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"Not my Armadale," were the first thoughts of Cassandra, a former ward of the facility, when she heard the news of the protests and subsequent fiery deaths of seven teenagers at the centre in May. For her, the Armadale Juvenile Centre, located in St Ann, is not just the place she spent two years of her life, Armadale is hers....

State Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for Local Government Reform, Hon. Robert Montague, has approved funding for several infrastructural improvement projects in a number of divisions in St. Thomas. A sum of $3 million is to be spent on drain cleaning across the parish, inclusive of drain construction, while another $3 million is to go...

For small business owners, who access Government loans through the Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC), the money they receive is only a small part of the benefits of the scheme. Managing Director of Irie Fi Real, Josette Richardson, can attest to getting more than just funding from the Corporation. She tells JIS News that the process of accessing her $100,000...

The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) has now joined the Government's growing communications links with the public through the launch of its website at www.opm.gov.jm Coming one year after the launching of the Prime Minister's radio programme, "Jamaica House Live", the new website delivers frequent updates on the activities and statements of the PM, as well as State projects...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding has expressed Jamaica's concern with reports presented at this morning's session of the 30th regular meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of Caricom in Georgetown, Guyana, on the negative impact of the global crisis on the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Trust Fund. Jamaica contributes up to 23 percent of the cost...

Project Manager of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), Cavell Francis-Rhiney, has urged South West Clarendon residents to form community groups to develop project documents to benefit from the Fund. Mrs. Francis-Rhiney was addressing a community consultation meeting, convened to identify some of the developmental issues facing the constituency, and to determine how best they can be addressed through the CDF....

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding has declared it improper for any Caricom member state to take a unilateral position in relation to the free movement of Caricom nationals within the region. He says member states should not talk about their sovereignty and their right to do what they consider to be in their national interest, as they are all...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding told journalists today (July 3) that "interesting ideas have been discussed" at an informal caucus of Caribbean heads about the role of Caricom in governance; and he hoped that a way forward would emerge. "I am hoping a platform would be built, upon which we would finally address this enormous difficulty of governance. I...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding has emphasized that within a single market, trade has to be rule based and cannot be dependent on an exporter getting hold of a Minister to call his counterpart in another country to sort out the situation. "We must be able to send goods from Jamaica to Trinidad, or Barbados to Antigua or to...

Prime Minster the Hon. Bruce Golding has reminded citizens that the country was only able to source funds to pay its debt because it was a good creditor. Responding to a plea for road repairs from a resident of Gutters St. James, Mr. Golding told the recent Town Hall Meeting in Montego Bay: "We have never ever in our history...

Seventy-five Jamaicans received support, totalling $7.5 million, from the Ministry of Water and Housing under its Tropical Storm Gustav Recovery Programme, at the Ministry's New Kingston office on Thursday (July 2). "This is part of the ongoing attempt to have a number of you, who received a battering during the storm, resettled in more comfortable circumstances," Minster of Water and...

Prime Minster the Hon. Bruce Golding has repeated his warning that people should not capture land, breach planning guidelines and believe that Government will support them. His remarks were made at the Town Hall Meeting held recently in Montego Bay, when he was responding to a plea from craft vendors in Lilliput, St. James, who had asked for help to...