forum, which...

The Clarendon Office of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) is hosting a series of activities to prepare participants for the Festival of the Performing Arts in the categories of speech, music, dance, drama and traditional folk forms. These events are being staged from February 18 to May 7, and include zone eliminations, a 'brush-up' workshop and children's gospel audition....

A soup feeding programme for the inmates of golden age homes and infirmaries has been set up by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman of Juici Patties, Jukie Chin, and his wife Edith. "It was dreamt up by my wife, Edith, and implemented by our employees. It actually sees us visiting every infirmary and golden age home in Jamaica throughout...

An initiative known as the Spring Bank/Johnson Mountain Small Scale Commercial Poultry Rearing Project has been launched in Spring Bank, St.Thomas at a cost of US$6,726. The launching ceremony was held on Wednesday (Feb. 18) at the Church of God Ground of Truth Temple in Spring Bank. A ribbon was cut by State Minister for Transport and Works and Member...

Leaders from Jamaican community organizations in the Washington D.C. area, as well as locally-based philanthropic groups involved in projects in the island, joined last Thursday (February 12) in bidding farewell to Jamaica's outgoing Ambassador to the United States, Seymour Mullings. The event was organized by Washington's largest and most influential Jamaican organization, the Jamaica Nationals Association (JNA), and hosted by...

A Bill entitled, 'The Property (Rights of Spouses) Act 2004', which makes provision for the division of property belonging to spouses after a breakdown of the union, was yesterday approved by the House of Representatives. In piloting the Bill, Minister of Development with responsibility for Gender Affairs, Dr. Paul Robertson said the Bill represented "a most significant landmark in Jamaica's...

The National Youth Service (NYS) will host another in its series of Youth Opportunity Fairs on Friday, February 20 at the Denbigh High School in Clarendon, beginning at 8:30 a.m. These Youth Opportunity Fairs target unemployed young persons in all the parishes. "The concept behind the opportunity fairs is to provide young persons with information about the employment and educational...

Approximately 300 primary and secondary schools across the island are making preparations for the celebration of 'Jamaica Day' this Friday, February 20, under the theme, 'Up Ye Mighty People'. This is the first of three days to be observed in schools this year. Hugh Douse, Director of the Culture in Education Programme in the Ministry of Education, Youth & Culture,...

The Jamaica Organic Agriculture Movement (JOAM) is currently developing a local certification programme, which will provide assurance to local consumers that they are purchasing certified organic products. This is being done in collaboration with the Caribbean Regional Human Resources Development Programme for Economic Development (CPEC) Speaking to JIS News, JOAM Chairman and Lecturer at the University of the West Indies,...