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KINGSTON — Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, has informed that an additional $230 million is needed to cover the added expenses associated with the recently concluded 2011 Population and Housing Census. Speaking at a post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House on August 10, the Minister said this additional figure is contained in a...

KINGSTON — Cabinet has reviewed a proposal to expand land titling capacity under the Land Administration and Management Programme (LAMP). Speaking on Wednesday's August 10 Post Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House, Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, said that Government is considering combining two pieces of legislation to expand LAMP's land titling capacity....

KINGSTON — The Government has moved to strengthen the authority of the Consumer Affairs Commission to resolve consumer disputes. Speaking on Wednesday August 10 Post Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House, Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, said Cabinet has agreed to amend the Consumer Protection Act, 2005. Drafting instructions have been issued to...

KINGSTON — Chairman of the Broadcasting Commission, Dr. Hopeton Dunn, has suggested that school librarians develop the skills to support students and effectively manage library facilities. “We have to be prepared to embrace change in this 21st century. We have to become comfortable in a new environment,” Dr. Dunn stated. He was speaking on the topic, “Providing an Enabling Environment”,...

MONTEGO BAY — Prime Minister Hon. Bruce Golding has said that the Auditor General and all the functions attached to that office have been brought sharply into public focus because of the critical importance in the stemming and restoring of public confidence in government and governance. He was addressing several Auditors General representing some twenty countries at the opening ceremony of a...

KINGSTON — Cabinet has approved the signing of an Air Services Agreement between the Governments of Jamaica and the United Arab Emirates. This was disclosed by Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, at today's post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House. Mr. Vaz noted that the Air Services Agreement was negotiated within the context of...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) — New Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin LaRocque will assume duties on Monday 15 August, 2011, the Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas, Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM and Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, announced today. “Ambassador LaRocque assumes office as the Community's seventh Secretary-General, with...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding (left) is greeted by passengers on the train travelling to the Denbigh Agricultural and Industrial Show in Clarendon yesterday August 1. Prime Minister Golding, who delivered the main address at the 59th staging of the Agricultural Show, boarded the train at the Spanish Town Railway Station with several Government Ministers. Photographed also are:(right)Minister of Health, Rudyard...

KINGSTON — Twenty six youths from inner city communities were on Thursday (July 28) presented with certificates for completing a two-month course in youth entrepreneurship and financial literacy. The project, implemented by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), forms part of the European Union's (EU) Grants of Low Amounts III (GOLAS III) programme, which supports human and community development. It...

ST. MARY — Prime Minister, the Hon Bruce Golding, has urged young Jamaicans to use their training in more adventurous efforts to promote social and economic progress in the country. Addressing a Young Professionals Forum at the Rio Nuevo Great House, St. Mary, on Sunday (July 24), Mr. Golding encouraged them not to be afraid of taking decisions and pursuing...

KINGSTON — Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications, and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, says that Cabinet is to receive the first draft of the reformed defamation and libel legislation by September. Making the disclosure at the weekly Post Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House on Wednesday July 20, 2011, Mr. Vaz noted that the United States Agency for International...

KINGSTON — Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, says he is pleased with Jamaica's high press freedom ranking of 23 out of the 191 countries surveyed in the 2011 Freedom of the Press report. “At a time when Freedom House reports that the proportion of the world's population that has access to a free Press...