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Budgetary allocation for the Rent Assessment Board has been doubled for the 2008/09 financial year when compared to 2007/08, according to the Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House. The allocation this year amounts to $13.656 million, up from $6.771 million last year. This money is to carry out the Board's activities in Kingston and St. Andrew. The Rent Assessment...

A sum of $10 million has been allotted to the Improved Reproductive Health of Youth Project, as set out in the 2008/2009 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The allotment, which remains the same as last year, will be used to continue improvements in the reproductive health practices among adolescent youth. Funded by the United States Agency...

Chairman of the Caribbean Farmers Network (CaFAN) and President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Senator Norman Grant, has said that if farmers' organizations in the Caribbean are strengthened, they could play a more critical role in the economic transformation of countries in the region. "We believe that as a group, as an organization, we have a critical role to...

A sum of $63.3 million has been earmarked for the Jamaica HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Project in the Ministry of Health and Environment in the 2008/09 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The allocation is for the provision of support for selected activities under the National HIV/AIDS Strategic Plan and assistance for the government in curbing the...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has said that the Government would be aggressively pursuing tax collection from delinquent persons. Tax collection, he emphasised, would help solve some of the nation's economic problems. The Prime Minister was addressing some 400 Jamaican nationals and friends of Jamaica at a town hall meeting, held at Nova Southeastern University in Davie, South Florida last week....

A sum of $609.48 million has been set aside in the 2008/09 Estimates of Expenditure for the development of sport and recreational facilities, under the Venezuelan Investment Fund - BANDES. The projects, which are being implemented by the Urban Development Corporation (UDC), include the GC Foster College football field ($20 million); the Stadium East practice field ($3.5 million); phase two...

The Caribbean Chapter of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators now has 30 new Associate members, bringing the total membership to 45, following a recently concluded training workshop at the Courtleigh Hotel, in Kingston. The disclosure was made by Convener and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Caribbean Chapter, John Bassie during an interview with JIS News. "The Chapter now...

Minister of Education, Andrew Holness is lauding the benefits of the Grade One Inventory Diagnostic Test, explaining that it serves as an excellent means of engaging parents in the education process. The Test is administered to students as soon as they enter primary school at age six and assesses the child's academic readiness for the Grade One curriculum. Speaking at...

Jamaica's new Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Anthony Johnson has called on the hemispheric community to take into account the "vulnerabilities and special needs of small island states." He said that the countries should forge a consensus, within the Inter-American system, that would enable states, like Jamaica, to confront the significant trans-national challenges that confront...

Budgetary allocation for the Rent Assessment Board has been doubled for the 2008/09 financial year when compared to 2007/08, according to the Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House. The allocation this year amounts to $13.656 million, up from $6.771 million last year. This money is to carry out the Board's activities in Kingston and St. Andrew. The Rent Assessment...

A sum of $10 million has been allotted to the Improved Reproductive Health of Youth Project, as set out in the 2008/2009 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The allotment, which remains the same as last year, will be used to continue improvements in the reproductive health practices among adolescent youth. Funded by the United States Agency...

Chairman of the Caribbean Farmers Network (CaFAN) and President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Senator Norman Grant, has said that if farmers' organizations in the Caribbean are strengthened, they could play a more critical role in the economic transformation of countries in the region. "We believe that as a group, as an organization, we have a critical role to...