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Prime Minister Bruce Golding says Government has set aside in this year's budget $682 million to continue work on a number of social intervention programmes, including the Citizens Security and Justice programme. He said that under the Citizens Security and Justice Programme, some 17 communities have already been targeted and that the programme had been successful in some communities but...

Developed states through their consolidation of media and information communication technologies often shape the views of reality and structure the perspectives of consumers in the developing states. This is the 'world information order' and it is being challenged. Expressing this view, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports (MICYS), Faith Innerarity tells JIS News that, "What...

Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Christopher Tufton, has said that the Ministry's $2.5 million allocation to the Christiana Potato Growers Co-operative Association Limited, will assist with the development of a tissue culture facility that will provide planting material for irish potatoes. Responding to questions raised by Member of Parliament for Central Kingston, Ronald Thwaites, in the House of Parliament on Tuesday...

Drivers and sidemen directly employed to the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) have been given an opportunity to vie for prizes in the recently launched 'Get the Cash Competition.' The competition is part of efforts to improve the quality of service delivery and to raise the morale of NSWMA sanitation teams across the island. The launch took place at...

River training to protect the banks leading to the newly constructed multi-million dollar Yallahs bridge in St. Thomas, has begun. The river training works, expected to last for six months, will cover some 300 metres. The $400 million bridge is expected to be opened in October. Communications Manager at the National Works Agency (NWA), Stephen Shaw, told JIS News that...

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Justice, Carol Palmer, is calling on law abiding citizens to utilise their physical and mental resources to tackle the challenges facing communities. The appeal was made during the Victim Support Unit's (VSU) Anniversary Church Service at the Emmanuel Apostolic Church in Portmore, St. Catherine on July 20. The service was held under the theme:...

Repair work on the Roselle main road, a key access road to the commercial town of Morant Bay in St. Thomas, is expected to begin in August. This was disclosed by Communications Manager at the National Works Agency (NWA), Stephen Shaw, who told JIS News that the $100 million contract would be executed in phases. The Roselle main road has...

Reverend Dr. Gordon Cowan, Principal of Knox High School in Clarendon, has said that the Jamaican culture should be the foundation on which the education system is built. "The Jamaican culture should be the bedrock of the Jamaican education system. We should find in our culture, the ways to teach and to educate our children," he emphasised. Citing the residential...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding says the initial results being seen so far in the fight against crime have been encouraging. However, he has emphasized that the country is nowhere near a point of celebration as there was much more work to be done. ' I am satisfied that the police force and the security forces generally , are organized; that...

Members of the Alpart/Essex Valley All Stars football team on Monday (July 21) left for Oslo, Norway, to participate in that country's under-14 football cup competition. The squad will compete with 1,500 teams from 53 countries including Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago and St. Lucia, and return home on August 4. The boys first entered the competition in 1999, and have...

Some 32 young persons are participating in a youth camp at the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) in Mandeville, put on by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, under its Closed to Crime Initiative. The camp, which began on July 20, last until July 27. The participants will engage in sessions dealing with conflict and anger management, depression, self esteem, sexuality, etiquette...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw, has announced that the Government is seeking to re-generate high production of irish potatoes in Jamaica, with assistance from Spain. Speaking recently at a handing over ceremony for the renovated Devon Community Centre in Manchester, the Minister noted that the country once produced all the irish potatoes that it consumed, and...