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Prime Minister Bruce Golding last night (June 25) endorsed a massive downtown Kingston redevelopment project which will be undertaken by the Urban Development Corporation in collaboration with the Kingston Restoration Company and the Kingston City Centre Improvement Company. The Prime Minister in his address at the presentation of the redevelopment and urban renewal project at the Jamaica Conference Centre described...

Young persons in North West Clarendon have been urged to make use of available land in the area, to address the global food crisis and to provide an income for themselves. This call has come from Alvin Murray, Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) representative, at a Constituency Development Fund (CDF) meeting in Spaldings, recently. "The way forward is to get...

The Jamaica Business Development Centre (JBDC) will stage the first in a series of workshops aimed at developing micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSME) in South Trelawny in July, Member of Parliament, Marissa Dalrymple-Phillibert has announced. Making her contribution to the 2008/09 Sectoral Debate in Gordon House on Wednesday (June 25), Mrs. Dalrymple-Phillibert said discussions to this end were held...

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Dr. Kenneth Baugh, has said that with oil prices reaching astronomical levels and predicted to go even higher, inflation and economic growth in many developing countries would be impacted negatively. Making his presentation in the 2008/09 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on June 25, the Deputy Prime Minister said that Jamaica's...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Dr. Kenneth Baugh, has applauded Jamaicans overseas who remain motivated to contribute to the development of the country. "I am very satisfied that the Diaspora is a very important and powerful resource for Jamaica, with great potential for technical help and financial assistance to Jamaica in terms of investment...

The Government is giving further financial assistance to the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), to bring the total contribution from the state to the JFF to One Hundred and Fifty Million dollars as Jamaica prepares for the World Cup in South Africa Finals in 2010. The announcement came today (June 26) from Honourable Olivia "Babsy" Grange, Minister of Information, Culture Youth...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding will address the opening session of the 29th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to be held from July 1-4, in Antigua and Barbuda. The four day conference of CARICOM Heads will be chaired by Prime Minister, Winston Baldwin Spencer of Antigua and Barbuda and will focus on...

Health and Environment Minister, Rudyard Spencer, is stressing the need for a collaborative approach to curtailing the spread of chronic non-communicable diseases. He pointed out that Jamaica currently faces the threat of an "overwhelming epidemic" of diseases, such as cancer, diabetes and hypertension, noting that while not "dramatic and visible" as communicable diseases, they had a long chain of development....

As CARIFORUM countries prepare to sign and implement an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU), Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Dr. Ken Baugh, has emphasized that Jamaica must make every effort to be first in line with projects to take advantage of assistance under the agreement. "The Caribbean is the first and only region to...

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, Faith Innerarity, has said that a review of the age of retirement of civil servants is currently underway. Speaking at a Post Cabinet Press Briefing at the Office of the Prime Minister on June 25, Mrs. Innerarity informed that the need to review the age of retirement was as...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Dr. Ken Baugh, has discounted criticism of the Most-Favoured Nation (MFN) clause, which is contained in the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union (EU) and CARIFORUM countries. He emphasized that the MFN clause only has implications for trade agreements with the larger developing countries, which he said...

Jamaica will continue to press for additional flexibilities in the tariff cutting formula for small, vulnerable economies; the recognition of long-standing preferences in agriculture, and for longer transition periods to facilitate adjustment, in the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) Doha Development Round discussions. This is necessary, as participation in these discussions remain central to balancing Jamaica's trading interests at the multilateral...