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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,...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, has said that the Government will be providing more support for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), in light of the importance of these businesses to the Jamaican economy. "I think we need to provide the enabling environment and the institutional support. I think (SMEs) hold the key for much of the hopes that Jamaica...

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) in a release today informed the public that close to 300 tonnes of Sulphuric Acid were released into the sea in the vicinity of Berth One, Port Bustamante, Kingston Harbour, Friday night (September 11). ODPEM said that the source of the spill was a container located at Berth One. A Team...

His Worship the Mayor of Savanna-la-Mar, Councillor Bertel Moore, has said that the parish is in urgent need of two ambulances to replace out-of-service vehicles at the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital and the Negril Fire Station. The Mayor, who was addressing a meeting of the Westmoreland Parish Council yesterday (Sept. 10) at the Anglican Church Hall in the parish capital, stated that...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding has expressed the view that if Jamaica is to have a brighter future in agriculture then it must be linked to manufacturing and driven by technology. Speaking at his sixth Town Hall Meeting, in Annotto Bay, St. Mary on September 09, he said "We have to integrate agriculture with manufacturing; and agro-processing is something...

The Department of Local Government and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), today (September 10), signed off on a pilot project intended to make communities safer for women and girls. Dubbed, 'Strengthening Community Safety Through Local Government Capacity Building', the project is to be implemented in two communities over the next 15 months, at a cost of US$240,000 (J$21 million)....

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding is urging all Jamaicans to give support to Caribbean Wellness Day 2009, which was officially launched yesterday (September 9), at Jamaica House. The Day will be observed on Sunday, September 13 with a Health Festival in Half-Way Tree Square. Speaking at the launch, the Prime Minister said: "If you cannot get to the festival,...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding warned last night that his Government wants better results from the $70 billion it is spending on education this financial year. "We spend a lot of money on education, but we do not feel we are getting the value we expect. Everybody is going to have to pull up their socks," the Prime Minister...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding has explained that if the Government is to pay the reclassification monies to some of the public sector groups, the wage bill will become unmanageable. The Prime Minister was speaking at the launch of the 2009 Compensation and Benefits Report of Micro, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs), yesterday (September 8), in Kingston. Mr....

Internal auditors employed in the public sector kicked off their three-day conference at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston Tuesday (September 8). The inaugural Government of Jamaica's Internal Auditors' Conference is being held under the theme, 'Internal Auditing: A Global Perspective'. Director of the Internal Audit Directorate (IAD) in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Hope Blake,...