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Thirty residents of Spanish Town and Portmore received gardening kits at the official launch of the urban backyard garden programme held yesterday(June 21) at the Portmore Lions' Civic Centre, Portmore, St. Catherine. The initiative, which was announced by Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Christopher Tufton in his budget presentation, aims to assist householders to grow fruits, vegetables and herbs in containers...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding along with several Government Ministers, Members of Parliament, top government executives, mayors and community leaders , today toured St Mary making stops at the Boscobel Aerodrome, the North Coast Highway and a private medical facility at Pampano Bay. He also took the time out to visit Mount Industry, in St Catherine, for a brief presentation to...

The Honourable Olivia "Babsy" Grange, Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, MICYS) is calling on the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) to ensure that the memories of journalists such as Norman Cuff are carefully preserved and that their record of performance is held up for examination and emulation by the succeeding generations of journalists. Minister Grange described the late...

Minister of Water and Housing, Dr. Horace Chang, has hailed the donation of motor vehicle and equipment to the National Water Commission (NWC) by the Japanese Government, stating that the gift will improve the entity's ability to monitor and control the supply system. The donation, which includes two four-wheel drive Suzuki Jimny motor vehicles, two power quality analyzers, valve locaters,...

The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has expressed concern about the mounting electricity bills now facing Jamaicans and has said that it is in the company's interest to guide consumers in their conservation methods. Speaking at a recent JIS Think Tank at the agency's headquarters, Head of Corporate Communication at JPS, Winsome Callum, noted that Jamaicans are having a hard...

Training of community personnel to assist in the operation of disaster relief shelters in Hanover, including 15 deemed critical shelters, is underway in earnest in the parish. Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) Parish Co-ordinator, Olga Headley, told JIS News that 15 of the 50 shelters in the parish have been declared as critical shelters because of the...

Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) Parish Manager for St. James, Wentworth Mitchell, has encouraged farmers to diversify their crops as a means of increasing income and cushioning the effects of bad weather Mr. Mitchell, who was addressing the annual general meeting of the St. James Association of Branch Societies of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), held in Montego Bay on...

Commissioner of Corrections, Major Richard Reese, has hailed the community service order and the parole supervision programmes, noting that these initiatives have helped to reduce the prison population, while providing rehabilitation for offenders. "We have in excess of 4,000 persons being managed in the community serving community service orders. Had those persons been in prison, we would have in excess...

Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, Olivia Grange has said that her Ministry is committed to a renewed focus on sports as an element of national definition and transformation. Miss Grange, who was making her contribution to the 2008/09 Sectoral Debate in Gordon House on Tuesday (June 17), said that in addition to recreation and leisure, there are economic...

The Information Technology (IT) programme at the Carron Hall High School in St. Mary has received a major boost, with the presentation of six computers to that institution by the Jamaica Awareness Association of California on June 18. This Association comprises a group of Jamaicans residing in California in the United States, who have formed themselves into an organization which...

Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Senator Dorothy Lightbourne, has said that the criminal justice system has a key role to play in restoring harmony and peace to the Jamaican society. "There can be no peace without justice," said Senator Lightbourne in her presentation at Third Biennial Jamaican Diaspora Conference held recently at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston,...

The University of Technology (UTech) and the Jamaican Institute of Management (JIM), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), to enhance management training and other institutional collaboration between the two institutions. Addressing the signing ceremony, today (June 20), at King's House, Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Honourable Professor Sir Kenneth Hall, commended the two institutions for the partnership and collaborative...