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The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) has boosted its ability to serve more customers, yesterday (Oct.1) commissioning into service 10 additional megawatts of generating capacity at the Bogue Power Station in Montego Bay. The project, undertaken at a cost of US$8.5 million forms part of JPS' generation expansion programme. With the additional capacity, Bogue is now the largest power generating point...

The lives of students from six schools for the deaf have been made easier by the provision of computers and audio-visual equipment, through funding from the Government's Universal Access Fund Company Limited. The equipment, valued at $6 million, which will make communications much easier at the institutions, was presented on Wednesday (September 30) at the Danny Williams School for the...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, will receive the National Energy Policy before the end of the week. This was announced by Minister of Mining and Energy, Hon. James Robertson, at a Town Hall meeting in Clarendon, on September 23. "The energy policy is ready and will be in front of Cabinet and Parliament. I speak to the Mineral policy...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw, has informed that as at the end of August, a total of $4.8 billion has been collected from the Special Consumption Tax (SCT) on fuel. Mr. Shaw was responding to a question posed by Opposition Spokesman on Transport and Works, Robert Pickersgill, at last Wednesday's (Sept. 16) sitting of the...

Nineteen senior citizens have graduated from a computer introduction course, which was offered by the Manchester Parish Library. The ceremony was held on September 15, at the Mandeville Parish Church Hall, in Manchester, where the seniors were presented with Certificates of Participation. Regional Director of the Clarendon and Manchester Library network, Mrs. Lorraine McLean, said she was delighted to see...

The Petrojam refinery, in Montego Freeport, St. James, is preparing to roll out the E-10 gasoline on November 1, to ensure islandwide coverage, approximately one year after its launch in Jamaica. To get a first hand view of the preparations, Minister of Energy and Mining, Hon. James Robertson, toured the refinery, today (September 18). "I am here at the Montego...

Does, "Talk it out, don't fight it out," sound familiar? Well, this is basically the tag-line that some residents in the Corporate Area's inner-cities have started to live by, and they have been reporting high levels of success in reducing violence. President of the March Pen Road Community Council in St. Catherine, Ivan Barnes, says that due to the presence...

The Ministry of Energy and Mining is to make a presentation to Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, on September 24, following which there should be a direction on the way forward for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), as the country seeks cheaper and varying energy sources. Speaking at a press conference at the Ministry's Trafalgar Road offices in Kingston, today...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon Audley Shaw, says that Jamaicans should soon start seeing repairs to their roads financed from the special consumption tax on fuel introduced in April. Speaking Wednesday at the weekly Post Cabinet Briefing at Jamaica House, the Minister reported that the glitches, which led to the Government receiving the payments from the Petrojam...

The Office of the Prime Minister will be submitting a draft Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Policy to Cabinet next month. This will include a recommendation to establish a Single Regulator for the converged ICT sector, which will be empowered to treat with select competition issues that are specific to the industry. Separate treatment for content regulation is also indicated...

The Copyright Act is to be amended, to incorporate provisions of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) 'Internet Treaties'. This was disclosed by Manager, Copyrights and Related Rights Directorate at the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO), Miss Philippa Davies, during a seminar on Copyrights, held today (Aug. 26), at the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), on Half Way Tree Road. Miss...

The Ministry of Finance and the Public Service and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) have signed an agreement for a grant to fund an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Technical Assistance programme, valued at US$437,500. The agreement was signed at the Ministry's Heroes Circle office Friday (August 21). The objective of the programme is to support the Government's efforts to improve...