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The Honorable Olivia "Babsy" Grange, Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports (MICYS) has said that women are now represented in all spheres of social, economic, cultural and political life. Minister Grange spoke today at the showing of a number of short documentaries, WHY WOMEN COUNT, presented by CVM Television in partnership with Television Trust for the Environment (TVE) to...

The Government and Opposition will resume talks at Vale Royal tomorrow (June 11), following a meeting in January of this year. At that meeting, both parties agreed to establish bi-partisan committees to review and report on critical matters as they related to specific issues raised at the meeting. The January meeting was described by both parties as cordial, frank and...

Minister of State with the responsibility for Project Implementation and Service Delivery in the Office of the Prime Minister, Daryl Vaz will tomorrow (Wednesday June 11) sign a $25-million contract for the upgrading of Reach Falls in Portland. Signing will take place at 12:30pm (June 11) at Jamaica House. The improvement of Reach Falls was designed to provide orderly development...

A five-member delegation from the Ministry of Health & Environment, headed by Senator Aundre Franklin, Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry, is currently in Cuba participating in the fifth session of the Jamaica/Cuba Intergovernmental Joint Commission meeting. The group which departed the island on June 8, 2008 will over its two-day sojourn in Havana participate in health cooperation talks initiated by...

Seventy per cent or approximately 8,000 teachers who will be administering the Literacy 1-2-3 programme in primary schools islandwide, have been trained to deliver the programme. The disclosure was made by Jean Hastings, Project Manager of the Primary Education Support Project (PESP), during an interview with JIS News. The training, which was facilitated through the PESP, will enable teachers at...

Like some other countries in the world, Jamaica will soon be switching from the use of plastic bags to more environmentally-friendly biodegradable bags. Bangladesh, China, and Ireland have reduced plastic bag consumption by 90 per cent, while Israel, Canada, Western India, Botswana, Kenya, South Africa, Taiwan, and Singapore have banned or are moving towards banning the plastic bag. Executive Director...

Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett has said that crime is having an adverse effect on the nation's tourist industry. "Crime, in my mind is the single most debilitating factor, the one area that is worrying to me beyond anything else, and I must tell you that the fuel crisis is not as worrying to me as crime. The turmoil in...

Some 117 local law enforcement border control personnel graduated from a special two-week training course at the Police Academy in Twickenham Park, St. Catherine on June 6. The course was aimed at strengthening the capabilities of the officers to stem the illegal trafficking in guns, gun parts, ammunition and explosives. Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security, Senator...

A computer laboratory was opened at Harmons All-age School in Manchester on June 5. Construction of the building and donation of the computers were sponsored by the One By One organization, a Christian mission operating out of Pennsylvania in the United States. Addressing the opening ceremony, Principal of the school, Georgia Waugh-Richards said the gesture by the organization was a...

A committee, aimed at strengthening community security, was officially launched on June 8 in Bamboo River, St. Thomas. This is part of the Jamaica Constabulary Force's (JCF) effort to promote community policing and enhance greater community safety. The newly formed 'Committee For Community Safety and Security' will allow citizens of particular communities to take an active part in preserving and...

Thirty-five stalwarts will receive the Prime Minister's Medal of Appreciation for their service to education, at a ceremony to be held at the National Arena on June 11, beginning at 7:00 p.m. Governor-General, the Most Hon. Professor Sir Kenneth Hall and Lady Hall will head the list of dignitaries, who will include Prime Minister Bruce Golding and Mrs. Golding. The...

Government is committed to consolidating all the various tax deductions coming from both the employees and the employers with a portion dedicated to supporting the delivery of proper health services. This should come into effect by April of next year, Prime Minister Bruce Golding has disclosed. The Prime Minister was addressing the annual awards banquet of the Medical Association of...