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The Manchester Division of the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB), has organised a number of activities to observe Fire Safety Awareness Week, to run from October 26 to November 1. Sergeant Richard Smikle of the Fire Prevention Department told JIS News that the theme for the week was 'Information is key for a fire safe community'. He said the activities, to...

The Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ), has undertaken a programme of reorganisation of the island's People's Co-operative (PC) Banks, which should see the launch of a national co-operative within a few weeks. Byron McDonald, General Manager for Credit and Loan Administration at the DBJ, which has responsibility for the co-operatives, told JIS News, that the necessary resolutions to implement the...

Chairman of the National Poppy Appeal Committee, Lt. Col. Oral Khan is appealing to Jamaicans to support the drive to raise funds in the sum of $3.2 million, to assist ageing Jamaican ex-servicemen who fought in World War II. Lt. Col. Oral Khan, told JIS News in an interview, that the 2003 National Poppy Appeal, launched on October 5, would...

Seven students, four of whom are studying at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, have been presented with scholarships totalling more than C$15,000 from a Canadian charitable organization. The Pride of Toronto, Chapter No. 12, with members mainly of Jamaican heritage, handed out the scholarships at its 25th Anniversary Dinner and Charitable Presentation held at the Rameses Shriners...

Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of National Security, Senator Kern Spencer yesterday (Oct. 6), presented a report to Cabinet on the Youth Anti-crime Initiative, 14 months after it was launched. The report by Senator Spencer was made under a recent addition to the agenda of the Cabinet meeting, whereby every first Monday of the month, one member of the Council...

The November 15 inauguration of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has been postponed until the budget has been finalized for the establishment of the Court. Minister of Justice, Senator A. J. Nicholson made the disclosure while responding to questions posed by Opposition Senator, Bruce Golding about the establishment of the CCJ, during the sitting of the Senate at Gordon...

More households have access to public pipe-borne water than ever before, with that number increasing by 117,910 over the last decade, to 575,494, which represents 76 per cent of the 748,392 households across the island. These comparative figures are contained in the 1991 and 2001 Population Censuses, which provide the greatest avenue for gathering the most comprehensive set of information...

Cabinet has approved an $81.2 million contract to a German firm, HP Gauff Ingenieure, to provide technical assistance for the supply of water to Milk River, Clarendon; Shettlewood, Hanover; Hope Bay, Portland, and Christiana/Spaldings in Manchester.The contract will involve the designing and supervision of the water supply system. At a post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House yesterday (October 6), Minister...

The life and work of National Hero, the Right Excellent Paul Bogle and the Morant Bay uprising will be the focus of this year's Heritage Week activities in St. Thomas from October 13 to October 20. Co-ordinator of the Paul Bogle Foundation, Dorette Abrahams, told JIS News that during the week, an exhibition to recognize the life and work of...

Over 20,000 young persons have benefited from programmes run by the Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation over the past 25 years. At the post-Cabinet press briefing held yesterday (Oct. 6) at Jamaica House, Information Minister, Senator Burchell Whiteman, said the landmark achievement was contained in the organisation's annual report, which would be tabled in Parliament soon. Pointing out that the...

As part of activities to mark Fire Safety Awareness Week, which begins on October 26, the Jamaica Fire Brigade will be intensifying its efforts to sensitise those communities that are more prone to incidents of fire, about the need to be alert and to observe safety measures. Statistics have revealed that between 1997 and 2002 there were 146 deaths caused...

Director General in the Ministry of Development, Dennis Morrison, has said that Jamaica was now undergoing a period of reform to adjust and modernise the economy, similar to what Great Britain did some years ago. "In terms of the economic situation, ours is similar to what was experienced in Britain in the late 1970s into the 1980s and the early...