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Since assuming office on September 11 last year, Prime Minister, Bruce Golding and other CARIFORUM leaders initialed an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), on December 31, 2007, heralding a new trade agreement between Europe and the region. Mr. Golding pointed out that the EPA provides access to a market of 490 million people with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and per capita...

Minister of Health and Environment, Rudyard Spencer, on Friday (September 12), presented a cheque valued at $47 million, to representatives of the St. Joseph's Hospital in Kingston, as the first payment for the purchase of the facility. The acquisition of the hospital, will allow the Ministry to enhance its service offerings to the growing population, and to facilitate the relocation...

The Ministry of Transport and Works, under Minister Michael Henry, has been upgrading and repairing the road network, building bridges and started plans to re-introduce the railway system, since the new Government was sworn into office in September last year. To that end, in October Cabinet approved $300 million, to effect repairs, to several roads, gullies and drains, that were...

The Embassy of Jamaica in Washington, U.S.A, in association with the Institute of Caribbean Studies, will stage a public forum titled, 'Why Exoneration for Marcus Garvey Matters', on Monday, September 22, at the Embassy of Jamaica, commencing at 6:30 p.m. Special guest panellist will be Dr. Julius Garvey, son of National Hero, Marcus Garvey and Chairman of the Exoneration Campaign,...

The Atlanta-Montego Bay Sister City Foundation, will stage its seventh annual Fund-raising Banquet and Dance, at the Atlanta Marriott Century Hotel on Saturday, September 20, commencing at 7:30 p.m. The event will raise funds for the 15th Annual Health Mission to Montego Bay, to be undertaken from October 5 to 9. According to Chairman of the Atlanta-Montego Bay Sister City...

A National Fisheries Policy, which seeks to regulate the fishing industry through new laws, to protect fishers and increase production, has been outlined by Data Manager at the Fisheries Division, Anginette Murray. Miss Murray, who was speaking at a public forum in St. Elizabeth last week, said the measures would provide for greater control of the country's resources, in meeting...

Discussion on the pros and cons, of enacting controlling legislation on mergers and acquisitions reached a high point at last week's 9th Annual Shirley Playfair Lecture, which United States (US) attorney and antitrust expert, Joseph Krauss, delivered. Mr. Krauss does not seem to put too much emphasis on the difference between mergers and acquisitions, except to recognise that a merger...

Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, Olivia Grange, has said that the Government is currently developing a National Sports Policy, to ensure that Jamaica can replicate its successes at the Beijing Olympics and to capitalise on the economic and social opportunities that the sport industry provides. Miss Grange was delivering the keynote address at the opening of the International...

Former Prime Minister, Edward Seaga, is proposing the establishment of an international sports bank by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), to provide funding and other resources, for sports development in countries in need of this type of assistance. This facility, he explained, would be akin to what currently obtains in the area of culture, which the...

Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, will on Wednesday (Sept. 17), confer the National Medal for Science and Technology, on a scientist whose work and contribution to the field of natural and applied sciences, has not only advanced knowledge in the area locally, but has also impacted the country's economic, cultural and social development. The name of the recipient will be announced...

The Honourable Olivia "Babsy" Grange, Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, has said that sports can become a leading industry in the Jamaican economy by 2030. The Minister's pronouncement, came as she addressed the Opening Ceremony of the historic two-day International Congress on Sports for Peace Development, which gets underway in earnest at the Hilton Hotel in Kingston on...

President of the University of Technology (UTech), Professor Errol Morrison, is to participate in the International Congress on Sports for Peace and Development, which is being hosted by the Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, from September 13 to 16. Professor Morrison will be a panellist at the round table discussion on 'Sports for Peace and Development: Social, Economic,...