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Twenty-one year old law student, Zuleika Jess was crowned Miss Clarendon Festival Queen, at the grand coronation show held recently at the Versalles Hotel in May Pen, Clarendon. Staged under the theme: "Jamaican Woman: Our National Treasure", the Festival Queen Competition has sought for the past several years, to showcase the cultural awareness, talent and creativity of young women, and...

Residents of St. Thomas will be restoring the Easington Memorial Park in Yallahs, for Labour Day. The St. Thomas Labour Day Planning Committee has chosen this activity as the parish project from the over 170 projects that were submitted. Sixty-nine of these were from Western St Thomas, while 51 were from the Eastern side of the parish. His Worship the...

Children's Advocate, Mary Clarke is expressing grief and regret over the death of five girls in a fire, at the Armadale Juvenile Correctional Centre in Alexandra, St. Ann last night. "It is a tragedy. It is a sad day for all Jamaica, that five children should have died in a fire this way. The staff and the girls are very...

Fifty-three projects have so far been registered with the Portland Labour Day Committee for Labour Day, Monday, May 25. They include the parish project to beautify the Portland Infirmary in Port Antonio, as well as the painting of schools, paving of roadways, painting of road signs and refurbishing of Government buildings. The parish project will involve the painting of the...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding has given instructions to hastily relocate the inmates of the Armadale Juvenile Correctional Centre in Alexandra, St Ann, following last night's (May 20) fire in which five girls were killed and thirteen others injured. The girls will be removed to the Stony Hill HEART Academy and buses are now being sent to Armadale to...

The Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) and the University of Technology (UTech), will be 'sprucing up' the Papine Park in St. Andrew, as part of activities for Labour Day, May 25. Project Co-ordinator, Marline Stephenson Dalley, told JIS News that the scope of work will include the cleaning up and painting of the walls, benches, sanitary conveniences; pruning of trees;...

A total of 65 projects have so far been registered with the St. Mary Labour Day Committee, as preparations for Labour Day in the parish get into high gear. Parish Manager for the Social Development Commission (SDC), in St. Mary, Janet Rose-Bryan, said the projects include road repairs, the cleaning-up of communities, the refurbishing of Government buildings, the painting of...

Residents of St. Elizabeth will be engaged in more than 100 community development projects throughout the parish on Monday, May 25, in response to the national call to put work into Labour Day. Of the total, about 60 will be supported by the Social Development Commission (SDC) parish office, with the Parish Council accounting for another 40. The parish project...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding says democracy does not apply to the rearing of children. He said, "As committed as I am to democracy, there is no democracy in bringing up children. There are rules that have to be laid down; there is a certain standard of behaviour that must be demanded and when it is not forthcoming, it...

The Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange, MP has announced two more projects for national focus on Labour Day, Monday, May 25, 2009. Minister Grange said the Labour Day Secretariat will now support the Lucea Fire Station project in Hanover and the Belle Isle Community Club project in Westmoreland. These additions bring the number of Labour Day...

Secretary/Manager of the St. Ann Parish Council, Clinton Gordon, is appealing to residents to come out and support Labour Day activities in the parish. "The world runs on volunteerism. We cannot afford to pay for everything so let us volunteer and work on the various projects in our area," Mr. Gordon encouraged. More than 40 projects have been registered for...

Refurbishing work on a building situated next to the site of the tissue culture ginger project in Top Alston, Clarendon, one of the four projects selected by the National Labour Day Planning Committee for special focus, is almost complete. Speaking at a JIS 'Think Tank' today (May 20), Chairman of the National Labour Day Planning Committee, Dorothea Clarke, said that...