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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...

As of January 2009, Jamaica Producers (JP) Tropical Foods, will produce 50,000 packets of cassava chips weekly for the local market. The food snack is now available in barbeque and lightly salted flavours, but more flavours will be introduced and more packets produced, said Chairman of JP Tropical Foods, Charles Johnston. He was speaking at the official launch of JP...

Persons are being encouraged to be good neighbours by joining community organisations, in order to know who lives next to them, and also as a means of security for themselves and the wider community. Speaking at a function hosted by the Social Development Commission (SDC), at the Ridgemount United Church in Mandeville, Manchester, on November 26, to honour 23 community...

Commissioner of Police, Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, has urged citizens to play a more active role in maintaining the professionalism of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), and rooting out indiscipline. He was speaking at a function held on the premises of the May Pen Police Station in Clarendon, recently, where Alcoa Foundation, through Jamalco, presented the JCF with approximately $5.5...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding, has urged young people to be assertive, claim their space and not to be intimidated by the generation gap. He noted that there was a time when young people were expected to be seen and not heard but times have changed. "The future does not belong to my generation. We are runners in a relay and...

The New Green Primary School in Manchester has won the first round of the Windalco Fourth Annual Safety Quiz Competition. The competition, which saw eight primary schools in Manchester participating began on November 24 at the Kendal Conference Centre, where New Green Primary came out the winners in the first round. Coordinator for the New Green team, Ivarine Johnson-Manzalin, told...

The Social Development Commission (SDC) in St. Elizabeth is working in partnership with the police to keep communities safe, and expand trust and good relations between the security forces and the citizens in the parish. During an address at a recent St. Elizabeth Homecoming Foundation crime forum held at the Black River HEART Trust/NTA Academy, Regional Director of the SDC,...

Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Christopher Tufton, has assured that the Government will be doing a lot more to enable farmers to produce more efficiently and to compete more effectively in the global market. Addressing the official launch of the Jamaica Producers Tropical Foods - a division of Jamaica Producers Group, at the St. Mary Banana Estates in Annotto Bay, St....

Hundreds of students from secondary and tertiary institutions across Western Jamaica participated in a two-day information fair hosted by the University of the West Indies (UWI) at its Western Jamaica Campus, in Montego Bay from November 27 to 28. According to Assistant Registrar in the admissions section at the UWI Mona Campus, Marjorie Bolero-Haughton, the fair was aimed at bringing...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding and the Head of the European Commission Delegation, Ambassador Marco Mazzocchi-Alemanni, this afternoon signed the disbursement of J$365-million (€ 3.69m), for the second installment of the fixed tranche of the 2007 sector budget support programme, for assistance to the sugar industry. The signing took place at Jamaica House. Jamaica will be receiving approximately J$9-billion for the...

Judge Joe Brown, the non-traditional presiding judge of the syndicated reality American courtroom TV show, Judge Joe Brown, has given a commitment to work with the Government of Jamaica in developing programmes to help re-socialise and motivate young people, especially young men. Judge Joe Brown gave his commitment when he paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Bruce Golding, at...