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KINGSTON — Firefighters at the May Pen fire station in Clarendon are operating from improved facilities, which will better enable them to carry out their job to protect lives and property. Through funds provided by the Department of Local Government, Central Clarendon Member of Parliament, Hon. Michael Henry, and the May Pen business community, the firemen laboured for more than...

MONTEGO BAY — Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, has announced that a major investment conference will be held this year, as Government looks to encourage and attract more investment in the major sectors, including tourism. He was speaking on September 18 at the launch of Jamaica Product Exchange (JAPEX) 2011 at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in Rose Hall,...

KINGSTON — Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China, His Excellency Hui Liangyu, who is in the island for a three-day working visit was met by officials, led by Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Robert Montague, on his arrival at the Norman Manley International Airport, today September 19. Mr. Liangyu, who arrived in the island on Sunday September...

MONTEGO BAY — Prime Minister, the Hon Bruce Golding, has said that through the proposed establishment of the multi-billion dollar, 4,000-room Harmony Cove Resort in Trelawny, Jamaica plans to diversify its tourism offering to become an unforgettable luxury destination. Addressing a special luncheon with the President of the EXIM Bank of China, and accompanying leaders of that country’s business sector,...

KINGSTON — Mountain View Community resident, Natasha Gunter, was among the hundreds of parents and guardians, who turned up at the East Queen Street Baptist Church, downtown Kingston this morning (Sept. 15), as the Registrar General's Department (RGD) series of registration fairs got underway. They were eager to take advantage of the opportunity to acquire a free birth certificate for...

KINGSTON — Prime Minister Bruce Golding said Thursday (September 15) that his Government is looking at removing infrastructural limitations to land titling, as well as giving rural land owners access to non-agricultural loans under its new land titling programme – Land Access for National Development (LAND). Mr. Golding said that more than 50 percent of some 800,000 parcels of land...

KINGSTON — Cabinet has approved an amendment to the General Consumption Tax (GCT) Act, to provide for the re-introduction of a Special Consumption Tax (SCT) on energy drinks. Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, told Wednesday's (September 14) Post- Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House, that the new definition of energy drinks will be...

KINGSTON — Jamaica’s Prime Minister, the Hon Bruce Golding, has joined other top level CARICOM leaders in putting forward proposals to address the current state of West Indies cricket. Mr. Golding is in Trinidad and Tobago attending the Seventeenth Meeting of the Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on Cricket (PMSC). According to the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), Mr. Golding held critical and...

KINGSTON — The Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS) and the Registrar General's Department (RGD) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) establishing the Civil Registration Initiative to assist Programme for Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) householders to be documented. Labour and Social Security Minister, Hon. Pearnel Charles, speaking at the signing at the Courtleigh Hotel, New Kingston,...

KINGSTON — Jamaica's trade unions have re-affirmed their commitment to supporting the Government's public sector transformation programme to create a cost-effective and efficient public service that is capable of fulfilling economic and social development goals. "We support reform or transformation initiatives, which are aimed at developing and delivering quality public services, making them more relevant to the needs of the...

KINGSTON — At least 100 inner city youths, aged 16-29 years old, stand a chance of being inserted into the job market as micro-franchises, under a Private Sector Organization of Jamaica (PSOJ)/ Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) programme for at risk youths. Dubbed "Microfranchise as Tool for Economic Promotion of Youth at Risk’, the programme, which costs just under US$300,000, aims...

KINGSTON — Chief Executive Officer of the Public Sector Transformation Unit (PSTU), Patricia Sinclair-McCalla, is advocating developing more Government properties across the island. She says that this would reduce the high sums being paid to rent office space for various ministries, departments and agencies. Her call comes against the background of the state of disrepair into which many Government-owned properties...