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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,...

The Jamaican community and friends of the Diaspora in South Florida will pay their last respects to late Vice Chancellor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor the Hon. Ralston "Rex" Nettleford, OM, at a thanksgiving service slated for next Tuesday (February 23). The function, which will be held at the Holy Family Episcopal Church in Miami...

Members of the CARICOM Caucus of Ambassadors, academia and the Jamaican community residing in Washington D.C. and the metro areas began paying tribute to the late Vice Chancellor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor Rex Nettleford O.M. on Friday (February 12), when a condolence book was officially opened at the Jamaican Embassy in Washington, DC. Jamaican...

The Tea Garden located on the grounds of the historic King's House in the capital city has been refurbished, with new features put in to enhance its appeal to Their Excellencies and visitors to the property. Honorary Consul of Ukraine, Kenny Benjamin, who is also Guardsman Group chairman, carried out the project with support from the Consular Corps. The garden,...

On Tuesday (February 16), the Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ) will be hosting the last in a series of amnesty sessions, geared at sensitising charitable groups to how they can benefit from the amnesty currently being offered. Part of the 'COJ Meet the People Series', the session will be held at the Hibiscus Lodge in Ocho Rios, St. Ann, commencing...

Using chalks of various colours, shapes and sizes, foster care families and staff members of the Child Development Agency (CDA) and Juici Patties transformed sidewalks and parking lots at selected locations with murals displaying colourful messages observing National Foster Care Recognition Week, February 6 -12. The Juici Patties-sponsored event, dubbed "Chalk Talk", drew the attention of curious onlookers, who stopped...

The general motoring public is advised that there will be traffic changes at the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies in Kingston on Tuesday, morning February 16 for the funeral service for Professor the Hon. Rex Nettleford. Motorists must enter through the University Hospital and follow the directions of security officers. Motorists who will be attending the...

The Haitian disaster has put the region in an earthquake awareness mode and renewed interest in a National Building Code for Jamaica, says President of the Jamaican Institute of Architects, Christopher Whyms-Stone. Speaking with JIS News, Mr. Whyms-Stone said that while the Institute mourned the tremendous loss of life and destruction of property in Haiti caused by the earthquake on...

A Condolence Book has been opened at the Jamaican Consulate General in Toronto for the late Vice Chancellor Emeritus at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Professor Rex Nettleford, who died on February 2. Jamaica's Consul General to Toronto, Mr. George Ramocan, is inviting all Jamaicans living in Toronto and surrounding areas to visit the Consulate and pay their...

There are plans to declare the town of Falmouth, in Trelawny, an Urban Development Corporation (UDC) designated area, which should lead to a co-ordinated development of that town in the future. Consultations have started between the UDC and the Trelawny Parish Council, with a view to having that local authority coming to some agreement with the UDC about the development...

Despite record-breaking snowstorm, which hit the mid-Atlantic region on the weekend, Jamaicans in Washington DC, Baltimore and Virginia, as well as members of the art community in these areas, turned out in numbers on Monday (Feb. 8) to bid farewell to one of Jamaica's foremost artists, Albert Huie, OD, CD. Jamaica's Ambassador to the United States (US), Anthony Johnson, who...