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A Poverty Reduction Coordinating Unit is to be established as government places focus on ensuring social protection for the country’s most vulnerable. This was disclosed by Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Dr. Gladstone Hutchinson on February 23, during hisreview of the country’s economic performance for the October to December 2011 quarter, at a media briefing at...

Cabinet has established a Committee, which will examine the recommendations in the public sector master rationalisation plan, and oversee its implementation. Minister with responsibility for Information, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer, says Cabinet has acknowledged the “superior” work done by the Public Sector Transformation Unit. She was addressing journalists at the weekly Jamaica House press briefing, at the Office of...

Labour and Social Security Minister, Hon. Derrick Kellier, has given an undertaking to re-commit the Labour Advisory Council (LAC) to the mission of being part of the country’s governance process. This, he says, is to ensure that significant accruable benefits are generated, which will redound to the national interest. Making his inaugural address as LAC Chairman, at its first meeting...

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Noel Arscott, says efforts are ongoing to make improvements to the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB). He adds personnel is being boosted with the inclusion of 100 new trainees, while another 120 are in training and are set to graduate soon. “So, we expect a much improved service while we try to finance...

Scores of school children lined the streets from Stony Gut, St. Thomas to Spanish Town, St. Catherine, last Wednesday (February 8) to view the runners participating in the “Justice Run” organised by the Ministry of Justice. Along the 45-mile trek, they applauded the runners, who were re-enacting the historic journey made by National Hero, Paul Bogle, 147 years ago, in...

Members of the Senate, on February 10, paid tribute to former Cabinet Minister and Senator, Ambassador the Hon. Dudley Thompson, who died on January 20. Government Senator, Lambert Brown, described the late Ambassador Thompson, who was laid to rest last Friday (February 10), as “the burning spear,” who served his country with distinction and honour. “Though he was small in...

Tributes were paid  to former Senator and prominent businessman, Alexander Barclay Ewart, who died on February 1, by  Members of the Senate on February 10. Minister of Justice, Senator the Hon. Mark Golding, said Mr. Ewart was one of Jamaica’s leading industrialists, who had a genuine desire to serve his people and country. “He was a modest person, very calm...

Minister with responsibility for Information, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer, has pledged her full support in enhancing the work of the Government’s news agency, the Jamaica Information Service (JIS). Addressing staff members, following a tour of the entity’s head office at 58a Half-Way Tree Road, in Kingston, today  (February 14), Senator Falconer said she,  and by extension, the administration, understood...

Dr. the Hon. Carlton Davis, OJ, CD, has been appointed as Ambassador and Special Envoy in the Office of the Prime Minister. Dr. Davis will provide support, advice and perspectives to the Prime Minister in the areas of Governance, with a focus on ensuring coherence and establishing priorities in the formulation and implementation of policies among the various ministries, public...

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Justice, Robert Rainford, said that government is committed to achieving a safe and harmonious society in which all citizens can live without fear and injustice. He was addressing Friday’s (Feb. 10) official opening of the Granville Restorative Justice Centre located in St. James. The facility was the fourth and final to open under the...

Jamaicans from all walks of life paid their last respects to Ambassador, the Hon. Dudley Thompson on Friday Feb. 10th. The Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, downtown Kingston, where the official funeral service was held, was packed to capacity, as the country's leaders, representatives of academia, the business sector, civil society, the diplomatic corps, and ordinary Jamaicans, turned out...

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Noel Arscott, says the Government is committed to upgrading the fire service across the island. Speaking at a specially convened meeting of the St. Ann Parish Council on February 8, Mr. Arscott pointed out that approximately 120 recruits graduated to join the Jamaica Fire Brigade, recently, and another 120 are to begin...