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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...

KINGSTON — Work on the Portmore water project, which will bring improved water supply to residents of the St. Catherine municipality and adjoining areas, is slated to get underway in another two weeks. To be undertaken by the National Water Commission (NWC) over a 15-month period, the scope of works will involve construction of a new transmission main at the...

KINGSTON — In an effort to increase agricultural production in Yallahs, St. Thomas, the Government is seeking to improve the irrigation system in the area. Cabinet has approved a $51 million contract, awarded to Jamaica Drip Irrigation Limited, for the supply of irrigation pipes and fittings for the Yallahs Irrigation System, Phase 1. Speaking at Wednesday's (October 19) Post-Cabinet press...

MONTEGO BAY — Seven 'local heroes' who had made outstanding contributions to the development of Westmoreland, were showered with accolades and awards at the parish's National Heroes' Day salute in Norman Square, Savanna-La-Mar, on Monday, October 17. At the Civic Ceremony, attended by hundreds of residents from across the parish, homage was paid to The Very Reverend Canon Hartley D....