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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....

Residents of Oracabessa, St. Mary benefitted from services in health, education among other areas, provided by a number of key Government and non-government organisations, at a community festival last Friday, November 27. Among the organisations offering their services were the Registrar General's Department (RGD), National Health Fund (NHF), HEART Trust/NTA, St. Mary Health Department, the North Eastern Regional Health Authority,...

Over 30 representatives of several key disaster response agencies and organisations across the island, are currently participating in a two-day workshop being jointly staged by the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), which aims to equip them with the requisite knowledge to prepare for and respond to earthquakes. The workshop,...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding has invited the Opposition to name a representative on Jamaica's team to the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen, Denmark, December 7-18. Mr. Golding, in a statement to the House of Representatives, on Tuesday (December 1) about last week end's Commonwealth Heads of...

The Ministry of Transport and Works last night opened up the Portmore Toll Road to toll-free traffic up to midnight, to reduce congestion in the Spanish Town Road area of Kingston created by a major fire at the Wray and Nephew plant. The fire started at about 6 p.m. and was still in progress four hours later. Prime Minister the...

Twenty seven nominations have been received for the Prime Minister's Youth Awards for Excellence, to be presented on Sunday, December 6, at Emancipation Park, in Kingston, beginning at 5:00 p.m. They are: Kerri Ann Allen, Zurie Johnson, Olivia Rose, Doneika Simms and Rochelle Whyne in the category of Academics; Danielle Hyde in the field of Entrepreneurship; Siaelda Green and Trudi...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, has said that poverty is an enemy of the environment and funding must continue to be given towards its alleviation. He was addressing Commonwealth Heads of Government in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad on November 27. In his contribution to the special session on climate change, Mr Golding said he was encouraged by statements from United Nations...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, has expressed disappointment that there seems to be no clear direction on the restructuring of the International Financial Institutions (IFIs). Further, he is concerned that once the economic crisis recedes, the interests of middle income developing countries, like Jamaica, might be forgotten. Mr. Golding, who is in Trinidad participating in the Commonwealth Heads of...