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Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding emphasised on Saturday (May 30), that the nation's young people are the hope for the country, and worthwhile opportunities had to be created for them, so that they can be driven in a positive direction. "They are the energy that drives this country. We are the ones who will provide them with the guidance...

Jamaica has made significant progress in eight of the 14 United Nations' Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets for 2015, according to the national MDG report, jointly undertaken by the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. The report, which was officially launched at the PIOJ on Thursday (May 28), highlights significant progress by...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding has emphasised the need for young people to establish new standards of right and wrong for their own age, and for their elders to give them the opportunity to do so. He was speaking on Thursday (May 28) at the American International School of Kingston, when he told the Graduating Class of 2009, "Society...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding has called on the country to give young people a chance to assume responsibility as this will help them to grow into competent adults. "These young people are the ones who have more than a generation ahead of them, they are the ones who will have to provide leadership and I want us to...

Director General of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), Ronald Jackson, is appealing to young people to join the Preparedness and Emergency Response Corps (PERC). "We are looking for members from all the various clubs, the 4-H, the Key Club, the Student Council Union and the Environmental Club, among others, to come on board. It is an...

The Government of Jamaica's Emergency Response Initiative (ERI), aimed at enhancing the country's preparation and response capacity in disaster management, was officially launched yesterday (May 29) at the St. Mary High School. The programme, which is being executed at a cost of $90 million, through the Emergency Recovery Project, involves collaboration between the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding, today (May 28), presented a motorised wheelchair to Sergeant Cecil Smythe, during a ceremony at the City Centre Police Station, in downtown Kingston. The wheelchair will assist the committed policeman, who was made physically challenged some 22 years ago after being accidentally shot by a colleague while on duty, to move around more comfortably while carrying...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has assured redundant sugar workers that within a month they will be receiving payments due to them. Last night (May 27) he told listeners on his call-in radio programme Jamaica House Live, "We gave an undertaking that redundancy payments will be made in June. Both the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture confirmed to...

The Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) has embarked on an islandwide drive to help small business operators position themselves to secure contracts. As part of the Government's stimulus package, Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding announced in December that the Government would facilitate small business access to at least 15 per cent of Government contracts. The JBDC has taken a...

Prime Minister the Bruce Golding told residents of Portmore, Tuesday night (May 26), that the Government is seeking to address decades-old sewage disposal problems in the community with Japanese Government support. "We have made a submission to the Japanese Government, there is a special loan facility that they have provided, and we have included it in the list of projects...

President of the Jamaica Institute of Environmental Professionals (JIEP), Marcia Creary, has said that the global economic crisis has brought the implications of climate change into sharp focus, and the need to address the issue promptly. Speaking at the opening ceremony for the JIEP's Fourth Conference on the Environment on May 26 at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston, Miss...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding, in remarking on the stress on Jamaica's justice system, noted that for last year alone, there were some 345,000 cases listed for the Resident Magistrates Courts. This does not include the numbers listed in the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeal. Of the total, some 90 percent involve criminal offences. Mr. Golding was...