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Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding, is scheduled to meet with heads of private sector organisations at Jamaica House on Thursday morning (September 2), to discuss a number of national issues of concern. This was disclosed by Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, at a post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House on September 1....

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, launched the St. Elizabeth leg of the Government's massive Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP), estimated to cost some $36 billion, at the Lewisville High School, in St. Elizabeth on Tuesday (August 31). The full programme includes significant upgrading and repairs to roads and bridges across the island over the next five years. The St....

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding said that Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw, has assured him that the inflation rate for this fiscal year would finish lower than what was projected. He was speaking at the launch of the Jamaica Infrastructure Development Programme (JIDP) in Lewisville, St. Elizabeth on August 31. Mr. Golding, who repeated...

The St. Elizabeth Parish Council Monday (August 30) held a workshop for members of its disaster management operation, representing some 30 persons drawn from various agencies, at the Port of Call Hotel. Mayor of Black River, Councillor Jeremy Palmer, told JIS News that the training was an opportunity to refresh members of the Parish's Emergency Operations Centre (PEOC) of their...

Programme Manager of the Planning Institute of Jamaica's (PIOJ) Plan Development Unit, Richard Lumsden, is reporting significant improvements in the four key focus areas pivotal to advancing the country's National Development Plan - Vision 2030. He cited the areas as: empowering persons to achieve their full potential; making the society secure, cohesive and just; making the Jamaican economy prosperous; and...

Come September 1, 2010, the Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ) will be implementing Section 121 of the Companies Act, which will provide for a penalty of $100 per day up to a maximum of $10,000, to be paid on all Annual Returns that are filed late. Addressing a JIS 'Think Tank' on August 26, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding says despite the reported reduction in all major crimes committed between June and mid-August, there is still much more work to be done by the security forces, to further reduce these. Speaking at the handing over of funds by three corporate entities for the restoration of the Darling Street police station, at the facility,...

Prime Minister of Jamaica, Hon. Bruce Golding, joined representatives of the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) in welcoming Miss Universe 2010 first runner-up, Yendi Phillips, at the Sangster International Airport, Montego Bay, as she returned home on Friday (August 27). Miss Phillips placed second at the 2010 Miss Universe contest at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada on...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding is urging bankers to find innovative ways of earning profits or recovering losses, instead of imposing exorbitant banking fees and interest rates on customers. Mr. Golding said he was not suggesting that charges be reduced arbitrarily, but "it is not going to be acceptable to the consumers of banking services simply for banks to...

Beeston Spring in Westmoreland was named the Best Community in Jamaica at the National Best Community Foundation's award ceremony, on Thursday (August 26), at the Stella Maris Pastoral Centre in Kingston. The National Best Community Competition and Programme encourages local governance and sustainable community development through relevant programmes and self-help initiatives, annually. Priority areas judged in the competition are: built...

Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Dr. Gladstone Hutchinson, has stressed the importance of macro-economic planners incorporating disaster risk management into national plans. "As planners, we can no longer sit back and wait to carry out post assessment of hazard impacts. We have to be proactive; we have to plan, rather than just respond to a crisis...

Director General of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), Ronald Jackson, has called for more investment in disaster management. Mr. Jackson said that, while the agency has been promoting disaster risk mitigation particularly at the community level, as one of its priority areas, there needs to be more investing in macro-economic mitigation infrastructure, such as coastal sea...