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The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) has launched a poster competition, aimed at promoting safe building practices to reduce the impact of hazards and natural disasters. In collaboration with the United Kingdom-based Department for International Development (DFID), the competition, titled 'Safer Building', is open to any individual or group within Jamaica. Project Co-ordinator for the Tropical Storm...

Residents of Trinityville in rural St. Thomas are now better equipped to prepare for, and manage all types of disasters. A community disaster mitigation plan, prepared under the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)-funded Building Disaster Resilient Communities (BDRC) project, was launched in the area last week. The plan was the culmination of five months of community training and planning, facilitated...

Executive Director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), Jeremy Collymore, says he welcomes the new name, as well as the focus of the agency on disaster management in the region. "We are a new organisation reflecting a commitment and recognition, by the Governments of the Caribbean, that we can no longer sit idly by while our economies suffer...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding will be hosting his seventh Town Hall Meeting at the St. Gabriel's Church, in May Pen, Clarendon, this Wednesday, September 23, at 7:00 p.m. The Prime Minister will be supported by Minister of Transport & Works, Hon. Michael Henry; Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Pearnel Charles; Minister of Energy and Mining, Hon....

In Parliament on Tuesday, September 15, Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding led tributes and condolences made, on the passing of playwright, Mr. Trevor Rhone, C.D., who died that afternoon. "He was one of the most accomplished, most outstanding of our playwrights and writers. Even in recent times he did a one-man show in which he spoke about Bellas Gate....

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding has expressed condolences on behalf of the Government and people of Jamaica on the passing of Deputy President of the Council of the State of Cuba and Member of the National Assembly of the People's Power (Parliament), Juan Almeida Bosque. "We salute the life and worth of a great patriot whose dedication to the...

The Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) has launched its Citizen's Charter, outlining the level of service Jamaicans can expect from its members, as well as its expectations of the public. At the launch of the Charter, Thursday (September 17), at the Department of Local Government, Kingston, Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister with Responsibility for Local Government,...

Industry, Investment and Commerce Minister, the Hon Karl Samuda, says there is need for an infusion of technology into agriculture, as well as improved packaging and marketing of its products, internationally, if it is to contribute, significantly, to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows into Jamaica. Mr. Samuda was addressing the launch of the 2009 United Nations Conference on Trade and...

Prime Minister, Hon. Bruce Golding, has said that legislation is being drafted to give legal authority to the functions of Custodes. He made the announcement at the installation ceremony for the new Custos of St. James, Hon. Ewen George Corrodus, held yesterday (Sept. 16) at the West Jamaica Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists Auditorium in Mount Salem, St. James. "The Government...

Two of the eight communities, which received training in community disaster management under the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)-funded Building Disaster Resilient Communities (BDRC) project, are either updating or creating community disaster plans. This is according to project officer at the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), Joanna Ogilvie, who was speaking at a Jamaica Information Service (JIS)...

Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for Information and Telecommunications, Hon. Daryl Vaz, has clarified that the reduction of the Special Consumption Tax (SCT) on motor vehicle imports will only apply to new and used vehicles already in the island. The Minister had announced the motor vehicle stimulus package for automotive dealers during last...

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has served a Breach Notice on the management of Industrial Chemical Company (ICC) Jamaica Limited, in relation to Saturday's (September 12) Sulphuric Acid spill at the company's storage facility close to the Greenwich Town Fishing Village, Marcus Garvey Drive, Kingston. In a release, NEPA said that, under the terms of the Breach Notice,...