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The Development Bank of Jamaica Limited is pleased to announce a special emergency loan fund of J$100 million to assist farmers who were affected by the recent passage of Hurricane Dean. Milverton Reynolds, Managing Director of the Development Bank of Jamaica Limited (DBJ) in making the announcement states, "Jamaica's agricultural sector is of vital importance to the economy and being...

Twenty two high school students, who are children of employees of Sandals Hotels across Jamaica, have been awarded scholarships worth an estimated $550,000. The scholarships were made available through Sandals and Beaches Hotels, at the 12th Annual Community Scholarship Awards presentation, held at Sandals Montego Bay Hotel on (August 29). Each recipient of a scholarship received approximately $25,000 to assist...

The Governor-General, His Excellency, the Most Hon. Professor Kenneth Hall, is pleased to announce the appointment of Public Defender, Windsor Earl Witter and Deputy Solicitor General, Patrick Windsor Foster, as Queen's Counsels (QC) with effect from August 27, 2007. The appointments are on the recommendation of Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller.

Hundreds of residents from the community of Flankers in St. James are to benefit from a $500,000 donation from Sandals Resort International, which will be used to effect repairs to the basic school and the health centre. These community facilities received extensive damage to their roofs by heavy winds associated with Hurricane Dean, which devastated sections of the island on...

The Ministry of Agriculture has earmarked $20 million in grant funding to help get farmers engaged in the use of greenhouse technology back on their feet, after the devastation caused by Hurricane Dean. "This will be to a maximum of $800,000 per farmer and will be made on the condition that recipients observe the recommended criteria for reconstruction," Agriculture Minister,...

Ambassador to the United States (US), Professor Gordon Shirley and Consul General to New York, Dr. Basil K. Bryan, are among a distinguished group of professionals, who were recently honoured by the New York-based Mavis & Ephraim Hawthorne Golden Krust Foundation, for their work in the fields of education, justice, entertainment, government and business. At an awards banquet held recently...

The Ministry of Health will continue to be vigilant against disease outbreak in the post-hurricane period, as it mobilizes its health teams to educate the public on sanitary practices and food safety issues, and conduct vector control interventions. Ministry of Health emergency team representative, Dr. Irving McKenzie, has said that the health authorities were paying keen attention to areas like...

The Portland Health Department has been working assiduously to minimise environmental health risks in the parish, following the passage of Hurricane Dean on August 19. Lorenzo Humes, Public Health Inspector for the Portland Health Department, told JIS News that several measures have been implemented in pursuit of that objective. He said the measures include a vector control programme to prevent...

My fellow Jamaicans. I wish again to offer my condolences to those of you who lost loved ones as a result of hurricane Dean. I express our deepest sympathies to the families of JPSCo workers who died, while trying to restore electricity. We grieve with you. Let us remember how God has spared us from the full strength of this...

Just two Sundays ago, the powerful category four storm Hurricane Dean, lashed the island leaving four persons dead in its wake and several others homeless. As people try desperately to get their lives back to normal following the onslaught of the hurricane, several Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have stepped in to assist in the recovery process. One such group is United...

Retaining the services of a lawyer can be a significant burden for some persons, particularly in instances where cases extend for months and even years. It was in an effort to assist such persons that a group of lawyers came together and founded the Kingston Legal Aid Clinic in 1971. Originally created to provide legal representation for the very poor,...

The Cornwall Regional Hospital in St. James now has a new state-of-the-art 40-slice Computerized Tomography CT) scanner and a digital fluoroscopy machine, which were acquired by the Ministry of Health at a cost of US$1.5 million. The machines, which form part of a US$10 million project to comprehensively enhance radiography and radiographic services in the public health sector, has equipped...