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Minister of Local Government, Community Development and Sport, Portia Simpson-Miller, has commended the St. James Parish Council's Poor Relief Department for its innovative structure and its far-reaching efforts in offering care to street people and the less fortunate in Montego Bay. "I am heartened by the list of volunteers that work in collaboration with the Poor Relief Department. My heartiest...

Minister of Local Government, Community Development and Sport, Portia Simpson Miller has said that the first batch of eight fire trucks for the Jamaica Fire Brigade should arrive in the island within eight months of the signing of the contract with Rosenbauer America LLC. A date is to be set for the signing of the US$9.2 million contract, which will...

Jamaica Aids Support and the Good Shepherd Foundation will benefit from the collection during the Independence Service of Praise and Thanksgiving, organised by the Jamaican High Commission in London. The annual service, scheduled for Saturday, August 6 at the Parish Church of St. Martin in the Fields in Trafalgar Square, will highlight the celebrations to mark Jamaica's 43rd anniversary of...

The US$800 million expansion project, to be undertaken at the Jamalco plant in Clarendon, is expected to create employment for thousands of residents of the Hayes community where the plant is located, in addition to persons in surrounding areas. The company's Managing Director, Jerome Maxwell, told JIS News that the three-year project would require the services of some 3,500 persons...

Stakeholders have made the decision to form a May Pen Redevelopment Company aimed at planning and implementing necessary infrastructural and developmental changes to the town of May Pen and if necessary to relocate certain activities within the town. A redevelopment task force will also be established to lead the process of the formation of the company. The decision was made...

Lilian Miller, a seventy-year-old resident of the York Town community in Southwest Clarendon has received a single unit house, as a result of a partnership between Food for the Poor and the Poor Relief Department of the Clarendon Parish Council. The Unit is valued at approximately J$124, 000 (US$2,000). In a JIS News interview, Ms. Miller expressed her gratitude for...

Some 170 males from the environs of Hayes in Clarendon, representing 12 communities, are to participate in a recently reorganized Community Football League, sponsored by Jamalco. The League was launched recently at the Vere Technical High School in that parish. Guest Speaker Peter Prendergast, President of the Jamaica Football Referees Association (JFRA) urged the participants to break down the political...

The Manchester Parish Council is urging all residents to come out and participate in the series of public budget meetings, which will be held across the parish over the next two months. The first meeting will be held in Porus on Thursday, February 10. Secretary Manager of the parish council, Winston Palmer, told JIS News that the overall aim of...

The Montego Bay Street and Homeless Rehabilitation Programme, which is aimed at empowering persons living on the streets so that they can be re-integrated into the society, was officially launched recently at the Montego Bay Civic Centre. The project is being implemented by the St. James Parish Council in collaboration with the Committee for the Upliftment of the Mentally Ill...

It is often said that talk is cheap. However by demolishing social and political barriers, through meaningful dialogue, several inner-city communities have demonstrated that talk can in fact be quite invaluable. Under the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) Civic Dialogue for Democratic Governance Project in Jamaica, citizens have realized that meaningful dialogue can change whole communities, resolve conflicts and identify...

Reconstruction work is to be carried out on some 14 schools in Clarendon under the first phase of the Hurricane Ivan Reconstruction programme being carried out by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF). In a JIS News interview on Monday (November 29), Omar Sweeney, Operations Manager at JSIF said that the schools are part of a total of 47 schools...

Minister of Local Government, Community Development and Sport, Portia Simpson Miller has called for the revival of the strong community spirit, which has in the past enabled the country to rise above difficult experiences and challenges. Mrs. Simpson Miller was giving the keynote address at the official launch of the Charles Town multi-purpose complex in Charles Town, Portland on Sunday,...