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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...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding, on July 2, heaped praises on former Prime Minister, the Most Hon. P. J. Patterson, after he was conferred with the Order of the Caribbean Community (OCC). This took place at the opening ceremony of the 30th regular meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of Caricom in Georgetown, Guyana. In congratulating Mr....

The development plan for the city of Montego Bay in St. James, has been completed, while plans for the upgrading of the other resort areas of the island are in progress. More than $200 million has been spent from the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) on the resort development plan, which aims to upgrade and improve the major resort towns, which,...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding today chaired the Caricom Prime Ministerial sub-committee on external negotiations which received recommendations on a number of trade issues affecting the region. The meeting, which was held a day ahead of the official opening of the 30th Caricom summit in Georgetown Guyana, allowed heads to discuss preparations for the commencement of Caricom-Canada negotiations for...

The benefits of the Young Entrepreneurs Programme (YEP) were explained to young people in St. Mary at an orientation seminar, held at the HEART/NTA Vocational Training Institute, Port Maria, on Friday June 26. The function was attended by a number of young people representing various organisations in the parish. Entrepreneurial Trainer for the YEP programme, Kaymian Weekley, asserted that it...

Disaster Preparedness Co-ordinator with the Clarendon Parish Council, Charmaine Williams, has urged residents of Milk River, a low lying community close to the south coast, to ensure that all possible measures are taken to protect life and property during this hurricane season. Addressing the residents on June 29, Mrs. Williams informed that paramount to mitigating against the losses inherent in...

Former Prime Minister, the Most Hon. P. J. Patterson, has commended Attorney-at-law, Delano Franklyn, for successfully completing a book entitled, 'Michael Manley - The Politics of Equality', comprising an assortment of speeches by the late former Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Most Hon. Michael Manley. Speaking at the official launch of the book, at the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce...