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Members of staff at the ODPEM listen intently as the team from Argentina outlines capability of the proposed volunteers’ database.

National Disaster Risk Management Volunteers’ Programme (NDRMVP)

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) as the secretariat for the National Disaster Risk Management Volunteers’ Programme (NDRMVP) is to design a database application that will serve as the archive for volunteer data at all levels. The...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller (centre), shares a moment with Joan McClure (left) and her daughter Trevonne McClure, who will be attending St. Catherine High School in September. Occasion was a Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) awards function held on August 13, at Jamaica House, where 17 students of staff employed to the Office of the Cabinet and Office of the Prime Minister were presented with book vouchers valued at $5,000 each.

Put Aside Negative Thoughts – PM

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller (left) is pleased to hand over a Certificate of Title to Ms. Linda Wellington at the launch of the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing’s National Land Titling Programme and Certificates of Title Handing-over Ceremony at the Christ the Redeemer Church, Seaview Gardens in Kingston on Wednesday, August 12. Ms. Wellington was among 63 persons from the Tower Hill, Seaview Gardens and Seaward Pen communities of Kingston who received land titles.

Prime Minister Launches National Land Titling Programme

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller (third left), makes a point to Councillor for the Payne Land Division, Audrey Smith-Facey (left). Listening (from second left) are: Executive Director of the United States-based Joseph Assignment Global Initiative, Mordecai Buckley; Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Lead Volunteer, Dr. Alexia Felder; and Co-Founder, Dr. Trunell Felder. Occasion was a tour of several sections of the Payne Land Division in Kingston on Wednesday, August 12. The visiting humanitarian group has been undertaking various capacity-building initiatives in the community over the past two weeks.

PM Praises Work of Joseph Assignment Global Initiative

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, look at the National Land Titling Programme sign, which was unveiled at the official launch of the programme and presentation of certificates of title, at Christ the Redeemer Church in Seaview Gardens on August 12. Others applauding the launch (from left) are: Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing, Audrey Sewell; Chief Technical Director in the Ministry, Doreen Prendergast; Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry, Hon. Dr Morais Guy; Member of Parliament for Western St. Andrew and Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton; Chief Executive Officer of the Administrator General’s Department, Lona Brown; and Managing Director of the Housing Agency of Jamaica, Karl Bennett.

More Than 40,000 Jamaicans to Receive Land Titles

Managing Director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeney, addressing a recent JIS ‘Think Tank’.

11 years ago Office of the Prime Minister

JSIF Spends $4 Billion to Finance School Projects

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) is making a significant contribution to education, as part of its mandate to facilitate empowerment and assist in nation building. A sum of $4 billion has been spent over the past 19 years to finance various school related projects and programmes, under the JSIF’s National Poverty Eradication Programme (NPEP). “The JSIF is a...

Photo Caption: Charge D’Affaires of the Embassy of Jamaica, Mrs. Marsha Coore-Lobban (front left), joins the large congregation in singing a hymn of praise at the annual church service of thanksgiving commemorating Jamaica’s 53rd year of independence at the Dunbarton Chapel, Howard University School of Law on Sunday, August 2, 2015.

11 years ago Foreign AffairsOffice of the Prime Minister

Human Capital Jamaica’s Greatest Asset-PM

Prime Minister, the Most Honorable Portia Simpson-Miller says Jamaica has produced an invaluable array of human capital that continues to represent the country’s greatest national asset for social development and economic growth. “It is our people supported by a system of high quality education and relevant world-class training that must now provide the next great leap forward for the nation,”...

11 years ago CultureOffice of the Prime MinisterPrime Minister

Independence Day Message from Prime Minister the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller

My Fellow Jamaicans: The detachment of Jamaica from the British colonial scaffold 53 years ago, and our emergence as an independent nation-state, was as seminal a moment as it was sensational. We chose to take the reigns of our destiny firmly in our hands, and pledged to forge a just and progressive nation from the rejected colonialism. ...

11 years ago Office of the Prime MinisterVision 2030

Over $10B Spent on Poverty Reduction Project Implementation in Jamaica

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) has spent over $10 billion to implement upwards of 1,600 projects in four parishes, under the European Union (EU) funded, Poverty Reduction Programme (PRP). Approximately 1.6 million Jamaicans from 544 communities have, to date, benefitted under the programme, which is in its third phase (PRP III), has been channelled through engagements undertaken in education,...

Adrian Lindo, participant in the University of Technology Students Council’s summer outreach project, ‘Teach the Youth’, answers a question posed by Director of Corporate Services, Jamaica Information Service, Errol Gardner, during an empowerment session at the August Town community centre on July 30.

11 years ago Office of the Prime Minister

Volunteers Give Passing Grade to Summer Programme in August Town

Volunteers who worked with the August Town group of students in the University of Technology Students Council’s summer outreach project, ‘Teach the Youth’, have given this year’s programme a passing grade in both the academic and personal development components. “I think we achieved our goal at 75 per cent,” Rhoshmaine Chambers, Centre Manager for August Town, told JIS News on...

Minister with Responsibility for Information, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer.

11 years ago InformationOffice of the Prime Minister

Information Minister Hails Winston Sill as ‘One Of The Country’s Finest’

It is with deep regret that I note the passing of Gleaner photographer, Winston Sill, one of the country’s finest in the field. Winston Sill had a long and distinguished history in photo journalism, not only having worked at the Gleaner for the past 24 years but even before that, in the 1970s, at the now defunct Jamaica Daily News....

Minister of State in the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Colin Fagan (right), addressing members of the Westmoreland office of the Social Development Commission (SDC), during a

11 years ago Office of the Prime Minister

SDC To Be Strengthened

To further strengthen the Social Development Commission (SDC) to facilitate the economic and social empowerment of communities islandwide, Minister of State in the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Colin Fagan, is on a series of fact-finding visits to all parish offices. Speaking with JIS News at the Westmoreland SDC office in Savanna-La-Mar, on July 29, the State...