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The community of Hampstead in St. Mary is currently benefiting from an improved water supply system and an upgraded all-age school, with the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) providing most of the funding for both projects. A total sum of $29.5 million was spent on the projects, with the JSIF donating approximately $22 million, with the rest coming from community...

Children in the community of Springfield in South West Clarendon will be the beneficiaries of a Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) project, under which a new basic school is to be constructed. The contract for the basic school is valued at J$5 million and was approved at the October sitting of the Board of JSIF, where a total of J$48.8...

Director of Enforcement and Compliance at the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), Ann-Marie Rodriquez has assured that the Authority is working to restore normalcy to its residential waste collection operations. Speaking with JIS News, Ms. Rodriquez confirmed that the NSWMA had doubled its efforts and had instituted night collection, which should last for two weeks. This is being done...

The Ministry of Local Government, Community Development and Sport is hosting a series of workshops aimed at enhancing the job skills of the parish councils' staff, in the government's bid to improve service delivery at that level. These workshops, which got underway in March of this year, target various personnel within the parish councils, ranging from Mayors to Secretaries, and...

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...