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More than 280 children in Clarendon and Manchester are participating in a Jamalco organized three-week Science and Environment Camp, which will end on July 31. They are in the age group 6-11, and are children of Jamalco workers and persons living in the company's mining areas. Officers from the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) have given lessons...

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth, and Sports (MICYS), Mrs. Faith Innerarity has said that the recently concluded 7th Conference of Ministers of Information of the Non-Aligned Movement will strengthen information systems in developing countries like Jamaica, to ensure that the country's ideas and images accurately reflect our people and identity. Mrs. Innerarity made the point during...

As the CARICOM representative within the Rio Group, Jamaica will seek to raise issues of concern to the region, while leveraging high level political contacts to deepen its relations with other Latin American and Caribbean members of the group. This was stated by Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Dr. Ronald Robinson, during...

Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, Senator Warren Newby, has said that a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for inter-ministerial co-ordination between the sponsoring Ministries of the National Youth Policy will be signed shortly. Making his contribution in the State of the Nation Debate in the Senate on July 18, Senator Newby informed that the MoU...

Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, Senator Warren Newby, has informed that during this financial year, the Government would seek to have Youth Ambassadors represented on a wider range of policy advisory bodies. This, he said, was in order to ensure "that the views of young people are better represented in all areas of government...

As the current Chair of the CARIFORUM regional group in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, Jamaica has sought to play a pro-active role in regard to a number of issues, including the sustainable development of ACP states and their gradual integration into the global economy. Making his contribution to the 2008/09 State of the Nation Debate in the...

Action is being taken, in alliance with CARICOM and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, to convey Jamaica's position to the European Commission, Latin America and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in regard to the draft agreement, which proposes a severe reduction to the current tariff for bananas entering the European market. This was noted by State Minister in the...

State Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, Robert Montague, is urging Trelawny residents to participate in the development process of the parish, and strive to become good civic citizens. "The way forward for Trelawny is very bright with the coming of the new cruise shipping port. The people here are very excited about it and they are very...

Outstanding primary school teachers involved in the Caribbean Centres of Excellence for Teacher Training (CETT) programme have been recognized by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Joint Board of Teacher Education (JBTE) at the University of the West Indies. An award ceremony was held recently at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Resort in Ocho Rios, to honour...

Mr. President, members of this honorable senate it is with deep gratitude and sense of responsibility that I rise this morning to make my contribution to this state of the nation debate. I do so Mr. President in the context of parliamentary secretary in a Ministry charged with the responsibility of Social Transformation, through its subject areas of Information, Culture...

The Devon community centre in Manchester, which sustained major damage from hurricanes Ivan and Dean, has been refurbished at a cost of $5M under the Lift Up Jamaica Programme. The facility was formally re-opened and handed over to the Devon Community Council on July 17. Speaking at the handing over ceremony, President of the Council - David Hackett said the...

Chairman of the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ), Professor Errol Miller says the public's input is being sought in drafting the final proposal regarding campaign financing for political parties. He notes that the ECJ's proposals, in this regard, are subject to review, and as such public participation was key in determining the composition of the final document of recommendations. To...