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Medical officer of health, Dr. Herbert Elliott, has called for a ban on smoking in public, especially at sporting events, where secondary smoke can be absorbed into an athlete's body. Dr. Elliot, who was addressing a meeting of the Rotary Club of Kingston at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel yesterday (Jan. 3), said athletes have tested positive for marijuana, after hanging...

With the Half Way Tree Transportation Centre scheduled to open on January 12, Chairman of the Licensing Committee at the Transport Authority, Arthur McKinley is assuring that the Authority's operations will be stepped up in and around the centre. The Chairman who was speaking at a weekly JIS Think Tank session held on January 3, said the Authority is seeking...

The Clarendon police and members of the parish's Crime Prevention Committee feted more than 3,500 children at 11 police stations, recently. The treat was funded by local business leaders and persons from the parish who are living overseas. Members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) prepared the meals and interacted with children and parents in attendance. Andrew Cox, a member...

Marketing and Sales Manager at the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), Lenworth Simms, has noted that the need for a modern central facility that will provide one station for all JUTC buses terminating in the Half Way Tree area was a major factor in the construction of the Half Way Tree Transportation Centre. Mr. Simms who was speaking at a...

Some 10 years after his death, former Prime Minister, Michael Manley will create history when he will be the first Jamaican leader to be inducted into the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame, on Saturday, January 12. Mr. Manley's induction, part of the annual Trumpet Awards, will take place at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, in downtown...

Jamaicans in the United Kingdom (UK) have donated $2.6 million (

The Boston Community Centre in Portland has been renamed the Dalbert Sharpe Community Centre, in honour of the resident, who was instrumental in its development. The decision to rename the facility was spearheaded by the Boston Old Student's Association Benevolent Society, which has assumed responsibility for the management of the centre for the past 17 years. Mr. Sharpe, who is...

Immigration rights advocate Irwine Clare, Sr., is among a number of past students of community colleges in Jamaica, who will be honoured at the annual conference of the Council of Community Colleges of Jamaica (CCCJ), slated for January 8 at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Resort in Ocho Rios. Mr. Clare, who is a graduate of the Brown's Town Community College,...

Jamaican-born Canadian resident, Christopher A. Harris, is among 27 persons to be awarded the Order of Ontario, the highest and most prestigious honour from the province of Ontario in Canada. The Order of Ontario is presented to residents of the province for 'Excellence and Achievement in any Field'. The investiture ceremony will take place on January 24, 2008, at Queen's...

The process of awarding national honours to Jamaicans and foreign nationals will be the subject of review by a special committee chaired by Professor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies, the Hon. Rex Nettleford O.M. The committee had its first meeting at Jamaica House on Thursday (Jan. 3) with Prime Minister Bruce Golding who said a review of...

Prime Minister Hon. Bruce Golding has mandated the Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw and the Minister Without Portfolio, Don Wheby, to arrange an immediate meeting with the Attorney General, Dorothy Lightbourne, and representatives of the Financial Services Commission, in order to come up with some clear recommendations and guidelines on a way forward to address the...

Prime Minister, Hon Bruce Golding has written to Opposition Leader, Portia Simpson- Miller, requesting that a fixed schedule for the resumed bi-partisan meetings be established. In a letter welcoming the Opposition Leader's decision announced yesterday to resume the discussions, Prime Minister Golding said he is of the view that much can be achieved through bilateral collaboration undertaken in good faith....