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Some 250 residents of Hope Pastures and Vineyard Town, in Kingston, were presented with fruit trees on November 29, as part of the country's Food Security Programme. Launched as the Residential Fruit Tree Project, it aims to distribute approximately two million fruit trees to households, schools and public entities, free of cost, over the next three years. After symbolically planting...

The acclaimed University Singers, takes its outstanding repertoire of music to New York this month, with one performance at the Brooklyn College on Saturday, December 13, at 8:00 p.m. The group will open the holiday portion of the 2008-2009 season of the Brooklyn Centre for the Performing Arts (BCPA), with a performance titled 'Christmas in the Caribbean'. The concert is...

Minister of Education, Andrew Holness, has called on teachers to exercise the highest standards of moral leadership in the classroom. The Minister, who was the guest speaker at the 2008 graduation exercise of the Bethlehem Moravian College held on November 29 at the college campus in St. Elizabeth, argued that poor moral leadership in the classroom is reflected in the...

Twenty-eight (28) young Jamaicans were on Sunday (Nov. 30) honoured for outstanding performance in various fields, at the Prime Minister's Youth Awards for Excellence, held at Emancipation Park in Kingston. Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, Olivia Grange, in congratulating the awardees and nominees, urged them to be proud of their accomplishments and to remain steadfast in their commitment...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding, has called for a full report from the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), on the contracts issued by the bus company and which are being queried by the Contractor General. The Prime Minister has directed the Minister of Transport and Works, Mike Henry to summon the Board of the JUTC, to meet and prepare the report....

Prime Minister Bruce Golding, says that despite the successes of the HIV/AIDS awareness campaign, the disease continues to be a major stress to Jamaica. Over the last 15-years, Jamaica has lost an average of 460-persons each year to HIV/AIDS and last year, 320 lives were lost. This Mr. Golding said, indicated that the country is moving in the right direction...

Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports Hon Olivia Grange is to lobby her Caribbean political counterparts in an attempt to secure recognition of the creative industries as a key ingredient for sustained economic growth throughout the region. Speaking at a luncheon hosted by the Commonwealth Secretariat during the recent Creative Clusters conference in Glasgow, Scotland, Minister Grange told Caribbean...

State Minister in the Ministry of Industry, Investment, and Commerce, Michael Stern, has urged young Jamaicans to capitalise on the current global economic recession, and empower themselves by becoming entrepreneurs. He was speaking at a small business development expo held at the Dorritt Bent Hall in Spaldings, Clarendon, on November 27. "We have young people who can't find a job,...

Public Relations Officer for the Ministry of Education's Region Six, Yvette Dennis, has urged parents to become actively involved in their children's lives, in order to promote optimal development, and academic excellence. Speaking at a Community Parent Teachers Association Meeting hosted by the Green Park Primary and Junior High School in Old Harbour, St. Catherine, recently, Ms. Dennis disclosed that...

More than 60 representatives from insurance regulatory bodies in 19 countries of the region, are currently in the island participating in a five-day Workshop and Conference, aimed at further strengthening insurance regulations in the Caribbean. The event is being held at the Rosehall Resort and Spa, in Montego Bay, St. James, from December 1 to 5, under the theme -...

The Social Development Commission (SDC), partnering with several key stakeholders, staged a successful public symposium and workshop in Linstead, St. Catherine last week, under the theme "Communities: Protecting Children, Protecting Our Future." Arising out of the workshop, a Community Child Protection Committee was formed which, through an action plan, will deal with the issues facing children who were identified during...

Effective today (Dec. 1), the Bank of Jamaica has increased the rates of interest applicable to Certificates of Deposit (CD), in order to dampen high foreign exchange demand and calm the instability in the local financial market. The new rate are as follows: 30-day up to 17 per cent from 14 pr cent; 60-day is 17.50 per cent up from...