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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...

The Icy Allen Care Centre, a new addition to the Trelawny Infirmary, was officially opened on February 26. Constructed at a cost of approximately $40 million, through philanthropic contributions from friends of the Infirmary based in the United States, the Care Center has accommodation for approximately 35 residents. It is fully equipped with modern facilities and conveniences suitable also for...

Reggae Month 2009 came to a pulsating climax with impressive performances by Freddie McGregor, Tanya Stephens, Lloyd Lovindeer, TOK and Professor Nuts, at the inaugural Jamaica Reggae Industry Association (JARIA) Honour Awards on Sunday (March 1). In an atmosphere of glitz and glamour, 11 stalwarts of Jamaica's music industry were honoured and celebrated, for their invaluable contribution to its development...

The Tax Administration Department is reminding all companies, organisations, self-employed persons, and employees with other sources of income, that March 15 is the due date to file income tax returns. Business persons are being urged to use days preceeding that date to prepare their Final Income Tax Return for 2008 and a Declaration of Estimated Income and Tax Payable for...

Jamaica is expected to host the next meeting of the executive committee of the Parliamentary Confederation of the Americas(COPA), which unites democratic Parliaments in the Americas. This has been confirmed by Jamaica's representative on COPA's executive committee, Mr. Othneil Lawrence, the Member of Parliament for North West St. Ann, who returned home recently from the meeting of the committee in...

Several communities in Portland are poised to benefit from training and social development programmes, aimed at improving their socio-economic conditions. One such area, Janga Gully in Port Antonio, will see the HEART Trust/NTA providing certification for persons who are already equipped with a number of skills, but who are not certified. The Trust will also be offering training to other...