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Fifteen Jamaican entrepreneurs, community leaders and public officials in South Florida will be honoured at the first annual Recognition and Installation luncheon of the JA-USA Chamber of Commerce, to be held on Friday, March 24 at the Sheraton Hotel in Davie. The recipients will be recognized for their positive contribution to the Jamaican Diaspora and the USA marketplace, according to...

Jamaica Product Exchange (JAPEX) 2006, the tourism industry's premier marketing event, will be staged in the resort town of Negril from April 23 to 25. The event, which is organized annually by the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) in collaboration with the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB), brings to the island the major players in the sector including tour operators,...

Cabinet yesterday (March 20) gave the go-ahead for the establishment of the Spanish Town Redevelopment Company (SPARCOM) to manage the redevelopment of the old capital and its environs. Information Minister, Senator Burchell Whiteman, who made the disclosure at the post Cabinet press briefing held at Jamaica House, said that the work to be done by the entity, which would be...

A sum of $807,000 has been paid out by the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), through the St. Ann Parish Council, to offset living expenses for flood victims in the Moneague lake area. A Response Committee meeting was held recently at the Parish Council offices, where cheques were presented to 21 landlords who have been accommodating dislocated...

High Commissioner to London, Gail Mathurin, has called for the development of trade, education and cultural ties between Jamaica and the city of Manchester in England. Ms. Mathurin made the call during recent meetings with representatives of Manchester, when she visited Jamaican communities in the northern city. During her visit, she paid a courtesy call on the Deputy Lord Mayor...

Prime Minister P. J. Patterson has lauded the National Housing Trust (NHT) for 30 years of quality service to Jamaica and has urged the institution to continue to be bold in exploring new ideas and finding ways to make Jamaicans, particularly low income earners, experience the pride of owning decent and comfortable living spaces. "What began as a humble mission...

Sugar industry workers have been granted a 16.5 per cent wage increase for the 2006/08 contract period.Minister of Labour and Social Security, Horace Dalley, signed the agreement with the Sugar Producers Federation and unions representing the workers this morning (March 20) at his National Heroes Circle offices. The agreement will provide for a 10 per cent increase this year and...

Senator Donna Scott-Mottley has called on the government to lend greater support to the development of cultural industries in Jamaica. "It is the international recognition of the role of creative industries in the future economic prosperity of developing countries, as well as Jamaica's strong cultural industries, that demand that we stop paying lip service to this area," Senator Scott-Mottley remarked,...

Senator Donna Scott-Mottley has hailed the Culture Division of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture, for leading the charge to protect the country's cultural industries. This is being done by adhering to an international process, which seeks to maintain the rights of governments to create policies for the protection and promotion of diversity of cultural expressions. Mrs. Scott-Mottley, who...

The Annotto Bay High School in St. Mary is to be expanded, with the construction of three two-storey blocks to accommodate five classrooms, a staff room, vice principal's office, computer laboratories, chemistry, physics and biology laboratories, building technology workshops, storerooms, a food and nutrition laboratory and bathrooms for students. The project, which will also include the building of a multi-purpose...

Opposition Senator, Prudence Kidd-Deans has recommended that every level of bureaucracy be removed, so as to "facilitate the application of every decent law-abiding Jamaican who has applied and who fits the criteria for a firearm licence, be granted one". The Senator, who was making her contribution to the State of the Nation Debate in the Senate on March 17, argued...

As of April 4, motorists parking in designated areas on Orange, Union, Strand and Harbour Streets in Montego Bay, will be required to pay a fee, as the St. James Parish Council implements phase two of its metered parking project. Secretary/Manager of the St. James Parish Council, Ian Reid, explained that to park on these streets, motorists would be required...