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The year 2004 was celebrated as International Year of the Family, and the Kiwanis Club of New Kingston chose as its Major Project a child abuse awareness campaign titled: "The Rights and Responsibilities of the Child" with the slogan 'Protect our Children, Treat them Right'. This presentation of our music video and CD today is being made to the Honourable...

Many American citizens living in Washington, D.C. and surrounding areas took the opportunity to apply for their U.S. passports at the morning coffee break session hosted by the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB), at Union Station in downtown Washington on Wednesday, November 15. The coffee break, which began at 6:00 a.m. and ended at 10:00 a.m., caught commuters in rush hour...

The Sugar Workers Housing programme moved a step further towards achieving its objective of providing housing solutions for over 3000 workers in the sugar industry, when over 400 letters of possession for service lots were presented to workers at Bernard Lodge in St. Catherine on Thursday (Nov. 16). In delivering the keynote address at the handing over ceremony, Prime Minister...

The National Youth Service (NYS) has received an injection of $1 million from Telecommunications provider Digicel to assist in the sustainability of its Corps Programme, offered to young people aged 17 to 24. The sum, presented at the launch of NYS Day yesterday (Nov.15) at the Liguanea Club in New Kingston, represented the final payment of $3 million, which Digicel...

The Social Development Commission (SDC) has dismissed reports that persons living and working in the vicinity of Sabina Park will require accreditation to move in and around the area during the ICC Cricket World Cup next year. According to Lorian Peart, Special Projects Officer attached to Region 1 of the SDC, this was not the case as, accreditation would only...

Minister of Industry, Technology, Energy and Commerce, Hon. Phillip Paulwell has said that the Government was moving to increase public access to reasonably-priced computers. The Minister, who was piloting the Electronic Transactions Bill in the House of Representatives yesterday (Nov.14), acknowledged that the price of computers had put the technology out of the reach of ordinary Jamaicans, but "there is...

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Geonet Technology Services, Garfield Knight has said that local partnerships in the use of Geographic Information System (GIS), were very important if Jamaica was to successfully compete with countries, which were now using this technology to drive their economies. Mr. Knight, who was speaking yesterday (Nov. 14) at a Kiwanis Club of Kingston luncheon at...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Lands is developing a Heifer Rescue Programme to prevent the slaughter of heifers and as such, increase the stock of animals available to the beef industry. Minister of Agriculture and Lands, Hon. Roger Clarke, who made the announcement at the annual Minnard Livestock and Beef Festival in St. Ann recently, said that farmers could not...

The National Works Agency (NWA) will be implementing a one-way rotary system for motorists in Port Maria, in order to improve the flow of traffic in that town. The NWA's Senior Communications Officer, Collin Morrison, told JIS News that the system would be put in place on the completion of a new bridge, which is being constructed simultaneously with major...

Minister of Agriculture and Lands, Roger Clarke, has reassured farmers that the receipt book system is not a means of taxation being levied on them by the Government. Clarifying this perception in an interview with JIS News, Minister Clarke pointed out that the receipt book would be used as a means of protecting farmers. "If they are not willing to...

Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Dr. Wesley Hughes, has said that the economy grew by some 2.7 per cent for the period July to September 2006, relative to the corresponding period last year. The growth, he said, took place against the background of relative stability in the exchange rate market, with inflation being at 2.4 per...

Hocking College in the United States has established four scholarships in honour of Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller. The announcement was made by Dr. John Light, President of Hocking College, who paid a courtesy call on the Prime Minister at Jamaica House on Wednesday (Nov. 15). Mrs. Simpson Miller expressed gratitude for the scholarships and said she looked forward to...