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The Universal Access Fund (UAF) has collected $5.5 billion to date and of this amount, approximately $2.8 billion has been committed to the e-Learning project. This was disclosed by Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), with responsibility for Information and Telecommunications, Hon. Daryl Vaz on Wednesday (July 22), during his contribution to the 2009/10 Sectoral...

The Government is offering two wireless cable licences to service providers to afford consumers wider choices. This was announced by Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, with responsibility for Information and Telecommunications, Hon. Daryl Vaz, during his presentation in the 2009/10 Sectoral Debate, at Gordon House, yesterday (July 22). "As the communication and information technologies evolve...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Kingston, Ronald Thwaites, has called for the Government and Opposition to form a "Government of national unity." He made the call during his contribution to the 2009/2010 Sectoral Debate in the House, on July 22. Mr. Thwaites said it required a sustained and institutional partnership to meet today's challenges, rather than collaboration only when...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has set up a team to make recommendations to help the government improve the administration of children's homes throughout Jamaica. The team is to report its findings to him by the end of August. At a meeting with heads of both private and state run agencies, earlier this week at Jamaica House, the Prime Minister said,...

The Manchester leg of the Young Entrepreneurs Programme's (YEP) orientation sessions have been rescheduled for Friday (July 24). They will be held at the HEART Vocational Training Development Institute (VTDI) campus, Grove Road, Mandeville and Holmwood Technical High School, Christiana. Both sessions will run from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The sessions were originally slated for July 8, but had...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, has placed on record the position that the Government does not intend to cut public sector jobs, despite its decision to return to a borrowing relationship with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Mr. Golding's comments were made in an exclusive interview on All Angles, a current affairs programme, which will be aired tonight (Wednesday,...

Ambassador to the United States, Anthony Johnson, is urging Jamaicans to "rise up and build," noting that the global recession is ripe with opportunities for investment. "Now is the time for people with ideas to get up and do something with those ideas. It is the time for us to see what we can buy as groups, as organisations, as...

Personnel from government ministries and agencies are currently undergoing training, which should lead to more results-based management within these entities. The Results-Based Management, Implementation and Performance Indicators course was launched Monday (July 20), at the Management Institute for National Development (MIND) in Kingston. The course is one of 11 to be delivered under the Priority Training Programme, aimed at facilitating...

The Manchester Chamber of Commerce and the Social Development Commission (SDC) will, on Thursday July 23, kick off a series of seminars, which will examine opportunities outside of the bauxite sector. Under the theme: 'Life After Bauxite', the sessions will look at agriculture/greenhouse technology; tissue culture; community tourism; and the knowledge-based industry. This Thursday's event, which will be held at...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding says the lack of shelter cannot be tackled without looking at the relationship between poverty and the lack of housing. "If you cannot lift people out of poverty and you are providing them with housing they will never be able to honour their obligations in terms of meeting the costs of that housing. The...

Ministers of Housing and Urbanisation and other Government representatives from the region are participating in the 18th General Assembly of Ministers and High Level Authorities on Housing and Urbanisation (MINURVI) in Latin America and the Caribbean which began yesterday (July 16) at the Rose Hall Resort and Country Club, Montego Bay, St. James. Activities are being carried out under the...

Assistant Representative at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Melissa McNeil-Barrett, has said that the media have a role to play in simplifying important issues so that ordinary citizens can understand them. "So often, we talk about the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the man in the street doesn't understand what...