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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...

The Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP), in partnership with "Real Man Things", a radio programme aired on Power 106, will host a special Father's Day outside broadcast from Trench Town in South St. Andrew, on Sunday, June 20. The announcement was made by Communications and Social Marketing Coordinator at the CSJP, Gillian Scott, during an interview with JIS News...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. Dr. Kenneth Baugh, will chair a Cabinet sub-committee, which has been appointed to make recommendations in respect of persons to be conferred with national honours and awards, this year. Speaking at Wednesday's (June 16) post-Cabinet media briefing at Jamaica House, Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding said that the Treasury bill interest rates are now at a 28-year low, a positive effect of the Jamaica Debt Exchange Programme on the economy. Mr. Golding highlighted this during his address at the opening ceremony of Expo Jamaica at the National Arena yesterday (June 17). "Treasury bill rates are now under 10%....The last time we...

Prime Minister, Hon. Bruce Golding, has applauded teachers of schools in West Kingston for their continued commitment and service to the nation's children, particularly during "this critical game-changing period of the country's history". The Prime Minister, who visited schools in the area yesterday (June 17), said he recognized that the events of the last couple of weeks had impacted the...

Restoration work on Coronation Market in downtown Kingston is scheduled to commence on Monday, June 21, Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications, and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, has disclosed. A portion of the market, situated in the heart of the commercial downtown Kingston district, was torched during the violent upsurge in sections of West Kingston in May. Speaking at...

A team of technicians from Brazil's Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA) will be in Jamaica, June 21 to 22, to discuss Vision 2030, Jamaica's National Development Plan, with representatives of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ). Lead Consultant and Economic Specialist in the Plan Development Unit at the PIOJ, Richard Lumsden, said that the visit will enable the IPEA...

Special Representative of CARICOM Heads on Haiti, the Most Hon. P.J. Patterson, has stressed the support of the entire Caribbean for Haiti, as the reconstruction and recovery efforts continue there. Haiti is on the agenda for discussion at the 31st meeting of the CARICOM Heads of Government to be held in Montego Bay, July 4 to 7. Mr. Patterson was...

Residents of Jacks River, in St. Mary, are now enjoying a smooth ride, following the $23 million rehabilitation of the Bogagee road in the community. Work on the 2.3 kilometres of road was funded through the Government's Road Rehabilitation Programme, and implemented by the National Works Agency and the St. Mary Parish Council. The scope of work included asphalting of...

The fire safety public education programme implemented by the Trelawny Fire Brigade is achieving success in terms of reducing the incidence of fires in the parish, especially household fires. Acting Deputy Superintendent Wethesean Lamont, in an operational report presented at the monthly meeting of the Trelawny Parish Council on Thursday (June 10), said that the division responded to 31 genuine...