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More than 450 persons converged on the Port Antonio Primary School in Portland yesterday (May 12), to participate in the Registrar General's Department (RGD) special outreach, to educate persons about the birth registration process. The second in a series of outreaches organized in observance of Child Month, the outreach yielded 375 applications, the majority being birth applications. On hand to...

Effective Wednesday, March 31, the Metropolitan Transport Holdings Limited (MMTH) will cease to operate and its commercial functions will be incorporated within other public sector entities. Minister of Information, Senator Burchell Whiteman made the disclosure on Monday (March 29) at the weekly post-Cabinet Press Briefing at Jamaica House. Outlining the reason for the winding-up of the government entity, Senator Whiteman...

State Minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture, Donald Rhodd has lamented the breakdown in the family structure, noting that the society was in need of parents who were not afraid to instill discipline while at the same time being a friend, a brother, or a sister to their children. Dr. Rhodd, who was speaking at a Parenting...

The Caribbean's first network access facility, the Jamaica Network Access Point (JNAP), was officially launched on March 2 to offer a wide range of solutions for corporate data and telecommunications networking needs. The facility, located at the Digital building on Knutsford Boulevard in New Kingston, opened its doors a year ago. It is a co-location facility or 'Telecom Hotel' that...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministerial Subcommittee for Resource Mobilization in collaboration with the United Kingdom (UK) will be seeking to establish a Regional Information and Intelligence Sharing Network. This network is aimed at developing domestic and regional connectivity to generate tactical and strategic intelligence. The Intelligence Sharing Network was one of several initiatives, which came out of Wednesday's (March 3)...

Contractor General, Derrick McKoy is appealing to public sector entities to monitor the level of customer satisfaction that is being experienced by their clients. He also noted that preliminary research findings had shown that executive agencies still faced some challenges in improving their customer service delivery. The extent of this perception varies however, depending on the demographics of the respondents....

Media practitioners are being invited to attend a workshop on human rights at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston on Friday, February 6 from 9:00 am to noon. Sponsored by the Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in collaboration with the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), the event is designed to sensitize media personnel about the activities of the Commission...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), is assisting to transform community radio stations into multimedia centres, thereby facilitating the development of a knowledge-based society. This was noted by Vilma Gregory, Head of the Multimedia Centre at the University of Technology (UTech), in an interview with JIS News at the multimedia exhibition, which formed part of the just...

Laureate of the 2003 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, Amira Hass, has said that the award showed international recognition and respect for her work, but accepted it with mixed feelings, because it was in stark contrast to the unease, with which her work was being read in Israel. In her acceptance speech at King's House on Friday, May 2,...

Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Ko

Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), arrived in the island yesterday (May 1) for his first official visit to the country. Speaking to journalists on his arrival at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, the Director-General, who opened the World Press Freedom Conference today (May 2) at the Jamaica Conference Centre, noted...

Over 150 delegates from countries around the world are expected in the island for the World Press Freedom Day Conference, to be held at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston from May 2 to 3. To be conducted in English, French and Spanish, the Conference will see the participation of a number of Caribbean delegates, including officials from Jamaica, Grenada,...