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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...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding, has stressed the importance of the Organisation of American States (OAS), to support the call for stronger regulations of financial institutions that have an international reach. "There is a need to rebuild global confidence. There must be synchronisation of regulatory systems. It will be a tragedy if developing countries become more excluded from global decisions", Mr....

Prime Minister Golding has endorsed the establishment of the new Sandals Foundation, which aims at improving the lives of residents of troubled communities through educational and environmental outreach. The Prime Minister described the foundation as "a tremendous initiative" and congratulated Sandals' chairman, Mr. Gordon 'Butch' Stewart, and his son, Adam Stewart, for spearheading the programme. He also urged other companies...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Senator Dwight Nelson, has emphasised that there is a need for more transformational leadership within the public sector. The Minister also noted that the leaders should be strategic thinkers and strong decision makers. Senator Nelson was speaking on March 17, at the opening of a two-day conference, aimed...