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Government Senator Norman Grant, has called for the creation of a national crop insurance scheme/disaster relieve fun, which would be supported from the Consolidated Fund. "There is a need to have a structural mechanism to provide the agricultural sector with a rapid response where there is a disaster of any kind. The sector is too vital to the development of...

Government Senator Norman Grant, has called for the creation of a national crop insurance scheme/disaster relieve fun, which would be supported from the Consolidated Fund. "There is a need to have a structural mechanism to provide the agricultural sector with a rapid response where there is a disaster of any kind. The sector is too vital to the development of...

National Security Minister, Dr. Peter Phillips has emphasised that the increased security measures to tackle crime in Montego Bay, St. James, would not affect that city's tourism product. "There is right now a very significant police presence in Montego Bay. It is not going to affect the tourism product at all; in fact it will enhance its safety and security....

National Security Minister, Dr. Peter Phillips has emphasised that the increased security measures to tackle crime in Montego Bay, St. James, would not affect that city's tourism product. "There is right now a very significant police presence in Montego Bay. It is not going to affect the tourism product at all; in fact it will enhance its safety and security....

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller said Jamaica was on target toward achieving universal access to secondary education with the addition of 15,000 new secondary school spaces during the past year. She said eight new high schools are scheduled for completion this year and which will add another 8,685 school spaces at the secondary level. Mrs. Simpson Miller was speaking on...

Commissioner of Police, Lucius Thomas is encouraging citizens to play their part in helping to rid the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) of corrupt members by reporting incidence of police corruption. According to Mr. Thomas, one of the problems in dealing with corrupt members had to do with the inability of the Commissioner to terminate the services of members of the...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is seeking to procure an Automated Licence Plate Reading System, to assist in identifying stolen motor vehicles as well as those used to commit crimes. Commissioner of Police Lucius Thomas, who made the announcement at a press conference held recently at the Police Officers' Club on Hope Road in Kingston, said that the acquisition of...

Ontario's Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Mike Colle, has presented Cdn$250,000 (J$13.7 million) to Harbourfront Centre in downtown Toronto, Canada, to create 'Miss Lou's Room', in memory of the late Jamaican folklorist, Hon. Louise Bennett-Coverley. Making his presentation inside 'Miss Lou's Room' on Wednesday, January 31, at the launch of Black History Month in Ontario and six months after the...

The contribution of the overseas medical community to Jamaica will be the main topic for discussion at the Jamaica Diaspora Health Sector (Northeast United States) meeting scheduled for February 22 at the Jamaican Consulate in New York. The meeting, the first of two for the year, will engage stakeholders in discussion on how the overseas community can meet the health...

Some 307 young people have been trained as teachers' aides, having successfully completed the National Youth Service's (NYS) four-week Early Childhood Education Corps programme. At a graduation exercise held yesterday (Feb. 1) at the Knox Cobbla campus in Manchester, the trainees, from the island's 14 parishes, were awarded with certificates, which would allow them to assist teachers in early childhood...

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller said Jamaica was on target toward achieving universal access to secondary education with the addition of 15,000 new secondary school spaces during the past year. She said eight new high schools are scheduled for completion this year and which will add another 8,685 school spaces at the secondary level. Mrs. Simpson Miller was speaking on...

Commissioner of Police, Lucius Thomas is encouraging citizens to play their part in helping to rid the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) of corrupt members by reporting incidence of police corruption. According to Mr. Thomas, one of the problems in dealing with corrupt members had to do with the inability of the Commissioner to terminate the services of members of the...