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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...

I would like to congratulate all the volunteers at the national, parish and local levels for the thought and time you have already invested in planning Labour Day 2006. On behalf of the government and people of Jamaica, I say a big thank you to those private sector entities with a keen sense of corporate social responsibility. You know we...

Health Minister, Horace Dalley has expressed concern that backyard poultry farmers could be more vulnerable to Avian Influenza should the island become affected by the infectious bird disease. "At this point in time the government is concerned about the backyard farmers whose birds are not necessarily enclosed and therefore are significantly exposed to the possibility of contracting this disease should...

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Land, Donovan Stanberry, has pointed out that the government's Land Administration and Management Programme (LAMP), represented a key strategy through which the land titling process was being improved. He explained that under the Special Provisions Act that was passed in the Houses of Parliament, "the Land Minister has the power to declare...

Land and Agriculture Minister, Roger Clarke, has said that the Ministry would be moving to "rapidly and significantly increase the pace at which new parcels of land are brought under registration". To this end, he informed that the Ministry and the National Land Agency (NLA) "are finalizing arrangements to undertake a diagnostic look at the entire land titling process with...