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Cabinet has given instructions to the Chief Parliamentary Counsel for the drafting of legislation to establish a national building control framework for the country. Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, speaking at a recent post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House, explained that the framework includes a new building code and a National Building Act....

Members of the Swaby's Hope community in Manchester have come together to assist one of their own who is ailing with cancer. At a fundraising event hosted by the Citizen's Association and Community Sport Club on Sunday (March 28) at the Swaby's New Testament Church of God, more than $100,000 was raised for Denise Salmon, who is also visually impaired....

Over the next year, a disaster emergency plan is to be developed for each of the 41 child care institutions that have been selected under a project being implemented by the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM). As contained in the 2010/2011 Estimates of Expenditure, $7.2 million has been set aside to carry out the activities of this...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has instructed Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Hon. Dorothy Lightbourne, to seek a declaration from the courts on her obligations before signing extradition orders. He was speaking on his call-in radio programme, Jamaica House Live, on Wednesday night, March 31. "I have instructed the Minister of Justice to seek a declaration from the courts of Jamaica,...

The Registrar General's Department (RGD) has achieved a high success rate in its key performance indicators (KPI) for 2009/2010, according to Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Patricia Holness, speaking at a JIS Think Tank on Wednesday (March 31). "The RGD has achieved 90 per cent success on all its key performance indicators," Dr. Holness told the Think Tank. She explained that...

St. Mary's 4-H Clubs participated in the annual Achievement Day activities at the Oracabessa High School, Tuesday (March 30). The event, held under the theme "Youth involvement in local food production for sustainability," featured displays by a number of government and non-government agencies, a lunch hour concert and a prizegiving ceremony. Among the competitive events during the day's activities were...

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Registrar General's Department (RGD), Dr. Patricia Holness, is encouraging Jamaicans whose documents need correction to come in and have them corrected. She said that some previous holders of passports are coming into the RGD to get their birth certificates, only to discover that there are no records in the names they originally used on...

Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, says that the current drought is a major concern to the Government. "Cabinet continues to monitor the matter and all available options are being explored at this time," Mr. Vaz assured the public, as he addressed the issue at Wednesday's (March 31) Post Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica...

An initiative between the Organisation of American States (OAS) and Jamaica's Registrar General's Department (RGD), which should improve the vital records capability of six Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) states, has been confirmed by OAS Representative in Jamaica, Dr. Joan Neil. "The project has to do with the fundamental reform of the civil registry systems of six OECS selected...

A public education programme aimed at increasing land titling and registration is to get underway next month. A sum of $6.3 million has been set aside in the 2010/11 Estimates of Expenditure now before the House of Representatives, for the six-month project, which ends September. It is being funded by the Inter-American Development Bank, with the National Land Agency as...

The sum of $31 million has been earmarked for the Piloting Natural Resource Valuation within Environmental Impact Assessment project in the 2010/11 Estimates of Expenditure, currently before the House of Representatives. This project, which is being implemented by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) aims to develop a set of natural resource valuation tools, which will form an integral...

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) has been allocated an additional $35.6 million in the 2010/11 Estimates of Expenditure, currently before Parliament, to continue its Natural Hazard Management activities in urban coastal areas. The three-year project, which commenced in April 2008, aims to strengthen disaster risk management in towns and cities on the island's coasts. The move,...