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Jamaica will be the featured country at this year's staging of the Caribbean Tales Film Festival set to take place in July in Toronto, Canada. Jamaica's Consul General to Toronto, Anne-Marie Bonner, and filmmaker and Artistic Director of Caribbean Tales, Frances-Anne Solomon, made the announcement recently, following the screening of Ms. Solomon's feature film 'A Winter Tale' starring Jamaica's renowned...

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Karl Samuda, noting the increase in obesity worldwide, has said that Jamaicans must be encouraged to be more careful about what they eat and drink. The Minister, in his message to mark World Consumer Rights Day (WCRD) today (March 15) under the theme: 'Junk Food Generation: Unhealthy Food Promotion: Unhealthy Children' said that "obesity...

Vice-President of Operations at the National Health Fund (NHF), Cecil White, is hailing the success of the Jamaica Drug For the Elderly Programme (JADEP), through which prescription drugs are provided free of cost to senior citizens over 60 years of age. Launched in 1996 by the Ministry of Health, the programme aims to improve access to essential drugs for older...

Jamaica will be the featured country at this year's staging of the Caribbean Tales Film Festival set to take place in July in Toronto, Canada. Jamaica's Consul General to Toronto, Anne-Marie Bonner, and filmmaker and Artistic Director of Caribbean Tales, Frances-Anne Solomon, made the announcement recently, following the screening of Ms. Solomon's feature film 'A Winter Tale' starring Jamaica's renowned...

The Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) is continuing its mission to better the life of the country's most poor and vulnerable, through social assistance initiatives as well as the promotion of good health and education. There are 243,000 beneficiaries registered with PATH, which is more than 100 per cent of the original target, when the programme was...

The Fair Trading Commission (FTC) continues its focus on competition advocacy as part of efforts to maintain competition within the local marketplace.Executive Director of the FTC, Barbara Lee tells JIS News that effort is to raise awareness about the benefits of competition and to ensure that people do not run afoul of the competition laws that have been established in...

The Pesticides Control Authority (PCA) has taken its series of community meetings to St. Elizabeth, to sensitize residents about proper chemical use. At a meeting held on Wednesday (March 12) in Pedro Plains square, Senior Inspector of the Western Office of the PCA, Lee Taylor, said it is important that farmers and the general public receive continuous information on pesticide...

Construction work on the dualisation of the Bogue main road in Montego Bay should begin early in the next financial year, Manager of Communications and Customer Service at the National Works Agency (NWA), Stephen Shaw has reported. Mr. Shaw told JIS News that concerns about gas and water pipelines and utility poles hindering the progress of the work along that...

Energy, Mining and Telecommunications Minister, Clive Mullings, has said that Jamaica is capable of attaining first world status and generating significant global impact through information and communications technology (ICT). He has, however, lamented the "lack of technical capacity" in this regard, which he said, could limit the country's ability to take advantage of opportunities which could accrue, particularly within the...

The Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) is continuing its mission to better the life of the country's most poor and vulnerable, through social assistance initiatives as well as the promotion of good health and education. There are 243,000 beneficiaries registered with PATH, which is more than 100 per cent of the original target, when the programme was...

The Fair Trading Commission (FTC) continues its focus on competition advocacy as part of efforts to maintain competition within the local marketplace.Executive Director of the FTC, Barbara Lee tells JIS News that effort is to raise awareness about the benefits of competition and to ensure that people do not run afoul of the competition laws that have been established in...

The Pesticides Control Authority (PCA) has taken its series of community meetings to St. Elizabeth, to sensitize residents about proper chemical use. At a meeting held on Wednesday (March 12) in Pedro Plains square, Senior Inspector of the Western Office of the PCA, Lee Taylor, said it is important that farmers and the general public receive continuous information on pesticide...