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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

Retired educator, Yvonne Francis, is a treasure in her Kitson Town community in rural St. Catherine. Every day, the 75-year-old gets up at 5:00 a.m. to tend to her small herd of goats and her backyard plot of cassava and...

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

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.

Jamaica Embarks On Commercial Bamboo Production

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.

West Kingston Enquiry Commissioners Sworn In

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.

GG Hails Cornwall County Achievers

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...

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...

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...

Director for Environmental Management and Conservation at the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), Anthony McKenzie addresses a community meeting at Oswald’s restaurant, in Alligator Pond Manchester, where he urged property owners impacted by beach erosion to make contact with NEPA before erecting any personal solution.

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Property Owners Affected By Beach Erosion Urged To Contact NEPA

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is urging property owners impacted by beach erosion to make contact with the authority before effecting any personal solution. This is in order to avoid being served with an enforcement notice. The caution was issued by Director for Environmental Management and Conservation at NEPA, Anthony McKenzie at a community meeting at Oswald’s restaurant,...

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New York Kiwanians To Host Children’s Wellness Project In St. Ann

Kiwanians from several clubs in New York will visit Jamaica from August 28 to 31, to conduct a Children’s Wellness Service Project in Runaway Bay, St. Ann. The Kiwanis will partner with the Discovery Bay Kiwanis club for a service project to provide children in the Runaway Bay area with back to school supplies, wellness education, and dental hygiene materials,...

Sherine Mullings Hughes (centre), is congratulated by Pastor of the Kitson Town Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Circuit of Churches, Wayne Smikle (2nd right), on her performance in the Caribbean Secondary Education Council (CSEC) tests. Looking on (from left) are: Vice Principals of the Kitson Town SDA Evening Institute, Granville Deleon and Errol Martin; Principal of Westmore College in St. Catherine, Leanora Taylor; and Chairman of the College, Dr. Horace Wright.

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Second Chance for High School Dropout

A St. Catherine mother of two, whose formal education was interrupted at age 15, is today a proud academic achiever, with a scholarship, and is on course for a brighter future. Sherine Mullings Hughes, who hails from Top Mountain near Kitson Town, passed the four subjects she sat in this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) tests, three with distinction...

Attorney-at-law and business analyst, Dennis Richards, questions a group, comprising students, parents and volunteers at the August Town Community Centre, following his presentation during the empowerment segment of the Teach the Youth programme, now underway in that community.

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Youth Encouraged to Use Education to Combat Poverty

Young residents of August Town who are participating in the University of Technology’s (UTech) Teach the Youth programme, now underway in six inner city communities, are being encouraged to use education to combat poverty, and to exercise self-control to stay out of trouble. Speaking in the empowerment segment of the programme, at the August Town Community Centre recently, attorney-at-law and...