Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Noel Arscott, is appealing to Jamaicans to pay over the $2.8 billion in outstanding property taxes for the current fiscal year. This will ensure that the target of $7.26 billion for the financial year is met, the Minister said. “I am making a special appeal for this gap to be filled. The...

More than 4,000 tablet computers have been distributed to 13 of the 38 schools earmarked to benefit under the Government’s $1.4 billion Tablets in Schools pilot project, which began in September. Distribution of the tablets, which is being done by e-Learning Jamaica Company Limited, an agency of the Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Ministry, is currently in progress at another...

Members of Parliament have been allocated $126 million for clean-up activities with each constituency to receive $2 million. The amount is part of $500 million earmarked by Government for the National Health Emergency Response to the Chikungunya Virus (CHIK V), including elimination of mosquito breeding sites. Already, $150 million has been set aside for the Health Ministry to meet “some...

The Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) will be deploying some 31 volunteers throughout the municipality on October 15 in its public education drive to control the Chikungunya virus, which is transmitted by the aedes aegypti mosquito. Ongoing work has been on in earnest by the KSAC, and several Ministries and agencies, to clear areas where the outbreak has been...

Mayor of Montego Bay, Councillor Glendon Harris, says it is time for the city to be moved towards attaining some of the potential for which it was granted city status in 1980. Speaking on October 9, at the Montego Bay Cultural Centre at a ceremony to celebrate the 34th year of the granting of city status to the St. James...

The annual Atlanta/Montego Bay Sister Cities Health Mission has been renamed the Vin Martin Atlanta/Montego Bay Health Mission, in honour of the late founding member of the mission. Mayor of Montego Bay and Chairman of the St. James Parish Council, Glendon Harris, made the announcement at the opening of the 2014 mission on Monday, October 6, at the St. John’s...

The Ministry of Local of Government and Community Development has given the thumbs up to the Caribbean Conference on Solid Waste Management, which ended on October 3, at the Hilton Rose Hall Resort in Montego Bay, St. James. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Dione Jennings, said the discussions over the four days were fruitful, and the way is now paved...