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Eighteen -year old Teshina Thompson, one of 58 graduates of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management’s (ODPEM) Emergency Affiliated Radio Services (EARS) Programme, demonstrates the use of an analog radio in communicating during times of disaster.
Eighteen -year old Teshina Thompson, one of 58 graduates of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management’s (ODPEM) Emergency Affiliated Radio Services (EARS) Programme, demonstrates the use of an analog radio in communicating during times of disaster.

ODPEM Equipping Communities to Respond During Disasters

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), through its Emergency Affiliated Radio Services (EARS) programme, is ensuring that communities, particularly remote areas, can adequately communicate before, during and after a disaster. As part of the process, 58 community...
Jamaican writer and poet Olive Senior.
Jamaican writer and poet Olive Senior.

Colon Man and the Panama Experience Lecture at the IOJ
Mr. Lecksley Johnson, an employee at Jamaican Teas Limited, performs his duty as a Documentation Officer.
Mr. Lecksley Johnson, an employee at Jamaican Teas Limited, performs his duty as a Documentation Officer.

Company Offers Opportunity to the Disabled
Retired educator, Yvonne “Miss Mackie” Francis (centre), is surrounded by community members and students of the Kitson Town Seventh Day Evening Institute in St. Catherine, which she regularly visits to provide advice to the students.
Retired educator, Yvonne “Miss Mackie” Francis (centre), is surrounded by community members and students of the Kitson Town Seventh Day Evening Institute in St. Catherine, which she regularly visits to provide advice to the students.

Retired Educator is a Community Treasure
Little Ipaco Campbell (third right), collects a back-to-school package from Chairman of the St. James Peace Management Initiative (PMI), Reverend Everton Jackson, in Montego Bay, recently. Sharing the occasion are other recipients from St. James; Administrator of the PMI, St. James, Garfield McGhie (left); and Social Workers, Rochelle Irving (centre) and Maxine Matthews. The presentation took place at the St. James PMI Offices on Church Street in Montego Bay.
Little Ipaco Campbell (third right), collects a back-to-school package from Chairman of the St. James Peace Management Initiative (PMI), Reverend Everton Jackson, in Montego Bay, recently. Sharing the occasion are other recipients from St. James; Administrator of the PMI, St. James, Garfield McGhie (left); and Social Workers, Rochelle Irving (centre) and Maxine Matthews. The presentation took place at the St. James PMI Offices on Church Street in Montego Bay.

Inner City Children In Montego Bay Receive Back-To-School Supplies

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JIS Launches Heritage Poster Competition

The Jamaica Information Service (JIS) has launched its inaugural Heritage Poster Competition, under the theme, ‘We are Free’. Targeting secondary level students across Jamaica in Grades 7 to 13, the competition will last for two months. Students are being asked to express their thoughts on freedom and its meaning through visual art, in the form of graphic or illustrated posters....
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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, tries out a bamboo chair on display at the recent Denbigh Agricultural Industrial and Food Show in Clarendon. Looking on is President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Senator Norman Grant.
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Jamaica Embarks On Commercial Bamboo Production

Jamaica is to embark on the large scale production of bamboo for the construction of low-cost houses and value added products such as furniture and charcoal for the export market. The aim is to tap into the lucrative global market for bamboo products, which is estimated at US$10 billion, with potential to reach US$20 billion by next year. The project...
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The three Commissioners who will preside over the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry were sworn in on Friday August 29, 2014 at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel. The Commissioners who took the Oath of Office before former Chief Justice of Jamaica, Hon. Mr. Justice Lensley Wolfe, (ret’d) OJ, JP, are: Chairman, Retired Chief Justice and former Attorney General of Barbados Sir David Simmons; Retired Judge of the Court of Appeal of Jamaica, Mrs. Justice Hazel Harris, CD; and Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice and Security, University of the West Indies, Professor Anthony Harriott.
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West Kingston Enquiry Commissioners Sworn In

The three Commissioners who will preside over the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry were sworn in on Friday August 29, 2014 at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel. The Commissioners who took the Oath of Office before former Chief Justice of Jamaica, Hon. Mr. Justice Lensley Wolfe, (ret’d) OJ, JP, are: Chairman, Retired Chief Justice and former Attorney General of Barbados Sir...
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Governor General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen (left), offers words of commendation to Westmoreland teacher, Swaine Esson (centre), while presenting him with the Governor General’s Achievement Award on Thursday (August 28), at the All American Institute of Medical Sciences in Black River, St. Elizabeth. Sharing the occasion at right is the Custos of Westmoreland, Hon. Hartley Perrin.
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GG Hails Cornwall County Achievers

Governor General, His Excellency The Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, has commended the 2014 recipients of the Governor General’s Achievement Award (GGAA) for their contribution to national building. He said that by voluntarily contributing to your communities, oftentimes with minimal resources and financial support, they have chosen to be part of Jamaica’s transformation “into the place of choice defined in...
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Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Sharon Ffolkes Abrahams (left) is presented with Jack fish by Property Manager for the Montego Bay Fishermen’s Co-operative Society (MBFCS) Limited, Devon Crooks. Mrs. Ffolkes Abrahams was the guest speaker at the Co-operative’s Annual General Meeting held on August 21 at the Montego Bay Fishing Complex, St. James.
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Co-Operatives Play A Key Role In Community Development – Ffolkes Abrahams

Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Sharon Ffolkes Abrahams, is underscoring the importance of co-operatives to the development of communities and expansion of Jamaica’s economy. “Co-operatives are effective engines of sustainable economic growth. They contribute immensely in the improvement of lives and to the economic, cultural and social advancement of our communities. Co-operatives serve...
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Local Government and Community Development Minister, Hon. Noel Arscott (left), performs the symbolic ground breaking exercise to signal the formal commencement of the $11.2 million (US$100,000) Cecil Charlton Park Re-development Project in Mandeville, Manchester, on August 21. Also participating in the exercise were: Mandeville’s Mayor and Manchester Parish Council Chairperson, Councillor Brenda Ramsey (centre);  First Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade, and Development, Canadian High Commission in Jamaica, Kelly Thompson (2nd right); and North West Manchester Member of Parliament, Mikael Phillips (right). Looking on is  Manchester Parish Development Committee (MPDC) Chairperson, Sally-Ann Corrodus. The project is being implemented by the Manchester Parish Council, under the  $2 billion (C$20 million) Government of Canada-funded Caribbean Local Economic Development Project (CARILED),
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Redevelopment Work Begins on Cecil Charlton Park

Redevelopment work has commenced on the Cecil Charlton Park in Mandeville, Manchester, to construct 10 kiosks for use by micro, small and medium sized entrepreneurs in the town. The kiosks are being built at a cost of approximately $11.2 million (US$100,000). The project, being spearheaded by the Manchester Parish Council, is the first of seven pilots approved by the Ministry...
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Citizens Security and Justice Programme (CSJP) Communications Co-ordinator Patrice Tomlinson-Nephew engages (L-R) Shaneka Riley, graduate of Penwood High School; Tiffany McFarlane of Pembrooke Hall High School; Neisha Rose of Denham Town High School ;and Shemeka Ennis of the Young Women’s Christian Association in a team building exercise at the CSJP Summer Diversion Programme held at Dunrobin Primary School on Thursday August 21.
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Students Benefit From CSJP Summer Programme

While many students were at home engaged in various leisure activities during the summer break, more than 30 students from inner-city communities participated in the Citizens Security and Justice Programme’s (CSJP) Summer Diversion Programme, in preparation for the new school year. The initiative, which is being introduced for the first time, ran from August 18 to 22, engaging students in...
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