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Acting Director General, Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), Richard Thompson, addressing the official launch of Earthquake Awareness Month at the ODPEM Haining Road location in Kingston yesterday (Jan. 6). Listening at left is Minister of State in the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Colin Fagan.
Acting Director General, Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), Richard Thompson, addressing the official launch of Earthquake Awareness Month at the ODPEM Haining Road location in Kingston yesterday (Jan. 6). Listening at left is Minister of State in the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Colin Fagan.

ODPEM Develops Earthquake Road Map

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) has crafted a national road map, aimed at strengthening the country’s capacity to mitigate the effects of earthquakes. The road map, developed in conjunction with United Nations development partners, addresses the...
Executive Director of JADCO, Carey Brown, tells JIS News that the Commission is currently working on its new anti-doping rules in time for the revised WADA, Code which takes effect on January 1, 2015.
Executive Director of JADCO, Carey Brown, tells JIS News that the Commission is currently working on its new anti-doping rules in time for the revised WADA, Code which takes effect on January 1, 2015.

JADCO Ready for Revised WADA Code
Leader of the Opposition, The Most Honourable Portia Simpson Miller, O.N., M.P.
Leader of the Opposition, The Most Honourable Portia Simpson Miller, O.N., M.P.

Prime Minister Urges Greater Caution on Roads
Logistics Coordinator for the Government’s National Health Emergency Response to the Chikungunya Virus (Chik V), the Jamaica Defence Force’s (JDF) Colonel Daniel Pryce (right), and other members of the JDF observe as their colleague cleans a drain in Washington Mews, Naggo Head, in Portmore, St. Catherine, during Saturday’s (November 8) vector control and clean-up activities in community. Saturday’s activities also involved representatives from the Ministries of Health, and Local Government and Community Development; Portmore Municipal Council; Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM); National Works Agency (NWA); National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA); and Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). (FILE)
Logistics Coordinator for the Government’s National Health Emergency Response to the Chikungunya Virus (Chik V), the Jamaica Defence Force’s (JDF) Colonel Daniel Pryce (right), and other members of the JDF observe as their colleague cleans a drain in Washington Mews, Naggo Head, in Portmore, St. Catherine, during Saturday’s (November 8) vector control and clean-up activities in community. Saturday’s activities also involved representatives from the Ministries of Health, and Local Government and Community Development; Portmore Municipal Council; Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM); National Works Agency (NWA); National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA); and Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). (FILE)

Most MPs Have Submitted Work Programmes to Combat Chik-V
Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer (centre), gives her remarks at a press briefing held at Jamaica House today (December 17), with members of the National Council of the Partnership for Jamaica. Listening (from left) are: Ambassador Patricia Durrant, Donna Parchment Brown, and Rev. Lenworth Anglin, Members of the Partnership’s Governance Committee; President, Private Sector Organization of Jamaica, Chris Zacca; Representative of the Confederation of Trade Union, Oneil Grant; and Representative of the Civil Society Group, Bishop Joseph Ade Gold.
Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer (centre), gives her remarks at a press briefing held at Jamaica House today (December 17), with members of the National Council of the Partnership for Jamaica. Listening (from left) are: Ambassador Patricia Durrant, Donna Parchment Brown, and Rev. Lenworth Anglin, Members of the Partnership’s Governance Committee; President, Private Sector Organization of Jamaica, Chris Zacca; Representative of the Confederation of Trade Union, Oneil Grant; and Representative of the Civil Society Group, Bishop Joseph Ade Gold.

Partnership for Jamaica Membership Commits to Agreement

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Office of the Services Commissions Clarifies Selection Process for Public Defender Post

PRESS RELEASE OFFICE OF THE SERVICES COMMISSIONS JANUARY 6, 2015   The Office of the Services Commissions, which is the Secretariat to the Public Service Commission, notes with concern the recent media reports regarding its role in the selection process for the post of Public Defender.  Consequently the following clarification is provided. His Excellency The Governor-General requested that the Public...
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Office of the Prime Minister

Traffic Changes to Facilitate ‘Fireworks On The Waterfront’

The Police are advising motorists that there will be several traffic changes in downtown Kingston, on Wednesday, December 31, to facilitate the annual ‘Fireworks on the Waterfront’ event. The changes took effect at 6:00 a.m. Wednesday, and will remain until 2:00 a.m. on Thursday, January 1, 2015. Among the streets that will be closed to vehicular traffic are: Ocean Boulevard...
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Leader of the Opposition, The Most Honourable Portia Simpson Miller, O.N., M.P.
Office of the Prime Minister

Prime Minister Simpson Miller Welcomes New US-Cuba Relations

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller says the Government of Jamaica enthusiastically welcomes the joint announcement in Washington and Havana today of the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States of America and Cuba, and she has congratulated United States President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro on the historic development and for their bold and visionary leadership on...
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Leader of the Opposition, The Most Honourable Portia Simpson Miller, O.N., M.P.
Office of the Prime Minister

Congratulatory Message from the PM on the World Record Swim by Jamaican Athlete, Alia Atkinson

I extend heartiest congratulations to our spectacular athlete, Alia Atkinson, Jamaican sportswoman, Olympian, gold medalist and joint world record holder for the 100 metre breaststroke at the 12th FINA World Swimming Championships in Doha, Qatar on December 6. I was in Cuba when the news came of Alia’s outstanding achievement in Doha. Heads of Governments from across the Caribbean region...
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Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller greets Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla on her arrival at the Revolution Palace in Havana for the Fifth CARICOM-Cuba Summit on December 8. (JIS PHOTO/Dave Reid)
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PM Simpson Miller Credits Cuba With Assisting Jamaica’s Athletics Success

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller has credited Cuba with assisting Jamaica to become a world leader in athletics, noting that the GC Foster College, which was a gift to Jamaica from Cuba in the 1970s, has been responsible for training many of Jamaica´s outstanding athletes and coaches. The Prime Minister adds that through the GC Foster College,...
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