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The Honourable Olivia "Babsy" Grange, Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports has released the names of the new Board members of the Social Development Commission (SDC) following the approval of the appointments by the Cabinet. The new SDC Board is made up of:1. Mr. Lloyd Pommells Chairman2. The Reverend Mr. Al Miller3. Mrs. Joan Parris-Woodstock4. Mrs. Sonia Christie5. Mrs....

Jamaica Enterprise Network United Kingdom (JEN-UK), a new initiative to support and encourage business development and wealth creation within the Jamaican community in the UK, was launched on Thursday (Nov. 16) at the Jamaican High Commission in London. More than 80 interested persons attended the official launch of JEN-UK, which seeks to empower Jamaicans to build efficient, sustainable and successful...

Sports Minister, Hon. Olivia 'Babsy' Grange has sent congratulations to Jamaica's Sunshine Girls Netball Team for bringing home the bronze medal in the New World Netball World Championships in Auckland, New Zealand today (Nov 17) Jamaica came out the winner over England, 53-52 in with what has been described as a combination of flair and clever playmaking skills, to cement...

Prime Minister Hon Bruce Golding has called on human resources managers, consultants and trainers to look at challenges that confront them in this fast changing world, but especially the challenge that will confront them in their professional capacities and try to reach some consensus of how those challenges will be met and which is the way forward. He told them...

A new police station has been opened in Sligoville, which will benefit some 10,000 residents of 20 communities in Eastern St. Catherine. The new police station, which was officially opened on Wednesday (Nov. 14) by Minister of National Security, Derrick Smith, replaces the one destroyed by Hurricane Ivan in 2004. It is situated on the complex of the recently opened...

The government has awarded a contract valued at more than $69 million to Brighton Engineers for the construction of the Bath Police Station in St. Thomas.The new facility will replace the station, which was severely damaged during Hurricane Gilbert in 1988 and since then, police personnel have been working under adverse conditions. Minister of National Security, Derrick Smith and Managing...

Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sport, Olivia Grange, has called on women to break the silence surrounding incest and carnal abuse, which plague both girls and boys in the society. She noted that the men, who commit these crimes "are effectively linked to us women as spouses, sons, brothers, uncles and relatives and as women in the society, if...

Prime Minister Hon Bruce Golding says that if Jamaica is to keep pace with the competition on a global level, the productivity level of the Jamaican labour force will have to be moved further up the scale. In light of this he has already approached the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) to provide an annual index as to the productivity...

Prime Minister Hon. Bruce Golding has called for an investigation into the dismissal of Mr. Michael Bennett, the caretaker for Independence Park which is controlled by the St Elizabeth parish Council. In a statement issued yesterday evening (Nov 17) Prime Minister Golding said he had requested the Director General in the Local Government Division of the Office of the Prime...

November 29 is the day that the military, police and election day workers will be allowed to vote in the local government election, which Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, has called for December 5. The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) is encouraging all members of the security forces, whose names are not on the current voters list, to contact the office...

The Ministry of Agriculture in collaboration with the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), will be undertaking a study to examine the contribution of the agricultural sector to the economy. "According to the official data, agriculture contributes six per cent to the country's gross domestic product (GDP). Even though the sector engages over 200,000 Jamaicans, if it is examined...

The Ministry of Health and Environment is devising a quality agenda to improve the delivery of service in the health sector. Chief Medical Officer in the Ministry, Dr. Sheila Campbell-Forrester, speaking at a recent meeting involving Ministry officials and hospital administrators and senior medical personnel at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston, disclosed that a committee, comprising representatives from the...