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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...

Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Dr. Gladstone Hutchinson has added his voice for an efficient, high quality public sector for good governance, and economic advancement. Speaking at the 17th annual public lecture, hosted by the Management Institute for National Development (MIND) at its old Hope Road campus, on August 19, he asserted that a public sector...

Jamaica has been lauded for the significant achievements it has attained in advancing disaster risk management. "The country has a national policy which other countries do not have, and Jamaica has an agency in charge of response and emergency, which other countries do not have," Division Chief, Rural Development, Environment and Disaster Risk Management at the Inter-American Development Bank, (IDB),...

Public sector workers and unions must appreciate their role in the country's delicate fiscal situation, as wage demands that push inflation, worsen debt, or compromise the Government's ability to improve the economy, will erode economic and social credibility. This caution was issued by Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Dr. Gladstone Hutchinson yesterday (Aug. 19) at the...

Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Dr. Gladstone Hutchinson says the Vision 2030 Jamaica National Development Plan incorporates many steps, to ensure that it is a viable option for the country. "It incorporates lessons learned from the errors of previous plans and all the best practices regionally and globally, and is flexible and responsive," the PIOJ Head...

Residents of Tredegar Park, St. Catherine, who have been traumatised by last week's attack on the community, were provided with counselling and therapy sessions at the Tredegar Park Seventh-Day Adventist Church Thursday (August 19). Senior Social Worker with the Peace Management Initiative (PMI), Berthlyn Plummer, speaking with JIS News about the social intervention that took place in Tredegar Park, St....

Members of the public and the media are being urged to come out in their numbers for the Management Institute for National Development's (MIND) 17th annual public lecture on Thursday (Aug. 19). The event will be held at the institution's main campus at 253A Old Hope Road, Kingston 6, beginning at 5:30 p.m. Under the theme: 'Vision 2030 National Development...

The permit system introduced by the Trelawny Parish Council to control traffic in the town of Falmouth is reaping success, according to the Mayor, Councillor Colin Gager. In an interview with JIS News, the Mayor said the system, which was launched in February for parking in designated areas, has been one of the major successes of the council. "Notwithstanding the...

Jamaica is making progress in terms of gender equality and the elimination of discrimination against women, Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange, has said. Miss Grange, who has responsibility for Women's Affairs and Gender Issues, was speaking after updating Cabinet on the contents of Jamaica's Combined Sixth and Seventh Periodic Report Under the Convention of the Elimination...

"I was the devil," Nicholas Miller says, eliciting gasps from the crowd, as he gives a poignant synopsis of his past as a 'corner boy' in an inner-city community in Kingston. The hushed, attentive audience, gathered at the Fletchers Land community centre in Kingston, is enthralled, as Nicholas describes the "the dark place" he was in, committing crimes and creating...