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Seventy-nine students from New York's Pace University will take time out of their spring break vacation to participate in a service project at the Whitehall Basic School in Negril, Jamaica, on Tuesday, March 16. University students and staff members will spend the day with Jamaican students and teachers. With assistance from local professionals, they will paint the entire exterior of...

The St. Thomas Fire Division will be embarking on a project to assist needy persons, especially the aged, whose homes have been destroyed by fire and other disasters. Superintendent of the Division, Louiston Gooden, told JIS News that the department would be building one or two-room dwelling houses as well as carrying out repairs to homes of the "most needy"....

Minister of Local Government, Community Development and Sport, Portia Simpson Miller has said that the Government's expenditure on national security could be drastically decreased if communities across Jamaica were better organized and mobilized. Expanding on her point, Minister Simpson Miller said that if people in the communities developed an appreciation of the importance of "community spirit" and learned to understand...

Ground has been broken at the Cumberland All-age School in north Clarendon for the construction of a complex valued at about $2 million which will consist of a computer laboratory, library, principal's office, staff room and sick bay as well as a storeroom. Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony, which was held on Wednesday (March 3), Member of Parliament (MP) for...

Eight employees from the Ocho Rios Branch of Life of Jamaica (LOJ) received top awards for outstanding performance in the company for 2003. Trophies were awarded to Patricia Brown, Owen Grant, Gifton Brown, Shevon Hedghill, Joan Taylor, Ishmael Jackson, Paul Lindo, and Robert Lyons, at the branch's 2004 Annual Sales Award ceremony held recently at Hedonism Three, in Runaway Bay,...

The $10 million project has been implemented through financing from the CHASE fund to equip 68 libraries with the necessary technology to provide Internet service. The project was officially launched at the Green Island Branch library in Hanover on March 4. Chairman of the Jamaica Library Board, Dr. Simon Clarke emphasises a point, while speaking yesterday (Mar. 3) at the...

Mediation, with an emphasis on conciliation and restoration, is being forwarded as one proven and effective way of resolving much of the social conflicts plaguing Jamaica. This was the common view expressed by various individuals at PALS Jamaica's Peace Day celebrations held at King's House in Kingston, this morning (March 2), under the theme "Peace Every Time" with emphasis on...

Senior Citizens' Clubs in St. Thomas have launched several income generating projects to expose the versatility of the elderly in the parish. The launch, organized by the National Council for Senior Citizens (NCSC), was held on February 26 at the Anglican Church Hall in Morant Bay, where several handicraft items, foods, preserves as well as fruits and vegetables were displayed....

The Trelawny Lay Magistrates Association will be hosting its annual prayer breakfast, at Roy's Villas, in Deeside, Falmouth, in the parish, on Thursday, March 11, under the theme, 'Love Thy Neighbour as Thyself'. The event, which is scheduled to begin at 8:00 a.m., will see Governor General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Howard Cooke, as a special guest, while...

A first aid kit valued at $3,000, was recently donated to the One Love Basic School in Mansfield Heights, Ocho Rios, St. Ann by members of the Young Children's Priority One Club. The kit contains antiseptic wash and ointment, lotion, cotton balls, gloves, gauze pads, tongue blades, alcohol, cough syrup, vitamins, and a pair of scissors. Club Director, Ava Neil,...

Some 50 students from three schools in Ocho Rios, St. Ann, are now benefiting from a breakfast programme, initiated by the Kiwanis Club of St. Ann. The schools include Parry Town Primary, Ocho Rios Primary and the One Love Basic School. Majorie Robinson, 1st Vice President of the club, told JIS News that the breakfast programme, which started about three...

The Women's Resource and Outreach Centre (WROC) has been just that for the women of the surrounding communities of Beechwood Avenue in Kingston, a rock. For the past 20 years, the centre, situated at 47 Beechwood Avenue, has been one of the pillars of the community, providing needed medical resource and guidance for families and women, especially, in the troubled...