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The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), has instituted new rules, to prevent easy access to its landfills by children and trucks with crews searching for scrap metal. The rules are being put in place to promote safety standards in relation to health and waste. "Effective immediately, children seen on the landfills will be forcibly removed by officers who will...

Acting Botanist with the Natural History Museum of Jamaica, Keron Campbell, has called on Jamaicans to treat the environment with respect, and to preserve and protect it, as that is the source of sustenance. "The environment is what makes Jamaica beautiful, it is what most of our tourism is based on. The environment is where everything comes from, wood, food,...

The Boadcasting Commission will be keeping an eye on this year's Carnival activities, in continuation of its efforts to regulate violent and lewd forms of entertainment. Chairman of the Commission, Dr. Hopeton Dunn, made the announcement during a press conference at the Knutsford Court Hotel on Tuesday. "We will looking very closely at any form of output, including carnival and...

The Broadcasting Commission is seeking to have the Broadcasting and Re-diffusion Act repealed in order to facilitate a more effective regulatory system for the airwaves. This was revealed by the Chairman of the Commission, Dr. Hopeton Dunn, as he addressed a press conference at the Knutsford Court Hotel, New Kingston, on Tuesday (Feb. 9). "We have sought an early amendment...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding, has announced the appointment of Mr. Zia Mian as Director-General of the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR). Mr. Mian's appointment takes effect from February 9, 2009. He succeeds Mr. J. Paul Morgan who resigned last year. Mr. Mian is an economist and financial analyst, with extensive experience in energy economics having worked with private, public, international...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding, is of the view that cricket is the only part of our colonial heritage that has never been questioned or challenged even in the most vigorous period of anti-colonial fervour and even by the most anti-colonialists. "It is more than just a game. It is something that first brought us international recognition long before reggae, Garvey,...

The Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) has presented Government with the results of its research on a new social partnership for Jamaica. The report was presented yesterday to Prime Minister Bruce Golding, by the President of CAPRI, John Rapley, when he met with Mr. Golding at Jamaica House. Explaining the background to the research, Mr. Rapley said that Social Partnership...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding, has instructed the Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, Olivia 'Babsy' Grange, to set up a meeting this week to discuss the concerns and impact of the negative lyrics and images being portrayed through Jamaica's music, in particular, dance hall music. Mr. Golding was responding to an impassioned plea from dub poet, Mutabaruka, who in...

Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports Olivia Grange has said that unity among stakeholders has been one of the keys to the success and viability of the Jamaica's music industry. Minister Grange was speaking at the Reggae Month reception (Sunday February 8) hosted at Jamaica House for members of the music industry and related stakeholders. "I must tell you...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has underscored the leadership role that Ryan Peralto (Snr) played in modernizing the country's electoral system so that fraud would become more difficult and the promise of a fair result ensured. The Prime Minister was delivering a tribute to his friend and colleague at the official funeral for Ryan Peralto (Snr) this afternoon, (Monday, February 9)...

The Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) is in the final stages of drafting a report on the issue of campaign funding for political parties, Chairman, Professor Errol Miller, has disclosed. Speaking at a briefing at the ECJ's New Kingston offices on Wednesday (Feb. 4), Professor Miller said work on a draft report had been undertaken, following a series of town...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding, has established a task force to monitor developments in the bauxite industry. He has also given his complete assurance that the Government would exert all efforts to protect the bauxite industry and the jobs of the workers. Mr. Golding gave the assurance when he met with union heads and delegates of the bauxite industry at Jamaica...