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Governor General His Excellency, the Most Hon. Professor Kenneth Hall has emphasized that significant social transformation would require the pursuit of excellence in all of the country's endeavours. The Governor General was speaking at St. Gabriel's Anglican Church Hall on Thursday (May 4) where he met with the Custos R. James deRoux, Mayor of May Pen, Councillor Milton Brown, Members...

Retired teachers of the Cross Primary and Junior High School in Clarendon, Myrtle Roye, Daphne Lawrence, and Hortense Cunningham have been honoured for their outstanding contribution to the education field. At a ceremony, which was held last week at the St. Gabriel's Anglican Church Hall in the parish, former Minister of Information Senator Burchell Whiteman who was guest speaker at...

Opposition Leader, Bruce Golding has suggested that the government give serious consideration to aggressively promoting Jamaica as an attractive destination for high-end, high value-added tourists. Mr. Golding, who was making his contribution to the 2006/2007 Budget Debate in Gordon House yesterday (May 4), said the island should look to targeting wealthy tourists such as those "who travel in private jets...

The museum of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), Up Park Camp, is to receive an important addition to its collection as a result of the kindness of former Royal Navy man, Hugh Campbell, who has donated a Tampion from the HMS Jamaica. Mr. Campbell handed over the gift to Deputy High Commissioner, Sharon Saunders on Wednesday, May 3, at the...

Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Carlton Davis, has said improvements in services offered by the public sector were being driven by the current wave of globalisation and fiscal austerity. Dr. Davis, who was speaking at the public sector customer service competition awards ceremony held on May 2 at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, noted that the modern day Jamaican was demanding high quality...

Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Professor Kenneth Hall, has said that the country's young people must be productively engaged, with their talents channelled into service to their communities and the nation. Professor Hall, who was addressing a meeting of community leaders in Portland at the Ken Wright Pier in Port Antonio recently, pointed out that the "knowledge within the...

Governor-General, His Excellency, the Most Hon. Professor Kenneth Hall, has urged Jamaicans to strive for excellence in all areas of endeavour. "Let the pursuit of excellence be integral to your lives. Nurture it and allow it to blossom to the fullness of human capacity", Professor Hall said, as he addressed a civic function at the Grand Invercauld Hotel in Black...

The committee, which was set up during the last parliamentary year to consider the Charter of Rights and Freedoms Bill, has been reconstituted. National Security Minister and Leader of Government Business in the House, Dr. Peter Phillips, who on Wednesday (May 3) brought the motion to the house calling for the committee to be reformed, explained that for the group...

Agriculture and Land Minister, Roger Clarke, has said that despite the ever increasing competition in the international market, the intervention of the European Union (EU) banana support programme has, over the past decade, assisted the country with maintaining its level of banana export earnings. This, he said, has enabled banana exports to be the fourth largest foreign exchange earner for...

The St. Thomas business sector is being urged to increase production, as part of the national thrust to boost exports to meet development goals. Assistant Director for Foreign Trade in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Allison Stone, in her address at a trade sensitisation forum held recently at the Morant Villas Hotel, noted that "foreign trade offered...

Opposition Leader, Bruce Golding, has suggested that the government increase the tax-free threshold for pensioners to $1 million per annum from $283,440, in light of the economic demands, with which they were faced. Delivering his presentation in the 2006/2007 Budget Debate at Gordon House, yesterday (May 4) Mr. Golding said pensioners "have the same needs that all of us have...

With this year's Labour Day focus directed at the beautification of town centres and community spaces, the Westmoreland Parish Council has decided to give a comprehensive face-lift to Norman Square and the Guy Ottey Park in Savanna-la-Mar, as the parish project. Labour Day will be observed on Tuesday, May 23, under the theme: 'Preserving Jamaica's beauty is our duty'.Co-chairman of...