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Members of the Errol Rattray Evangelistic Association (EREA), Sam Cooper (left), and Heather Rattray (2nd left), look on as President and Chief Executive Officer of the EREA, Evangelist Errol Rattray (centre), shakes the hand of Co-founder of the Free Wheelchair Mission, Dr. Eric Blum (2nd right), at the handing over of 500 wheelchairs for the disabled, today (April 13) at the Christian Fellowship World Outreach Church in Kingston.
The other Co-Founder, Dr. Tony Angelo (right), looks on. — Members of the Errol Rattray Evangelistic Association (EREA), Sam Cooper (left), and Heather Rattray (2nd left), look on as President and Chief Executive Officer of the EREA, Evangelist Errol Rattray (centre), shakes the hand of Co-founder of the Free Wheelchair Mission, Dr. Eric Blum (2nd right), at the handing over of 500 wheelchairs for the disabled, today (April 13) at the Christian Fellowship World Outreach Church in Kingston. The other Co-Founder, Dr. Tony Angelo (right), looks on.

550 Wheelchairs for Persons with Disabilities

Persons with disabilities are to benefit from 550 wheelchairs, donated by the Free Wheelchair Mission (FWM), based in the United States of America. The organisation collaborates with the locally based Errol Rattray Evangelistic Association (EREA), and the wheelchairs will be...

Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer, addresses today’s (April 13) opening of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) five-day Women in Maritime Affairs (WiMA) conference, being held at the Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort in Montego Bay.

Achieving Gender Equality Major Plank of Development Process – Senator Falconer

Update: Fire at Westbrook Avenue

Leader of the Opposition, Dr. Peter Phillips.

Finance Minister to Co-Chair G20 Working Group in Washington DC

Senior Director, Technical Services, Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), and Chairman, Bamboo and Indigenous Materials Advisory Committee (BIMAC), Gladstone Rose (left), and Managing Director, Janitorial Traders Limited (JTL), Roger Chang, discuss product packaging on a bag of Jamaica Jeems Products organic bamboo charcoal. Mr. Rose observed the packaging of the product for export on April 10, at the JTL’s facility on Stanton Terrace, Kingston.

9,600 Pounds of Organically Certified Bamboo Charcoal To Be Shipped Tomorrow

Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill, delivering the keynote address at the launch of the US$3.9 million Yallahs and Hope River Watershed Project, held on April 13, at the Terra Nova Hotel, in St. Andrew.

11 years ago Environment

US$3.9 Million Watershed Project Launched

The Government has launched a US$3.9 million project to protect the Yallahs and Hope River areas from degradation, and improve water resource management. The five-year project, which is funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), through the Global Environment Facility, will also seek to achieve institutional strengthening and capacity building for integrating biodiversity into watershed management. Delivering the keynote address...

Chief Executive Officer at the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), Peter Knight.

11 years ago Local Government

Riverton Not On Fire

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is advising that the Riverton City Disposal Site is not on fire. Chief Executive Officer at NEPA, Peter Knight, told JIS News that a blaze started earlier this morning (April 13) at a private tyre shop adjacent to the disposal site that is unrelated to the National Solid Waste Management (NSWMA)-run facility. “It...

Minister of Justice, Senator the Hon. Mark Golding. (FILE)

11 years ago Justice

Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2015 to Come Into Effect April 15

The Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2015 was passed by both Houses of Parliament in February this year. The Ministry of Justice wishes to advise as follows: (1) Notification of the Governor General’s assent to the Act has been published in the Gazette; and (2) The Minister of Justice will bring the Act into operation, by a notice published in...

Minister with Responsibility for Information, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer (left), in conversation with South African High Commissioner to Jamaica, Her Excellency, Mathu Joyini (right), at the inaugural Phenomenal Women Breakfast, hosted by the International Women’s Forum (IWF) Jamaica, today (April 10) at the Terra Nova All Suite Hotel in Kingston. The Minister addressed the function.

11 years ago Information

Women Leaders Urged To Mentor Others

Minister with Responsibility for Information, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer, is urging the country’s women leaders to encourage other women to play a more active role in national development. “We have to encourage women to participate a little more. They are going to need more support. It is more difficult for women to get financial support in politics and we...

Deputy Director General at the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) in charge of Sustainable Development and Social Planning, Claire Bernard, provides an update on the Government of Jamaica Adaptation Fund Programme (GOJ/AFP) at a JIS Think Tank on April 2, 2015.

11 years ago Climate ChangeCommunityEnvironmentFinance & Public ServiceJIS Think TankVision 2030

Adaptation Fund Programme Building Climate Change Resilience

The Government of Jamaica/Adaptation Fund Programme (GOJ/AFP), implemented in 2013, is significantly helping to build the country’s resilience to climate change. Deputy Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) in charge of Sustainable Development and Social Planning, Claire Bernard, says the programme, funded to the tune of US$10 million, has been pivotal in “helping local communities and institutions...

11 years ago Senate

Senate Passes Administrator-General’s (Amendment) Bill

The Administrator-General’s (Amendment) Bill, which aims to speed up the estate administration process in Jamaica, was passed, with two amendments, in the Senate on Friday, April 10. The Bill seeks to amend the Administrator-General’s Act to establish a framework for the Administrator-General (AG) to efficiently administer multi-generational estates and intestate estates (where the owner dies without leaving a valid will)...

Ex-servicemen (from left) Majors Victor Beek, and Torrance Lewis, Major General Robert Neish, and Earl Beckford, proudly display souvenir coins presented to them by United States President, Barack Obama, during a wreath laying ceremony at the Cenotaph (seen in the background), at the National Heroes Park, Kingston. The coins are engraved with the Presidential Seal on one side and an image of the White House on the other.

11 years ago US President Visit

Momentous Meeting for President Obama and Jamaican Ex-Servicemen

Two of the country’s ex-servicemen, Earl Barrington Beckford, and Retired Major, Victor Leslie Beek, are the envy of many Jamaicans, as they had the propitious pleasure of meeting United States President, Barack Obama, during his two-day visit to the island, from April 8 to 9. The World War II veterans were dignified with the privilege of this momentous occasion, during...