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The recently established website to promote tourism and other offerings in the parish of St. Elizabeth, has stirred the interest of many residents, who see the initiative as positive for education and business promotion. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) in charge of administration for the parish, Nadine Grant-Brown, tells JIS News that the website has impacted her family. “My son...

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Noel Arscott, has announced that the Brown’s Town market, in St. Ann,  which was extensively damaged in a massive fire some months ago, will be refurbished at a cost of  $14 million. Speaking to JIS News after a tour of the facility  on January 25, the Minister said the priority is to...

Secretary/Manager of the Hanover Parish Council, Alfred Graham, is confident that arrangements for the 128th birthday anniversary tribute to National Hero, Right Excellent Sir Alexander Bustamante, will be successful. In an interview with JIS News, following a meeting of the planning committee for the event in Lucea, Hanover, Wednesday (January 25), Mr. Graham noted that they have been meeting on...

The Social Development Commission (SDC) is inviting applications for the annual National Best Community Competition and Programme (NBCCP). The deadline for submission is March 2012. Director of Governance, SDC, Sherine Walker Francis told JIS News that any of the island’s 783 Community Development Committees (CDCs) as identified by the SDC can participate in the competition. “This year’s competition is now...

Students at the Tivoli Gardens High School in West Kingston, now have access to interactive learning equipment, which will stimulate greater interest in education, while enhancing the numeracy and literacy programmes at the institution. The equipment, which are housed in the school’s library include computers, document and digital cameras, and a digital whiteboard, among others. They were donated by Petrojam...

KINGSTON — Community projects valued at more than $100 million have been facilitated by the Social Development Commission (SDC), since January this year. “We have trained over 125 community groups in the art of project development and project writing, and this has led to us enabling the projects in the various communities,” Executive Director of the SDC, Dwayne Vernon, told...

KINGSTON — Residents of Waterford, Portmore, St. Catherine, should begin to see a reduction of their mosquito nuisance over the next few weeks, as a biological control programme progresses. As part of the experimental phase of this programme, some three to four thousand  Gambusia specie of the mosquito eating fish, known locally as the ‘Tiki Tiki’, were deployed in a...

MONTEGO BAY — Philanthropist and past president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Pauline Reid, on Thursday (Dec. 15), launched her book ‘Montego Bay Jamaica: An awe-inspiring photographic journey.’ The 300-page coffee table pictorial provides a colorful history of Montego Bay, through spectacular photographs of people and places, with stimulating stories that chronicle the city’s evolution into...

KINGSTON — With construction of the St. Catherine Youth Information Centre (YIC) and training facility slated to begin this month, stakeholders involved in youth development are lauding the Government initiative, stating that it will bring renewed hope for the parish's young people. Chairman of the St. Catherine Parish Development Committee (PDC), Earl Hyde, said the project is one of the...

MONTEGO BAY — Over 500 households in Benin, Browns Town, St. Ann, now have piped water, courtesy of a project involving the town's Community Development Committee (CDC), the National Water Commission (NWC) and Member of Parliament for North West St. Ann, Hon Othneil Lawrence. The project, which came out of requests from the community, at a Social Development Commission (SDC)...

KINGSTON — Residents of Auchindoun and surrounding communities in Westmoreland are slated to benefit from an income generating project in honey production being spearheaded by the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA). Executive Director of the NSWMA, Joan Gordon-Webley, told JIS News that the idea is to get residents involved in the production of honey to earn income for themselves...

KINGSTON — West Kingston residents now have a victim support and counselling centre, where they can benefit from expert mediation and receive psychological and emotional support. Established as a response to the May 2011 operation by the security forces in the area, the centre is staffed by counsellors provided by the Ministry of Justice’s Victim Support Unit as well as...