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The St. Elizabeth Parish Council has doubled its complement of municipal police officers, by swearing in eight more on Thursday (March 11). At the installation ceremony at the Council chamber, Mayor of Black River, Councillor Jeremy Palmer, charged the new officers to serve without partiality but with restraint in their use of force. "The power of the office is not...

There has been a slow down in the implementation of Rural Electrification Programme (REP) projects in Hanover. This has been primarily attributed to the lack of funds and, as a result, Councillors in the Hanover Parish Council have been advised to seek assistance from their Members of Parliament, through their Community Development Fund (CDF) allocation, to carry on the projects....

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Delroy Chuck, has called on residents of Kingston to unite to transform and rehabilitate the city of Kingston into the place of choice for visitors to the Caribbean. Mr. Chuck said he was very displeased at the state that the city has fallen into and believed Jamaicans needed to work together to restore...

The Municipal Police Corps of the Department of Local Government has been strengthened with the addition of 28 new officers to increase the establishment to 180 members. The new officers, who participated in a five-week basic municipal police training course at the Jamaica Police Academy, Twickenham Park, St. Catherine, between February 1 and March 4, represent the seventh cohort intake...

Several historic buildings in the town of Falmouth, Trelawny, are to be restored and others receiving a face-lift, through the joint effort of Royal Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises and IDEA Orlando, Florida, in the United States. This was disclosed by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of IDEA, Mr. Hugh Darley, whose company is responsible for leading the Falmouth restoration effort,...

Residents of Portmore have been encouraged to come up with projects that will benefit their communities and work towards implementing them. The call came from Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister, with responsibility for Local Government, Hon. Robert Montague, at a Visioning Symposium, held yesterday (March 6), at the Portmore HEART Academy in Portmore, under the...

The National Works Agency (NWA) is working on the establishment of a traffic management centre for Montego Bay, as part of a comprehensive traffic management programme for the tourist capital. The programme will also involve putting in closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras and an incident management system. NWA Manager of Communications and Customer Services, Mr. Stephen Shaw, informed that the...

It was standing room only at the Sean Lavery Faith Hall in Savanna-la-mar yesterday (March 1), as representatives of political, social and business groups and ordinary residents turned out in numbers for the Westmoreland leg of the Parish Visioning Symposia. The Westmoreland symposium was the eight in a series of sessions being staged in parishes across the island by the...

Mayor of Mandeville, Councilor Brenda Ramsay, and Mayor of May Pen, Councilor Milton Brown, have welcomed the newly established South Coast Chapter of the Realtors Association of Jamaica. "Owning a home is desirous for most persons, and when they are doing so, they need the best professional and honest advice. Your organisation is most welcomed, and must be that source...

Mayor of the Municipality of Portmore, in St. Catherine, Keith Hinds, is calling for the operators of the Portmore leg of Highway 2000 to place five per cent of all monthly gains at the toll into a special fund, which would go towards rehabilitating the roadways in the community. The Mayor proposes that the fund be called the Portmore Road...

A ban on cigarette smoking will shortly be introduced within the entire designated area of Emancipation Square in Spanish Town, St. Catherine. The Square will be the first Smokefree Square in the Caribbean, when a declaration is officially unveiled in March. The initiative is a joint project of the Smoke Free Action Coalition in Spanish Town and the St. Catherine...

Mayor of Black River, Councillor Jeremy Palmer, has appealed to persons in St. Elizabeth to desist from lighting fires, as this is causing a drain on the recourses of the fire brigade in the parish. Speaking to journalists after the monthly meeting of the Council on February 11, the Mayor pointed out that there are laws governing the ways fires...