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The Prime Minister, the Hon Bruce Golding, has said that Jamaica needs to accelerate the national switchover to a digital telecommunications system to boost education and investment. Speaking at the official opening of the Spectrum Management Authority's (SMA) office on Harbour Street, downtown Kingston on Thursday (February 18), Mr Golding said that a digital switchover would make more frequencies available...

The Public Sector Transformation Unit (PSTU) is moving to put several measures in place to ensure that staff welfare issues are adequately dealt with during the public sector rationalisation process. Human Resource Specialist on the PSTU team, Ward Mills, told a news briefing today (February 18) at Jamaica House that "we are very aware of the fact that whatever happens...

The process of community development was extensively discussed at the Portland leg of the one-day Vision 2030 Symposium, held at the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE), in Portland, on February 16. Attended by representatives from a number of communities and community organisations in the parish, the session facilitated discussions on how the organisations can best contribute to parish...

Dear ColleaguesSince the beginning of the year, we have analysed the matrices submitted by the Ministries, Departments and Agencies. That is, we have looked at their subjects, budget, services provided, staffing, as well as, their own recommendations of what functions should be retained, merged, transferred, reorganized or privatized. We have also held one-on-one discussions and consultations with each Permanent Secretary,...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding will attend two regional meetings in Mexico from February 21-23. The Prime Minister will address the first Mexico-Caricom Summit on Sunday, February 21 where he will make a presentation on trade and development in the region. The meeting provides an opportunity for dialogue between Caricom member states and Mexico in areas of mutual interest. Mr. Golding...

The family of Mr. Ivan Washington Bernard, a 70-year-old-Jamaican from the parish of Hanover, who was residing in the United States of America is being asked to contact the Diaspora and Consular Affairs Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade at 926-4220. Mr. Ivan Washington Bernard died of natural causes in the Cobb County area of the...

A visionary, giant, cultural icon and intellectual were some of the accolades repeatedly echoed today (February 16) as Jamaicans bade farewell to Professor the Hon. Ralston 'Rex' Milton Nettleford, at a thanksgiving service held at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Chapel in Kingston. For a man who wore many caps as an academic, a dancer, choreographer, cultural ambassador...

Former Prime Ministers of Jamaica, the Most Hon Edward Seaga and the Most Hon P.J. Patterson, paid tributes to the late Vice Chancellor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor the Hon. Rex Nettleford, during Tuesday's (February 16) sitting of the House of Representatives at Gordon House in Kingston. Mr. Seaga remembered Professor Nettleford as an individual...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding says a great deal of Prof. Rex Nettleford's life can never die. His work, Mr. Golding said includes the bridges he built to enable Jamaican's minds to travel beyond self imposed boundaries, the confidence he inspired in Jamaicans, organisations he helped to build and his published works, writings and commentaries. Mr. Golding who was...

In a statement to Parliament on Wednesday February 10th, Prime Minister the Bruce Golding asserted that the competitive tender process that governs the divestment of Air Jamaica, requires the Government to pursue diligently and in good faith, the negotiations with Caribbean Airlines which had submitted an offer by the stipulated deadline of June 30, 2009. This position has been upheld...

On March 1, 2010, the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) will embark on a new approach to its programmes for radio and television. The Agency will no longer produce the 30-minute Jamaica Magazine programme but will instead, produce two five-minute features to be repeated three times daily from Monday to Saturday, to make use of the 30 minutes allocated for Government...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding will officially open the new Downtown Kingston office of the Spectrum Management Authority (SMA), on Thursday, February 18. Mayor of Kingston, Councillor Desmond McKenzie, will welcome guests to the function which starts at 4 p.m. The SMA, the regulator which manages the radio frequency spectrum on behalf of the government, has been in operation since April,...