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Plans are afoot to set up a community recording studio next to the newly refurbished Three Hills Community Centre and Sports Complex, in Western St. Mary. This announcement was made last week by State Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, with responsibility for Local Government, Hon. Robert Montague, at the handing over ceremony for the centre and sports...

Chief Technical Director in the Public Sector Modernisation Division, Cabinet Office, Marjorie Johnson, has implored members of the public sector to take seriously, their responsibility as service providers to the citizens of Jamaica. Chief Technical Director in the Public Sector Modernisation Division, Cabinet Office, Marjorie Johnson (right) shows Marketing Consultant, Zachary Harding (centre) a copy of the poster of this...

On Monday (June 28), when the International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) 2010 Conference for Air Services Negotiations (ICAN) officially begins in Montego Bay, St. James, Regional Approach in Air Transport Liberalization will be one of the much anticipated topics of discussion. The session will see delegates from 42 member states, drawn from the nine ICAO regional groupings; share their experiences...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding leaves the island tomorrow (June 24) to attend a special session of the G8 Summit in Muskoka, Canada. Mr. Golding is one of three leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean who have been invited to the Summit, the others being Presidents Alvaro Uribe of Columbia and Rene Preval of Haiti. Heads of Government of seven...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding said that Government was actively pursuing international expertise and resources in order to shut down international narcotic networks. Mr. Golding said that equipment for the security forces will be arriving from the United States of America, and that Government was also pursuing technical assistance through the newly expanded Caribbean regional security initiative. "We are expecting to...

The final in a series of meetings for a Numeracy Invasion Campaign in western St. Mary, was held at the Galina Primary and Infant School on June 16. The meetings, which were initiated by the Member of Parliament, Hon. Robert Montague, saw representatives from the Ministry of Education and HEART Trust/NTA, among other agencies, interfacing with parents as well as...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, has said that the Caribbean region is nowhere near where it should be in terms of environmental protection, although the level of awareness is much higher than it was 20 to 30 years ago. Mr. Golding bemoaned the fact that the greatest threat to the environment in the region, comes from the creeping degradation...

International Telecommunications Industry Consultant and Columbia University Professor, Dr. Raul Katz, has been confirmed for the Broadcasting Commission's Regional Regulators' Forum on Policy and Regulation in the Electronic Media to be held next month. The forum, which was originally scheduled for June, was postponed following the declaration of a state of emergency for the parishes of Kingston and St. Andrew....

A team of technicians from Brazil's Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA) were today (June 21), briefed by representatives from the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), on Jamaica's national development plan - Vision 2030. Lead Consultant in the Planning and Development Unit at the PIOJ, Richard Lumsden, explained to the Brazilian team that the overall aim for the Vision 2030...

Acting Senior Director in the Standards, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit of the Public Sector Modernisation Division, Cabinet Office, Michele Gordon-Somers is calling on Jamaicans to hold the public sector accountable for quality customer service. In an interview with JIS News on the upcoming launch of the Fifth staging of the Public Sector Customer Service Competition on Wednesday, June 23, at...

The National Land Agency (NLA), which brings together the Government's core land information functions, will during this financial year, undertake a raft of initiatives aimed at improving its services. Speaking with the JIS, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), of the NLA, Mrs. Elizabeth Stair, notes that chief among the initiatives is the implementation of new security features for its Certificate of...

The Registrar General's Department (RGD) is once again appealing to fathers to add their particulars to their children's birth certificates at the time of birth, as the Department seeks to achieve 100 per cent compliance in this area. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the RGD, Dr. Patricia Holness, has disclosed that, since the start of the Department's bedside registration drive...