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The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) is advising the public that the 'Drop, Cover, and Hold' is the appropriate action to reduce injury and death during earthquakes. This methodology is also the accepted safety manoeuvre promoted by United States federal, state and local emergency management experts, the Red Cross, and other official preparedness organisations. The ODPEM does...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding returned home Monday (January 18) from the meeting in the Dominican Republic which discussed assistance and co-ordination of relief efforts for earthquake devastated Haiti. The meeting was convened at the request of the King of Spain, Juan Carlos I, in his capacity as Chairman of the European Union (EU), to discuss medium and long-term...

Ministry of Labour & Social Security Gov't Assists QuadrupletsKINGSTON (JIS):Monday, January 18, 2010 PRINT THIS SEND TO A FRIEND Minister of Labour and Social Security Hon. Pearnel Charles (left), tries to get the attention of Ruth Anne, as he holds her sister Isabelle during a courtesy call at his offices on North Street in Kingston on January 15. The girls...

The Logos Hope book ship, which arrives in Jamaica on January 20, will bring with it three times as many titles as its predecessor the Logos 11. More than 7,500 titles, covering a range of subjects, will be available for Jamaicans to browse through and make purchases. These include Christian literature, hobbies, science, sports, dictionaries, atlases, children's books and texts...

Concrete houses are reduced to rubble in the aftermath of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti. Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding, on Thursday (Jan.14) led a team to the island, which included Opposition Leader the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, to view the devastation firsthand. Haitians walk among the rubble from collapsed buildings in capital Port-au-Prince. Prime Minister, Hon....

Reginald and Keisha Hird, regarded as the first Jamaican parents of quadruplets, and their children, paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding at Jamaica House in Kingston on Friday (January 15). The visit was less than two weeks before the second birthday of the four girls - Ruth-Anne, Isabelle, Gabrielle and Annabelle - who were delivered...

Jamaica has been designated the centre through which the Caribbean Community's (CARICOM) relief intervention for earthquake-hit Haiti will be channelled. Addressing journalists at a media briefing at Jamaica House in Kingston on Friday (January 15), Minister with responsibility for Information, Hon. Daryl Vaz, disclosed that this decision was reached during a meeting of CARICOM representatives hosted by Prime Minister the...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. Dr. Kenneth Baugh, gets a quick briefing from United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, as they walk to the VIP Lounge at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, Saturday night (January 16). Mrs. Clinton stopped at the airport on her way from earthquake torn Port-au-Prince, Haiti,...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding told members of the national netball team, the Sunshine Girls, on Friday (January 15), that their greater cause for celebration is not their new home, The Sunshine Chalet, but their success as a team. "It is the efforts that you have made, the courage that you have shown, and the joy that you have...

The Air Jamaica aircraft which took home a number of Jamaicans who had been stranded in Haiti since Tuesday's (Jan 12) earthquake, on the tarmac at the Norman Manley International Airport, Kingston, after returning Saturday morning. A Jamaican mother hugs her young baby as she walks across the tarmac at the Norman Manley International Airport, Kingston, after being brought home...

More than 30 individuals stranded in Haiti, following Tuesday's earthquake in the French-speaking country, arrived home on Friday (January 15), as the Government commenced airlifting home Jamaicans from Port-au-Prince. Minister with responsibility for Information, Hon. Daryl Vaz, confirmed that those returning home on one of two Air Jamaica rescue flights included 23 Digicel employees, four employees of the Jamaica Civil...

An emergency centre has been established at the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), 2-4 Haining Road, New Kingston, to coordinate relief assistance generated locally for Haiti. Speaking at a media briefing at Jamaica House on Friday (January15), Minister with responsibility for Information, Hon. Daryl Vaz, said that ODPEM would be responsible for streamlining all forms of assistance...