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The Government Tuesday (December 8) handed over cheques amounting to some $5.7 million to registered vendors who lost stalls and goods in the recent Oxford Mall fire, downtown Kingston. Of the 68 vendors affected, 57 received cheques valued at $100,000 each, during a brief ceremony held at the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation's (KSAC) Markets Department, at the Bus Terminus,...

Minister with responsibility for information, Daryl Vaz has emphasized government's responsibility to intervene in the situation created by the Gully Gaza controversy which has resulted in tension between the fans of dancehall artistes Movado and Vybz Kartel. Minister Vaz along with Minister of Education, Andrew Holness, Security Minister Dwight Nelson, representatives of the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Sports, head...

Disaster mitigation stakeholders from some 30 countries in the Caribbean, Latin America and the South Pacific, are in the island for the 4th Caribbean Conference on Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM). The five-day conference, which got underway yesterday (December 7) at the Rose Hall Resort and Spa in Montego Bay St. James, is being held under the theme: 'Strengthening CDM through...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding told young people that they must put aside bad examples of elders and take responsibility for their own actions. He was speaking at the Prime Minister's Youth Awards for Excellence on Sunday (December 6) at the Emancipation Park in Kingston where 27 outstanding youth were recognised and 16 received awards. "Young people must start...

Seventeen young people and one organisation were yesterday (December 6) honoured for outstanding achievement in various fields, at the 11th staging of the Prime Minister's Youth Awards for Excellence. Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, made the presentations at a ceremony held at Emancipation Park in Kingston. The youth awardees, who were selected from a total of 27 nominees are:...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding has called on the Church to lead in making HIV/ AIDS awareness and prevention for children more straightforward. He was speaking at the World AIDS Day Annual Outstanding Leadership Breakfast this morning (December 1) in Kingston where, Mrs Lorna Golding was named patron of the Jamaica AIDS Committee for one year. "Part of the...

Senior Director in the Procurement Policy Implementation Unit (PPIU) in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Mrs. Shirley Sinclair, has said that the Government will introduce E-Procurement in 2010, as part of its modernisation programme. "In 2010, our next major initiative will be E-procurement. We have a strategy which is basically our road map that sets out how...

It will definitely be a family affair for the Prime Minister's Youth Awards on Sunday (December 6) at Emancipation Park in Kingston, as the show will feature, mother and daughter, brothers, and entire families performing. Among those confirmed to perform are reggae singer Alaine and her mother Myrna; gospel DJ Goddy Goddy and his brother Ryan Mark; as well as...

A non-governmental organisation (NGO) that has been making a contribution to the empowerment of Jamaica's youth will be honoured with a brand new award at the Prime Minister's Youth Awards for Excellence this weekend. The new award, 'The Prime Minister's Organisation Youth Service Award,' will be presented at the annual awards ceremony to be held on Sunday, December 6, at...

Successive Jamaican Governments have recognised the critical need for pubic sector reform and have initiated programmes with that objective, beginning with the Administrative Reform Programme in 1984. The most successful of these efforts has been the Public Sector Modernisation Programme (PSMP), which began in 1996 as a World Bank-funded programme, initially lasting six years. The programme was funded at a...

The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) is taking action to strengthen the capacity of its public sector partners and stakeholders to implement, monitor and evaluate frameworks at the national level, with a view to generating results, by organising two workshops on results-based management (RBM). Some 23 public sector officers from 14 Ministries, agencies and departments, are currently participating in the...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding has instructed that $100,000 be given to each "Youth Mayor" for a project that is "substantial and long lasting." Speaking at the Prime Minister's Youth Mayors' Luncheon Wednesday (December 2) at Jamaica House in Kingston, Mr. Golding said that the "young Mayors" should be leaders of today and not tomorrow, as is often said....