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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...

Director of the Epidemiology Unit at the University Hospital of the West Indies, Professor Rainford Wilks has said that cardiovascular diseases such as heart attacks, stroke, diabetes and hypertension are the leading cause of death among Jamaicans. Professor Wilks who was speaking at the Heart Foundation of Jamaica's launch of Heart Month on January 31 said that "deaths from cardiovascular...

The Government has given an undertaking to take over all debts of the Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ), to allow the company to strive for profitability with its new thrust on efficiency, improved farming practices and improved production. Chairman of the SCJ, Robert Levy made the announcement at a luncheon on the grounds of the Frome Sugar Factory in Westmoreland...

As part of a planned islandwide tour of businesses in the productive sector, Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Honourable Professor Kenneth Hall toured the Frome Sugar factory and estate in Westmoreland on January 31. Accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Rheima Hall; Minister of Agriculture and Lands, Roger Clarke; Custos of Westmoreland, Owen Sinclair; and Chairman of the Sugar Company of...

Some 500 people are expected to benefit from a series of customer service seminars, which will be facilitated by the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo), as part of its preparedness programme for the country's staging of ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007. The seminars entitled, 'Bowl Them Over for Business, Catch the Team Spirit', will be held between February 7...

The relative calm of the Mannings High School campus in Westmoreland was yesterday (Jan. 31) interrupted by the blare of police sirens and scurry of activity by emergency personnel, as the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) carried out an earthquake simulation exercise on the school grounds. The exercise, which involved more than 2,000 teachers and students from...

Within minutes of the first tremor, screams for help rise from beneath the debris of the collapsed concrete structure, forcing their way into a smoke-blanketed atmosphere. An earthquake, measuring nine on the Richter Scale, with its epicentre in Buff Bay, Portland, had occurred at around 10:10 a.m. Ten minutes later, two fire units and a contingent from the Jamaica Constabulary...

Director of the Epidemiology Unit at the University Hospital of the West Indies, Professor Rainford Wilks has said that cardiovascular diseases such as heart attacks, stroke, diabetes and hypertension are the leading cause of death among Jamaicans. Professor Wilks who was speaking at the Heart Foundation of Jamaica's launch of Heart Month on January 31 said that "deaths from cardiovascular...

The Government has given an undertaking to take over all debts of the Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ), to allow the company to strive for profitability with its new thrust on efficiency, improved farming practices and improved production. Chairman of the SCJ, Robert Levy made the announcement at a luncheon on the grounds of the Frome Sugar Factory in Westmoreland...