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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...

Labour Day activities this year will include a ginger resuscitation project in Butlers Run, in the Top Alston area of Clarendon. "Small farmers in and around the area will benefit from practical demonstrations on pest eradication, as well as greenhouse and open field planting methodologies, by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, RADA and the Scientific Research Council," said project...

Activities for Labour Day 2009 have moved into high gear in Western Jamaica, with approximately 123 projects registered to date, and expectations are that more registration forms for projects will be turned in over the next few days. Checks with the Labour Day Planning Committees in the parishes of Trelawny, St. James, Hanover and Westmoreland, have revealed that there are...

Overseas performers for the classical concert, 'An Evening of the Classics', will arrive in the island this afternoon (May 19). Meanwhile, Jamaican youth performers are fine tuning their acts for the two-day series scheduled for Montego Bay and Kingston this weekend. Founder and Director of Jamaica Early Childhood Development Foundation (JACDF), Mrs. Lorna Golding, says that in Child Month it...

Students from high schools and tertiary institutions in the county of Middlesex had the opportunity to share their concerns, dreams, aspirations and vision for Jamaica with Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Honourable Dr. Patrick Allen, at a youth consultative breakfast, held last Friday (May 15), at the Caymanas Golf and Country Club. The Youth Consultative Breakfast was held under the...