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Cabinet has approved a proposal for the establishment of a 24-hour toll free hotline, for the reporting of cases of child abuse. The three-digit emergency number, 211, will be available seven days per week. Making the announcement at yesterday's (Nov. 12) post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House, Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, Olivia Grange, explained that the service,...

Cabinet has given approval for the issuing of instructions to the Chief Parliamentary Counsel (CPC) to effect amendments to the Financial Administration and Audit (FAA) Act, to include monetary penalties in the procurement regulations. Speaking at the weekly post-Cabinet press briefing held yesterday (Nov. 12) at Jamaica House, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, Faith...

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Karl Samuda, has said that he will be working with private sector groups to focus on the training of workers at all levels within the workplace. "We adapt so easily, we are the most easily trained people in the world. That is why the Government, working with the private sector, will be focusing so...

Jamaican national, Barrington A. Russell, Sr., was sworn in as Mayor of the City of Lauderdale Lakes, in the United States of America (USA), in a brief ceremony on November 10, after being successful at the polls on Election Day, November 4. Mayor Russell succeeds former Mayor, Samuel Brown, also a Jamaican national, who retired, having served in that position...

The Honorable Olivia "Babsy" Grange, Minister of Information Culture, Youth and Sports, says that her Ministry is fully aware of the importance of rewarding the young people of Jamaica for their initiatives and innovative programmes to empower themselves to become "well rounded progressive citizens of their country." Minister Grange said her Ministry had ensured that all functioning registered community youth...

The Clarendon police is reaping some success in its efforts to foster more harmonious relations between police and citizens of the parish. Deputy Superintendent of Police attached to the May Pen Police Station, Marcia Reid, told JIS News that the police has been working closely with the various community groups to arrive at solutions to some of the problems that...

Assistant Chief Education Officer, in the Guidance and Counselling Unit of the Ministry of Education, Mary Nichols, is urging mothers to encourage fathers to join the Parent Teachers Association (PTA) and be more active in their children's lives. "I want to say to the fathers that your child needs you now even more than the mothers because we carried them....

Jamaica's rich and diverse culinary heritage was on show at the 2008 Commonwealth Fair, which was held last weekend at the Kensington Town Hall in London. The Jamaican booth at the event, which was mounted by staff and friends of the High Commission in London, was among the most popular, with scores of patrons stopping by and purchasing the range...

The Government of Jamaica, is currently negotiating financing for the construction of the Kingston and St. Andrew Water Improvement Project, which will, on completion, improve water supply to residents in the Corporate Area and its environs. This is according to Minister of Water and Housing, Dr. Horace Chang, who was addressing a JIS 'Think Tank' at 58A Half Way Tree...

Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, is serious about education. He reiterated his position in Parliament yesterday, when he defended his position on Government's purchase of property at Ferry, which houses the Hydel Group of Schools, preventing the demise of the institution which provides education for over 1,200 children. He is so serious about the future education of the next generation that...

The Government of Jamaica has secured an emergency liquidity line of credit from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which will be made available to the commercial banks for on-lending to the productive sectors, where lines of credit have been cancelled. Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Senator Don Wehby, said that the Government had...

A book bank has been established in the Poor Relief Department of the St. James Parish Council, through which primary and secondary school students can access text books and other relevant reading material. The facility, which is a project of the 2007/2008 Junior Council, was officially launched in the Council Chamber, located in Montego Bay yesterday (Nov. 11). Giving an...