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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...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding provided Parliament today (February 8) with copies of a February 4 letter from Gorstew Ltd stating that the company is discontinuing a US$28.9 million legal claim against four Government agencies in matters relating to the Sandals Whitehouse hotel. Mr. Golding had informed Parliament last week that he would provide proof of the withdrawal of the claim today. "I had announced that I had word from Gordon...

Minister with responsibility for information, telecommunications and special projects in the Office of the Prime Minister, Daryl Vaz, will attend the information technology convention and trade fair, Informática 2011, which will be held in Havana, Cuba from February 7-11. The Minister will return to Jamaica on February 9. At the invitation of the Cuban Minister of Information and Communication, Minister...

Prime Minister Hon. Bruce Golding, has described the Late Ripton Stewart Macpherson as 'a gentleman of the highest order', one 'whose dedication to Parliament and the parliamentary process was recognized not only among those who served with him but recognized throughout the Commonwealth' and 'one of the finest speakers that our Parliament has produced'. “Ripton was a man who had...

PORT ANTONIO — The Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), will be staging a series of public fora islandwide, as part of its ongoing public education programme. These fora will seek to increase public awareness about its roles and functions, as well as to create feedback from its clients and consumers on its effectiveness. According to Public Education and Information Co-ordinator...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, has suggested that whoever is appointed to the new Office of Special Prosecutor, should approach the job with the same "ferocity and seriousness" as current Contractor General, Greg Christie. "I say that as someone who has not always agreed with the Contractor General's position…(but) I respect the seriousness with which he tackles his job,"...