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Minister of Industry and Tourism, Aloun N'dombet Assamba, has called on local hoteliers to join the global trend of providing high-speed data services for guests, thereby increasing their revenue from the diversification of offerings. "When people travel," Minister Assamba said, "they do not want to be far from their loved ones, friends, and businesses. They want to send e-mails, surf...

Milton Brown, Manager for the People's Cooperative (PC) Banks for the Western Region, has reported an increase in business since the merger of the co-operatives in St. James in 1999. Speaking with JIS News following a special general meeting of the St. James Integrated People's Co-operative Bank on Tuesday, October 6 at the Seventh Day Adventist Church Hall, Mr. Brown...

Vendors at the Brown's Town Market in St. Ann are being urged to pay their weekly market fees, and to clear all arrears, in a bid to reduce the outstanding sums owed to the market. The call came from Ian Boyd-Brown, St. Ann Parish Council Commercial Services Manager, at a public meeting, organised by the St. Ann Parish Council, at...

Marcus Garvey Technical High School in St. Ann is the Region Three winner of the National Food and Nutrition Coordinating Committee of Jamaica (NFNCCJ) 2003 National Schools' Nutrition Quiz for high schools. The competition, which is being held in collaboration with the Home Economics section of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture, and the Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute...

Over 120 senior citizens from Clarendon benefited from a health fair organized by the Lions Club of the parish on October 5 in celebration of World Service Day. The health fair was held at the Lions Health Centre on Foga Road in Denbigh. Ewan Scott, Club President told JIS News that the senior citizens were able to benefit from blood...

On Tuesday, October 14, the grounds of Nazareth All-age School, situated in the historic 163-year-old "free village" of Maidstone in Manchester will be the venue for a special ceremony to honour the "ancestral spirit" of pioneer ex-slave settlersLocal Historian, Hugh Nash told JIS News that the activity would begin at 10:00 a.m., under the theme, 'Embracing Our Heritage - Out...

Dr. Andrew Livingstone, Senior Vice President of Canadian management consulting firm, CoWater International, has lauded government's decision to implement a Rural Water Supply System (RWSP), noting that the project was an important response to the need for water. He was speaking at the recent opening of the Ministry of Water and Housing's RWSP workshop on Build and Operate (BO) Contracting...

Executive Director of the Mustard Seed Communities, Father Gregory Ramkissoon, is the 2003 recipient of the Ivy Humanitarian Prize for the Americas, in recognition of his decades of service to economically disadvantaged, mentally challenged and abandoned children in Jamaica. The award was announced by the Washington-based Ivy Inter-American Foundation (IIAF), during a visit to the Embassy of Jamaica in Washington...

The Jamaica Information Service's National Heritage Debate Competition was officially launched in Montego Bay on Tuesday (October 6), with Montego Bay High School emerging winners over Mt. Alvernia High School in the first of a series of seven matches to be held in the western region. Eight schools from Hanover, St. James and Westmoreland are expected to argue the moot,...

The Manchester Division of the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB), has organised a number of activities to observe Fire Safety Awareness Week, to run from October 26 to November 1. Sergeant Richard Smikle of the Fire Prevention Department told JIS News that the theme for the week was 'Information is key for a fire safe community'. He said the activities, to...

The Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ), has undertaken a programme of reorganisation of the island's People's Co-operative (PC) Banks, which should see the launch of a national co-operative within a few weeks. Byron McDonald, General Manager for Credit and Loan Administration at the DBJ, which has responsibility for the co-operatives, told JIS News, that the necessary resolutions to implement the...

Chairman of the National Poppy Appeal Committee, Lt. Col. Oral Khan is appealing to Jamaicans to support the drive to raise funds in the sum of $3.2 million, to assist ageing Jamaican ex-servicemen who fought in World War II. Lt. Col. Oral Khan, told JIS News in an interview, that the 2003 National Poppy Appeal, launched on October 5, would...