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Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, has underscored Jamaica’s commitment to Haiti, in a brief address to the House of Representatives on the withdrawal of the French-speaking country’s Under-17 football team from a CONCACAF tournament being held in Montego Bay. Mr. Golding spoke on the matter following a statement by Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, on the events leading...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding says that any commission of inquiry to find out the cause of the deaths of some 73 persons last May in Tivoli Gardens would need to be informed by the findings of the Public Defender. The Public Defender has indicated that his report will not be ready before September, Mr. Golding said. Mr. Golding was responding to...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding says the church is the most powerful social institution but that power has largely been immobilized because churches have never found a way to come together. “There is no institution other than the church that can speak with the kind of prophetic authority because your (church) authority is not founded in any Constitution” PM Golding said. He was...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding the immediate past Chairman of CARICOM, leaves Jamaica on Wednesday, (February 23) to attend CARICOM meetings in Grenada from Thursday, (February 24- ) to Saturday (February 26). Mr. Golding will attend two CARICOM meetings in Grenada. The Prime Ministerial sub-committee on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy will be on Thursday, February 24 and the CARICOM Inter- Sessional...

Community leaders from across the parish of St. Catherine on February 18 participated in a workshop aimed at promoting awareness of the Vision 2030 Jamaica national development plan and its various benefits. The workshop, held at the Social Development Commission (SDC) office in Spanish Town, was the penultimate session in an island-wide series organised by the Planning Institute of Jamaica...

The Port Antonio Baptist Church, Portland, has embarked on a number of missions to improve the lives of persons in the parish. One initiative is a breakfast programme which feeds approximately 30 homeless persons in Port Antonio each Monday, and a lunch programme providing a hot meal for over 50 indigents/shut-ins on Thursdays. Dubbed God’s Table Initiative, the project is...

Commissioner of the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica (BCJ), Elaine Wallace, is urging the public to become familiarised with the recommendations in the Electronic Media Regulatory and Policy Framework Consultation report. She said that the report, available at the BCJ’s website: www.broadcastingcommission.org proposes new policies for the regulation of the electronic broadcasting sector, and to improve the service provided to the...

State Minister with responsibility for Local Government, Hon. Robert Montague, says discussions will be held with mayors and chairmen of Parish Council’s who have divisions that are without local government representation, to decide on a convenient date when elections can be held to fill those vacancies. The move follows the approval of legislation in the House of Representatives on February...

The Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) is to receive assistance from the World Bank to upgrade and improve its calibration capabilities in its testing laboratory for refrigerators and freezers. This was disclosed by Executive Director of the BSJ, Noel G. Osbourne at a JIS ‘Think Tank’, on February 14. Mr. Osbourne said this is one of the significant projects being...

Minister with oversight for information, telecommunications and special projects, Daryl Vaz, will next week participate in a mobile industry trade show aimed at advancing the build-out of GovNet, the project to make communications within the Government and with the citizenry more efficient and effective. The trade show, called Mobile World Congress, will run from February 14-17 in Barcelona, Spain. He will be accompanied...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, on February 8 provided Parliament with documentary evidence that Gorstew Limited was dropping its US$28.9 million lawsuit against the Government for losses in relation to the Sandals Whitehouse hotel in Westmoreland. Mr. Golding in responding to questions posed by Opposition spokesperson on Tourism, Dr. Wykeham McNeil last week, had promised to take written proof...

State Minister in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Senator Arthur Williams, says the public sector leave system is to be reformed to make it more equitable, and in line with what is obtained in other jurisdictions. “As Chairman of the Public Sector Monitoring Committee,  I have mandated the members to meet and review these public sector leave...