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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...

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...