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The Hanover Division of the Jamaica Fire Brigade, is training and certifying citizens as Fire Wardens, who will help in fighting fires in their communities. The move comes against an increase in fires in the parish since the beginning of the year, and a shortage of resources and manpower to effectively contain outbreaks, especially in the hilly communities. Under the...

Newly re-elected Member of Parliament for West Portland, Daryl Vaz, was sworn in today (April 1), to serve a second stint as Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister, by Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Dr. Patrick Allen, during a brief ceremony at King's House. Prime Minister Bruce Golding, and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of...

Eighty nine persons from inner-city communities across Kingston and St Andrew today (March 30) graduated from a parenting programme organised by the Kingston Restoration Company (KRC) and the Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP). At the ceremony, held at the Terra Nova All Suite Hotel, in St Andrew, the participants received certificates for completing training in first aid, nutrition, dispute...

Miss Manchester High, Gabrielle Wildes, has lauded competitive events, which she says help to mould young people into becoming better leaders. Gabrielle, who was crowned yesterday (March 28) at the institution's 2009 beauty pageant, told JIS News that she was delighted and grateful to her friends and family for their support. "Competitions like this one helps us to be patient,...

Minister of Mining and Telecommunications Derrick Smith, says he will be pushing for the expansion of the e-Learning Project to include primary schools. Currently the project is being implemented across the island at the secondary level and at teachers colleges and special schools, but Minister Smith says he thinks it would be better served if the project is extended to...

Commissioner of Customs Danville Walker, has said that the Department will be going after persons, who engage in the under-invoicing of goods, robbing the country of revenue to provide essential services and fund development projects. Mr. Walker, who was addressing a meeting of the Rotary Club of Mandeville, held recently at the Golf View Hotel in Manchester, said that such...

Chief Executive Officer of the Registrar General's Department (RGD) Dr. Patricia Holness, has lauded the agency for the important service it continues to provide to Jamaicans at home and abroad. She pointed to the interest expressed in the RGD by Jamaicans in the Diaspora. "Our virtual office continues to grow as our website receives over 40,000 hits per week from...

The St. Thomas Infirmary is now self-sufficient in chicken meat, as the protein source is produced on the premises in Morant Bay. Financing of the project, valued at some US$10,400, was provided by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations and the St. Thomas Parish Council. It was established through the collaborative effort of the Department of...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Dr. Kenneth Baugh, has offered condolences to Canada, on the recent deaths of four soldiers in Afghanistan. Speaking with Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lawrence Cannon, on March 24, in Ottawa, Canada, Dr. Baugh expressed regrets on behalf of the Government and people of Jamaica for Canada's loss. "We...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding, has expressed Government's appreciation for the J$2-billion (18.625 million Euros) grant from the European Union, which was handed over today, to be paid directly into the treasury through the EU's ongoing Budget Support Programme. Speaking at the official handing over ceremony at Jamaica House on Thursday March 26, Mr. Golding said the grant was a significant...

Scores of family members and friends, crowded the Hither Green Methodist Church, in London, United Kingdom (UK), on Thursday March 26, for a thanksgiving service for the life of 105 year-old Wilhelmina Morgan, who died on March 1 this year. Mrs. Morgan was originally from Moravia, in Clarendon. She moved to the UK in 1966 to join her only daughter,...

Minister of Education, Andrew Holness and Chief Medical Officer (CMO), in the Ministry of Health and the Environment, Dr. Sheila Campbell Forrester, will be special guests on the monthly call in radio programme, 'Jamaica House Live', hosted by Prime Minister Bruce Golding, which will be aired tonight (March 25), from 8:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Mr. Holness will speak on...