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Commuters who use the Jamaica Urban Transit Company's (JUTC) Express and Premium services will benefit from a roll back in the fares effective Monday (August 24). Speaking at a JIS Think Tank Session Wednesday (August 19), Corporate Communications Manager at the JUTC, Reginald Allen, announced that commuters will benefit from a roll back to the fares which existed prior to...

Persons from Bluefields, and adjoining communities in eastern Westmoreland, took to the streets recently to clean approximately three and a half miles of garbage from the roadway, under the theme 'Bluefields beauty is our duty'. Participants in the Bluefields Peoples' Community Association (BPCA) Annual Environmental Summer Camp, now in progress in the community, took the lead in constructing anti-litter signs...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding has expressed satisfaction with the expansion work now being undertaken at the Boscobel aerodrome, in St Mary. The runway is being extended to 4,800 feet in Phase One, to allow airplanes seating up to 15 to 20 persons to land. Work is expected to be completed by the end of November and the aerodrome...

A major road patching programme, geared at community roads long in need of repairs, is being rolled out by the National Works Agency (NWA) at the direction of Transport and Works Minister, Hon. Mike Henry. The programme, which involves initial expenditure of $60 million, is to be intensified with funding anticipated from the dedicated cess from fuel sales to the...

The Ministry of Tourism has signed an agreement with US Airways, which will provide for an increase in airlift out of the United States of America (USA) to Jamaica. "An arrangement has been concluded with US Airways to commence some 64 rotations over a 17-week period out of Phoenix (Arizona). We start on the 17th of December and we conclude...

In response to speculation in a recent media report re expenditure on the home where Transport and Works Minister, Hon. Mike Henry, now resides, the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) has provided the following outline of the facts behind the matter: A property at 5 Millsborough Crescent, St. Andrew, comprising a dwelling house with helper's quarters, a pool and related...

Following an appraisal of a recent newspaper article that speculated on expenditure on the premises at 5 Millsborough Crescent, St. Andrew, which is now occupied by Transport and Works Minister, Hon. Mike Henry, the Ministry has moved to outline the background to the actual expenditure on the property, which was acquired and refurbished by the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ)....

The traffic problems which have long plagued the town of Old Harbour, St. Catherine, are expected to be significantly reduced with the opening of a new transportation centre. The multi-million dollar facility, situated on Burke Road, was officially opened during a brief ceremony on Monday (August 10), involving Member of Parliament for South West St. Catherine, which includes Old Harbour,...

The Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo), is accepting entries for its 'Spruce Up Jamaica, Nice Up Yuh Self' Essay competition, which is geared at exposing young Jamaicans to Brand Jamaica and the offerings of the tourism sector. Speaking with JIS News, Spruce Up Jamaica Co-ordinator, Marline Stephenson-Dalley, explained that the competition would "engage young people to start thinking about this...

A number of roadways in North West St. Ann are being rehabilitated through a $10 million allocation from the Constituency Development Fund (CDF). Member of Parliament (MP), Othneil Lawrence, in his 2009/10 Sectoral presentation in Parliament on Tuesday (July 28), said that under the constituency's road improvement programme, which has received "critical input" from the Ministry of Transport and Works...

The Ministry of Energy and Mining is pursuing the productive utilisation of rehabilitated mined out bauxite lands for agricultural initiatives, State Minister, Hon. Laurence Broderick, has announced. This comes against the background of concerns resonating "over several decades" and heightened by the onset of the global economic recession, of the need to find solutions to improve the standard of living,...

The Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMI) is preparing students for professions in the highly skilled shipping and maritime industry, utilising millions of dollars worth of training simulators, which were acquired through a combination of Government and donor funding. These state-of-the-art devices, which reproduce real life tasks in a safe environment, help to bridge the gap between theory and application. According to...