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Minister of State in the Ministry of Mining and Telecommunications, Laurence Broderick has emphasised that quarrying is an important and viable business, supplying the needs of the building and construction sector. He also pointed out that quarrying of several of the nation's rivers, especially those in the eastern section of the country, has been necessary in order to control siltation...

A revenue centre is to be opened soon in Portmore, Director of Public Relations for Taxpayer Support Services in the Tax Administration Service Department (TASD), Meris Haughton has said. In an interview with JIS News, Miss Haughton said that the revenue centre would serve as a one-stop shop, where all business transactions regarding the paying of taxes could be done....

Residents of St. Thomas have been urged to take hurricane preparedness seriously, and not to wait until there is a warning before stocking up on essential items. This advice was given by Parish Disaster Co-ordinator in St. Thomas, Millicent Blake, at a Disaster Management Committee meeting, held on July 9 at the Blumah Palace in Prospect. Members of the committee,...

Micky Lord is on a mission to eradicate violence from his community, develop social intervention programmes and educate the persons he serves, so they can be marketable. As a matter of fact, Mr. Lord works 24 hours to protect the people and to give advice to persons who call on him. Twenty seven year-old Constable Lord of Gregory Park in...

Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Christopher Tufton has said that more emphasis must be placed on the sector as a career for young persons. Delivering the keynote address at the recent school leaving exercise of the Sydney Pagon Agricultural School in St. Elizabeth, Dr. Tufton said that the sector should be given more prominence by stakeholders, where school leavers would see...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has asked the National Parent Teachers Association of Jamaica (NPTAJ) to spearhead a national programme to get more parents to understand that the educational progress of their children depends on their involvement. He said the society has been expecting teachers to do much more than should be required of them. He added that teachers should be...

A new dimension is being added to the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), to identify and assist working age persons in beneficiary households. Making the announcement in the House of Representatives on Wednesday (July 9), Minister of Labour and Social Security, Pearnel Charles said the new initiative, 'Step to Work', will enable persons to become more employable,...

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) is currently developing 11 small community based water supply schemes in five parishes across the island. "These include three in Portland at Bellevue, Norwich/Boundbrook and Bybrook/Skibo; three in St. Catherine at Church Pen, Harkers Hall and Mountain Pass; two in St. Mary at Scotts Hall and Hampstead; two in St. Thomas at Rowlandsfield and...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Water and Housing, Everald Warmington, has said that the access period for the US$2 million revolving loan, which was provided by Venezuela two years ago, will be extended in order to provide additional housing for victims of Hurricanes Dean and Ivan. The State Minister, in his presentation in the 2008/09 Sectoral Debate in...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Water and Housing, Everald Warmington, has said that the Government and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) have partnered to undertake several water projects under the Rural Water Programme. He emphasised that the aim is to move universal water access in rural Jamaica from the current level of 46 per cent to 75 per...

Minister of Health, Rudyard Spencer has revealed that Jamaica is leading the Caribbean in the fight against AIDS, having reduced the prevalence rate of HIV in Jamaica to about 1.5 per cent, thereby reducing the number of persons in the country who die of AIDS. The Minister was speaking at the launch of the US$44.1 million Global Fund Agreement on...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has announced that by the end of September this year, some $2.7 billion would be spent on a redundancy package for workers employed to the sugar industry. Mr. Golding made this disclosure at the 113th Annual General Meeting of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), at the Denbigh show ground in Clarendon on Wednesday (July 9). He...