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Customer Relations Officer at the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), Staceyann Anderson, has been promoting the importance of storing garbage which is awaiting pick-up by the Authority's disposal trucks. She says that the garbage must be properly bagged, and suggested the use of 'scandal' bags to do so, if necessary. Mrs. Anderson urged that certain items should not be...

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Pearnel Charles, has pointed to the need for a new approach to labour relations in Jamaica, which is built on greater understanding and partnership between workers and employers. He noted that the industrial climate, as it now stands, is very challenging with interests on both sides making demands to counter economic realities. "We...

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Pearnel Charles, has advised middle managers to recognise the crucial role they have to play in ensuring the success of their businesses. "It is the middle managers who will have to motivate staff towards greater productivity," he said in his address at the inaugural Middle Managers' Conference held under the theme, 'Middle Managers:...

Many fathers are often taken to task for not taking care of their children, or for not playing an active role in their lives. Additionally, if one mentions the phrase: 'a parent who provides unconditional love, continuously makes sacrifices and totally devotes resources, time and energy to the development of a child', it is very likely that it would be...

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Pearnel Charles, says that the excellent record of students who are being supported by the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), shows that the programme is reaching the most vulnerable groups in the society. Mr. Charles said that since February, 2010 the total number of registered student beneficiaries stood at 201,414,...

Minister of Labour and Social Security, the Hon Pearnel Charles, has said that if registered nurses employed at public institutions do not resume normality by Thursday morning (April 8), the Ministry will take the matter of their sick-out to the Supreme Court. "We will wait and see what happens Thursday morning, before we decide whether to proceed to the Court...

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Pearnel Charles, has predicted that the implementation of Flexible Work Arrangements (FWAs) will allow for increased employment opportunities for Jamaicans. "We expect that more workers will go to work, more employers will be able to afford you working and the Decent Work Agenda, certainly, will be realised," he told Tuesday's (March 30) seminar...

An additional $2.9 billion has been earmarked in the 2010/11 Estimates of Expenditure, currently before the House of Representatives, to complete construction of the Montego Bay Convention Centre this year. The project, being executed by the Urban Development Corporation (UDC), aims to provide the resort city and its environs with adequate space to facilitate meetings, exhibitions and event-type activities. Additionally,...

The Government's capacity to analyse and manage development data is to be further improved with the provision of $ 7 million for the Support to National Development Planning Goals, Millennium Development Goals and the Human Development project in the 2010/2011 Estimates of Expenditure. Being implemented by the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), through funding from the United Nations Development Programme...

The late Archbishop Emeritus of Kingston, the Most Rev. Lawrence Burke, was hailed for his devotion to education and the Catholic Church at a memorial mass held last week at the St. Joseph Chapel of Regis College in Toronto, Canada. The event was organised by the St. George's College Old Boys Association (Ontario Chapter); the Immaculate Conception High School Alumnae...

The Government will be providing increased social protection support for the country's poor and vulnerable, who have been severely impacted by rising world food prices. A sum of $105 million has been set aside in the 2010/2011 Estimates of Expenditure, which is before the House of Representatives, for the Social Protection Support to Food Price Crisis project, which is being...

"Who am I? Black and beautiful Who am I? Smart and sensitive Who am I? Phenomenal and philosophical Who am I? I am me". The year 2007 was when Claudette Graham penned those words, not knowing that three years later she would have realized her true potential and that unearthing her hidden talents, would have transformed her into who she...