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Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers of Health and Education will be involved in two meetings in Montego Bay, Jamaica next week. First they will convene the Eighteenth Meeting of the CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) and then will meet with their Latin American counterparts in preparation for a meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)....

High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK), Burchell Whiteman, has said that despite the economic turmoil that has affected some of the island's major sectors, including bauxite, the Government has preserved its commitment to keep secondary education and hospital care free. Speaking at a meeting of UK-based Jamaicans, in Oldham, Mr. Whiteman said that the social safety net to support...

Cabinet has received reports on the 20th Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the 5th Summit of the Americas, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. The 20th Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, held in Belize, March 12-13, included discussions on...

State Minister with Responsibility for Local Government Reform in the Office of the Prime Minister, Robert Montague, has said that Jamaica will benefit significantly from its participation in the Fifth Commonwealth Local Government Conference, held in the Bahamas last week. Speaking at a press conference at the Department of Local Government on Hagley Park Road in Kingston on Thursday (May...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has congratulated the leader of the United Democratic Party (UDP) McKeeva Bush, on his party's victory in Wednesday's national elections in the Cayman Islands. Four years after losing to the People's Progressive Movement (PPM), the UDP was returned to office, capturing 9 of the 15 seats in the Legislative Assembly. In his message to Mr. Bush,...

Sixty Jamaicans are to be trained in hospitality tourism and the culinary arts, under a training project to be delivered through a partnership of the Jamaican Government and Canadian colleges. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), for the project was signed between the Government and Red River College and the College of the North Atlantic, today (May 21), at the Ministry...

The Registrar General's Department (RGD) will commence the first in its series of overseas outreach programmes for 2009, targeting Jamaicans in the Diaspora, on May 27 and 28 in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States (US). Speaking to JIS News at the weekly luncheon of the Rotary Club of St. Andrew at the Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston on Tuesday...

New Season, Jamaica's display at the 2009 Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show has been awarded the second highest award, the Silver Gilt Flora. Blossom Levene, team leader, said that while the Jamaican group was aiming for gold this year, they were satisfied with a silver award. "I believe that we have done well, because it was really very challenging...

Head of the Debt Management Unit in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Pamella McLaren, has urged United Kingdom-based Jamaicans to invest in Government of Jamaica (GoJ) securities. Mrs. McLaren was speaking at the Jamaica National Building Society's (JNBS) Outlook for the Future forum on the Jamaican Economy in Birmingham and London over the weekend. She told the...

A US$2.65 million (approximately J$230 million) grant contract has been signed between the Government of Jamaica and the Embassy of Japan, to reduce the incidence of crime and violence in high-risk and vulnerable inner city communities. The money was provided as part of the embassy's programme, the Japan Social Development Fund Grant which, among other things, supports initiatives for developing...

Fifty Jamaicans are to be trained as Resident Care Attendants, to fill vacancies in Canada, under a training project to be delivered through the partnership of a Jamaican and Canadian college. The project will see the Brown's Town Community College, in St. Ann, training Resident Care Attendants, based on British Colombian school, Sprott-Shaw Community College's academic curriculum. The programme, which...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. Dr. Kenneth Baugh, has reported that progress is being made in the efforts to resolve trade concerns affecting Jamaica and its CARICOM partners. Minister Baugh was commenting on CARICOM'S 26th Council on Trade and Economic Development meeting in Georgetown, Guyana, last Thursday and Friday. Minister Baugh told CARICOM...