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In a bid to herald and energise a new approach to agriculture, Prime Minister Bruce Golding, says a new investment driven approach must be taken to the industry and that it must be looked at as a business to create wealth, not as something to help out rural poor people. In the creation of this new thinking, Mr. Golding says...

The African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank (ACIJ/JMB), on Wednesday (March 4), launched its much anticipated CD-ROM, 'Afro-Jamaican Religions: Kumina, Revival and Rastafari', at the Institute of Jamaica, in Downtown Kingston. Addressing an audience of some 200 high school students and teachers, Professor Emerita at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Maureen Warner-Lewis, said the CD-ROM represented an...

The Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS), has revamped its annual high school photography programme. On Tuesday (March 3) it launched a 'Resolution Project,' which, in addition to exposing the creativity of students, aims to encourage them to focus on issues that can bring about positive change to their communities. Speaking at the launch held at the Bloomfield Great House in...

Thirty-year old Kim Marie Spence, has been selected to represent Jamaica in the team of eight women from countries across the Commonwealth, who will participate in the Women's Antarctic Expedition. Representing five continents, six faiths and seven languages, the team of diverse women, some of whom have never seen snow before, will come together to tackle the immense mental and...

Jamaican sled dog musher, Newton Marshall, has been awarded the 'Challenge of the North' award for best exemplifying the spirit of the Yukon Quest, during the recent 1,000-mile international race held in the United States. The award, a polished caribou antler trophy, was presented to Marshall at the Yukon Sled Dog Race closing banquet held recently in Fairbanks, Alaska. The...

Hundreds of citizens in possession of land in the parish of Westmoreland, participated in a Road Show put on by the National Land Agency (NLA), at the Savanna-la-Mar High School, in Westmoreland, on March 4. The event was geared towards persons who were experiencing challenges in acquiring legal documents, such as land titles, for their properties. Speaking with JIS News...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has called on the Small Businesses Association (SBA) to encourage small and medium sized entrepreneurs (SMEs) to follow proper book-keeping practices so that they can qualify for loan financing. "We must mount a serious sensitization education programme backed up with government support that will help them, train them, to keep basic accounts. Not sophisticated accounting arrangements,...

The Standing Finance Committee of Parliament will present the 2009-2010 budget to the Houses on April 7. Prime Minister Bruce Golding gave this update as he spoke to listeners to the March 4 edition of Jamaica House Live radio programme last night. The Prime Minister informed listeners about the direction Cabinet was taking by noting that government will be using...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding, has noted that Government is doing what it can to enforce laws, but values must come from the home. "We are facing a crisis, but the greatest crisis has nothing to do with what is happening in the global financial markets. Our greatest crisis is a crisis of values...We can pass laws to punish, but morality...

The Government has spent some $60 million on emergency road repairs in six parishes, which were affected by flood rains, between February 2 and 12. Speaking at Wednesday's (March 4) post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House, Minister of Transport and Works, Michael Henry, said that preliminary estimates indicate that some $830,000,000 would be needed to conduct road repairs and river...

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Pearnel Charles, and President of the Small Business Association of Jamaica, Edward Chin Mook , will be the special guests of Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, tonight (March 4), on his monthly radio programme 'Jamaica House Live.' They will discuss the global economic crisis and its impact on jobs, and the role of the small...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding says Jamaica wants to expand economic relations with France in the areas of tourism and investments in the productive sector. He expressed this desire when he received a courtesy call this morning from the French Ambassador to Jamaica and the Bahamas, Ambassador Marc-Olivier Gendry at Jamaica House. Mr. Golding used the opportunity to update the French...