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Thirty-two small poultry farmers from various communities in Clarendon have completed a training course to empower them with skills to start income generating projects in their communities. The group, consisting of 28 women and four men, now known as the Clarendon Association of Small Poultry Growers graduated from the course on June 19 at the Denbigh Show Ground in May...

The Jamaica Red Cross has launched Club 25, a blood donation programme, which will target the youth as well as organizations geared towards them. The programme is also designed for young people to learn about healthy lifestyles and share what they have learnt with their community. "It will also involve nutrition, sexual reproductive health education and it will involve abstinence...

The Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay has secured funding for upgrading projects and acquiring medical equipment, including $15 million from the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund for electro-surgical units, orthopaedic drills and a C-Arm Unit. This information is contained in a Ministry Paper tabled in the House of Representatives recently by Minister of Health, Horace Dalley....

The Bustamante Hospital for Children has benefited from expansion in health care services, specifically cardiac and orthopaedic services. This information was disclosed in a Ministry Paper tabled in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (June 19) by Minister of Health, Horace Dalley. Expansion in orthopaedic services includes the introduction of pedicle screw instrumentation in scoliosis surgery, through partnership with the...

The St. James Parish Council, in collaboration with the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), has completed training sessions in basic first aid (theory and practical) for some 40 shelter managers in that parish. This is part of ongoing efforts to get the parish's emergency machinery in peak condition for the present hurricane season. The shelter managers were...

The Ministry of Health will be embarking on an "intense epidemiological and entomological thrust" to break the chain of transmission of malaria and move the country closer to elimination of the disease. As contained in a Ministry Paper tabled in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (June 19) by Health Minister, Horace Dalley "the Ministry is hopeful that countries that...

The Micro Investment Development Agency (MIDA) has disbursed $1.71 billion in funding to approximately 23,000 micro businesses since its inception in 1991. Board Chairman of MIDA, Anthony Freckleton, speaking at the agency's 15th anniversary celebration held yesterday (June 20) at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston, highlighted the work on the organization in the growth of the country's micro business...

The community of Cambridge in St. James should have a new police station and courthouse in another eight months, as a $57 million contract was signed yesterday (June 20) for the construction of a complex to house the facilities. The contract, which is being undertaken through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Ministries of Justice and National Security, was...

Minister of Housing, Transport, Water and Works, Robert Pickersgill, on Tuesday (June 19) officially opened the $40 million Banbury Bridge in St. Catherine, which links the bustling commercial town of Linstead with adjoining farming communities. The 43-metre long bridge, constructed of high-grade rust resistant 'Corten' plate steel, which is guaranteed to last at least 100 years with minimal maintenance, facilitates...

Cocoa growers will receive a $200 per box increase in the price paid to them by the Cocoa Industry Board, effective October this year, moving the price from $1,000 to $1,200 per box. This was announced by Minister of Agriculture and Lands, Roger Clarke during his address to cocoa farmers at the 12th Annual General Meeting of the St. Catherine...

The Ministry of Education and Youth has allocated more than $25 million to 23 primary, all-age and high schools under the Inner City Schools Improvement Programme (ISIP), since its inception some four years ago. The programme, which was established in 2003, is targeted at schools located in the inner-city communities of Kingston, Spanish Town and Montego Bay. Speaking in an...

Investors who received an extended deadline and who have pre-qualified to bid on the five state-owned sugar factories, will know their status by June 29 as government moves to wrap up the divestment process. Executive Chairman of the Sugar Industry Authority (SIA), Ambassador Derick Heaven, tells JIS News that the deadline, which was extended from March, was to accommodate late...