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The Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA) recently staged its third annual 'Park and Walk' event in Mandeville. The event is geared at sensitizing the general public to the need to include physical activity in their daily routines, and to help persons to adopt practices, which will encourage better health. On the day of the walk, residents of Manchester were encouraged...

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Advisor for Communication and Information in the Caribbean, Isidro Fernandez-Aballi has commended the commitment and resourcefulness of the Jeffery Town Farmers Association (JTFA) for the establishment of a multi-media centre in that community. The JTFA recently launched a community radio - JET FM 88.7- which is the culmination of a project that...

Some $5 million has been allocated for agricultural development in North Western Clarendon, under the newly established Constituency Development Fund (CDF). This was revealed by Minister of State for Industry, Investment and Commerce and Member of Parliament for North West Clarendon, Michael Stern, during his address at a community meeting held on Thursday (May 29) at the Frankfield Primary School...

Corporate Communications Manager of the Coffee Industry Board, Arlene Daley, has expressed concern over what she says is the steady decline in coffee production over the past two decades. Speaking at a meeting of the Non-Blue Mountain Coffee Cooperative recently hosted at the Kendal Camp and Conference Centre in Manchester, she noted that next to sugar, coffee is the crop...

Fishers at the Lyssons fishing beach in St. Thomas are the beneficiaries of fishing gear valued at more than $3 million from the St. Catherine-based charity organization, Food for the Poor. The equipment which includes boats, engines, a newly constructed gear shed and an assortment of accessories were handed over in a brief ceremony on Friday (May 30) at the...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw has urged public servants to work together to provide good service and maintain standards of which the country can be proud. "We have a challenge in our sphere of activity - in order for us to move forward, everything connects, the quality of public service connects to a more productive society,...

The Manchester Parish Council in collaboration with the Parish Health Department will on Monday, June 9 host a four-hour seminar, at the Cecil Charlton Hall to update persons providing beauty services on the public health regulations. The seminar, which is slated to start at 8:30 a.m., will see presenters highlighting the importance of operators of barber shops and beauty salons...

With the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season set to begin tomorrow (June 1) the St. Mary Parish Council has been conducting a drain cleaning programme throughout the parish to reduce the possibility of flooding. Speaking with JIS News, Disaster Coordinator for St. Mary, Yolande Williams said the programme began in April and is being conducted in all 13 parish council divisions....

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) is appealing to the private sector to contribute to the National Disaster Insurance Fund to increase it from $150 million to $30 billion. Director General of ODPEM, Ronald Jackson made the appeal yesterday (May 30) at the press launch of Disaster Preparedness Month which is observed in June. "My biggest concern...

The Montego Bay Metro Bus Service is to be expanded to facilitate improved and efficient service across western Jamaica, Transport and Works Minister, Michael Henry has announced. Speaking in the 2008/09 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on Wednesday (May 28), Mr. Henry said there was a need for the expansion of the state-owned bus service in western Jamaica...

Leader of the Youth Parliament of Jamaica, Tamian Beckford, has said that adults need to invest in young persons to enable them to become more competent in the future. "As a young man who has had a pretty rough time growing up.I am pretty aware of the investments that we need to make or that adults need to make. These...

The Dispute Resolution Foundation of Jamaica (DRF) will be staging its second annual fundraising concert today (June 1) in an effort to improve its training facilities. Featuring the Jamaican Folk Singers, the concert will take place at the Wolmer's Girls School Auditorium, 2 Marescaux Road in Kingston commencing at 5:00 p.m. Tickets cost $1,000 for adults and $500 for children...