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Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, is urging young people to recognise and seize business opportunities to turn their dreams into reality.  She was addressing the closing ceremony for the Creativity for Employment and Business Opportunity (CEBO) Youth Training workshop, developed by the CARICOM Secretariat, held on October 8 at the Ministry's New Kingston office. She said that...

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, and PSOJ President Chris Zacca, have both expressed the commitment of the government and the private sector to work together to move things forward for Jamaica, despite the current challenges. "The enormous challenges facing the country cannot be denied", the Prime Minister told the PSOJ delegation, while emphasising that “the task was not beyond us,...

Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Hon. Phillip Paulwell, says the Government firmly believes that it is the private sector that should drive investment in energy projects. He said the duty of the state is to create the enabling environment for investment and then for regulating that environment to ensure that the rules are fair and that everyone observes...

Eight students of Jamaican heritage, who are attending colleges and universities in the United States of America (USA), have been awarded the 2012 Professor Gordon Shirley Book Scholarship. They are Nirica Clarke, Kimberley Curtis and Shanique Fletcher of Howard University; Tressan Gordon of Virginia State University; Camille Clennon Hilmy of Prince George's Community College; Raquel Lowe of Mary Baldwin College;...

The HEART Trust/NTA and Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) have partnered to undertake a $15.2 million Vocational Training Project for young persons between 17 and 35 years of age. This project will last for 12 months and will target persons in six communities in St. Catherine, who are deemed 'unattached'. The educational and vocational training programme will benefit persons in...

The Government is taking measures to contain the number of dengue cases and to control the breeding of the disease-causing Aedes Aegypti mosquito. Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, told JIS News that a joined-up government approach is being employed involving several ministries. "I have brought together the Minister of Local Government (Hon. Noel Arscott), myself, State Minister Richard...

Health care delivery at the Savanna-la-Mar Public Hospital, in Westmoreland, should be significantly improved with a new Accident and Emergency department scheduled to be established soon. This was announced by Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, when he toured the Savanna-la-Mar Public Hospital and the Darliston and Williams Field Health Centres, on October 5. Dr. Ferguson informed that the...

Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson has urged persons to show care and respect to individuals with mental illness and not abuse them. The call comes as the country observes World Mental Health Day on October 10, 2012 under the theme "Depression: A Global Crisis". In his message, Minister Ferguson says mental health has been identified by the ministry...

Cabinet has approved a $280 million contract to Arel Limited to undertake upgrading and extension work of the chilled-water air conditioning system at the Norman Manley International Airport. This was disclosed by Minister with responsibility for Information, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer, during last week's Jamaica House press briefing at the Office of the Prime Minister. She said that the...

President of the University of Technology (UTech), Professor the Hon. Errol Morrison, says that the country's athletes and coaches are facing a "scientific injustice" as they are unable to fully understand the  exhaustive list of banned substances published by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). He argued that to understand what is referred to as a "banned substance" is "no mean...

Former Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Edward Seaga, is to be honoured during a special joint sitting of the Houses of Parliament at Gordon House on Tuesday (October 9), as part of Jamaica 50 celebrations. Mr. Seaga is being recognised for the role he played in shaping Jamaica's post-Independence parliamentary landscape. He is the only surviving member of the team...

More than 2,000 residents of St. James are expected to benefit from free health services and medical supplies over the next three days, as the Atlanta-Montego Bay Sister City Health Mission stages its 19th annual visit to the island. The mission got underway on Monday at the St. John's Methodist Church in Montego Bay, with the 40-member team of health...