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Deliberations on the Proceeds of Crime Bill will resume in the Houses of Parliament in September, with the aim of passing the legislation by the end of year, said Minister of National Security, Dr. Peter Phillips. Dr. Phillips, who was speaking to journalists at his Oxford Road offices in Kingston recently, informed that the Bill was before a Joint Select...

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Derrick Kellier, is urging more needy Jamaicans to register with the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), the government's main social assistance programme. Persons in need can receive health care benefits and needed assistance with schools fees and other financial support through this programme. Speaking yesterday (August 25), at the Cambridge High...

The Ministry of Education and Youth has allocated $15 million to the Inner City Programme for the new academic year, which begins in September. Deputy Chief Education Officer at the Ministry, Jasper Lawrence, told JIS News that the money would be spent to provide in service training for guidance counsellors, teachers and principals and to assist in providing any additional...

The training and certification of a nation's workforce is necessary in order for it to compete in the global world. Hence, the HEART Trust /National Training Agency (HEART Trust/ NTA), is facilitating access to training, competence assessment and certification to all working age Jamaicans. "Our main function and role is to prepare the Jamaican workforce to compete in a globalized...

The Ministry of Health's 'Teens are Terrific' Summer Camp is taking teenagers to a whole new level. This is the view widely expressed by teenagers and youth programme Co-ordinators from the six inner-city communities in the Corporate Area, who participated in this year's one-week event. "We are especially proud of our young men," says Director, Health Promotion and Education in...

Manchester and St. Elizabeth are preparing for any possible fall out, particularly flooding, that might occur with the passage of Hurricane Ernesto to the north east of the country later today. As part of the preparations, Emergency Operation Centres are now up and running at two locations in Mandeville, at the chambers of the Manchester Parish Council and over in...

State Minister in the Ministry of Housing, Transport, Water and Works, Richard Azan, has said that flood mitigation work in the Nightingale Grove community near Old Harbour in St. Catherine, would begin immediately using technical personnel within the Ministry. This, the State Minister said, would result in significant savings in the cost of the project. The Nightingale Grove area is...

JHNT Updates Blenheim Residents About Project to Representatives of the Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT) met with residents of Blenheim and surrounding communities in Hanover on Thursday, (Aug. 24), to provide them with details of the $2.1 million project to reconstruct the birth home of National Hero, Sir Alexander Bustamante. The house, which is a national heritage site, was destroyed...

The National Meteorological Service has advised the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) that a hurricane watch is ineffect for Jamaica as Tropical Storm Ernesto has developed into a Categorary 1 hurricane as it approaches the East Coast of Jamaica. This means that hurricane Ernesto could begin to pose a significant threat to persons on the Eastern and...

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) is reminding persons that the island is still under a Tropical Storm Warning and Hurricane Watch and that as Hurricane Ernesto continues to move over the waters east of the island, all parishes could be affected and in particular the parishes of St. Thomas, St. Mary, St. Ann, Trelawny and St....

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) wishes to advise that the Tropical Storm Warning and Hurricane Watch have been continued for Jamaica. The Meteorological Service has reported that while Ernesto has been downgraded to tropical storm status, it is still possible that it could regain hurricane strength in the next 24 hours. As a result the National...

The National Meteorological Service has advised the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) that the Tropical Storm Warning remains in effect for Jamaica. Although the eye of the Hurricane will not pass directly over the island, hurricane force winds could affect Northern parishes and the entire country will get heavy rainfall. The public is being reminded that if...