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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...

Prime Minister-designate and Local Government, Community Development and Sport Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, will be sworn in as Jamaica's seventh Prime Minister, and first female Head of Government, on Thursday, March 30. At Monday's (March 13) post-Cabinet press briefing, Mrs. Simpson Miller announced that members of the new Cabinet, which she would appoint, would be sworn in on Friday, March...

Minister of Water and Housing, Donald Buchanan left the island on Sunday, March 19 to attend the ministerial session of the 4th World Water Forum, which is being held in Mexico City. The forum, which has been in session since yesterday (March 16), and will continue until Wednesday, March 22, is centred around the main theme: 'Local Actions for a...

Information Minister, Senator Burchell Whiteman emphasised today (March 18), that recent amendments to the Broadcasting and Radio Re-Diffusion Act, is to ensure that, "we do not protect one set of operators or enterprises at the expense of another". In an interview with JIS News, the Minister pointed out that changes to the Act, which seek to expand the categories of...

Jamaicans are now more willing to report police misconduct and this has advanced the work of the Professional Standards Branch (PSB) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), as it seeks to make the Force more professional and efficient, paving the way for a safer Jamaica. Head of the Corporate Affairs Division of the PSB, Superintendent Lorna Wilson tells JIS News...

Data provided by the Planning Institute of Jamaica show a 9.6 per cent growth in the country's construction and installation sector for the third quarter of 2005. An overall growth of 7.6 per cent is estimated for the sector for that entire year. Prime Minister P.J. Patterson made the disclosure on Saturday (Mar. 18) in an address at the 15th...

Information Minister, Senator Burchell Whiteman emphasised today (March 18), that recent amendments to the Broadcasting and Radio Re-Diffusion Act, is to ensure that, "we do not protect one set of operators or enterprises at the expense of another". In an interview with JIS News, the Minister pointed out that changes to the Act, which seek to expand the categories of...

For the second time, the Supreme Court yesterday (March 17), turned down an application from OLINT Corporation, and its proprietor David Smith, that sought orders to return materials seized by the Financial Services Commission (FSC), pursuant to the search warrant, from the Corporation's premises in New Kingston. The court refused the application after hearing preliminary points made by Counsel for...

Jamaicans are now more willing to report police misconduct and this has advanced the work of the Professional Standards Branch (PSB) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), as it seeks to make the Force more professional and efficient, paving the way for a safer Jamaica. Head of the Corporate Affairs Division of the PSB, Superintendent Lorna Wilson tells JIS News...

Persons participating in the Jamaica 4-H Clubs should view this activity as a stepping stone on a career path or as an entrepreneurial opportunity. This is the view of Kido Smith, a second year student at the May Pen campus of Knox Community College in Clarendon. Speaking with JIS News at the Clarendon 4-H Parish Achievement Day exposition at Knox...

Attached is a congratulatory message from Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Hon. Patrick Manning, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, to President-Elect of Haiti, H.E. Rene Preval. His Excellency Ren

Executive Director of the Jamaica Employers' Federation (JEF), Jacqueline Coke-Lloyd, has charged corporate Jamaica to move to address HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination in the workplace. Mrs. Coke-Lloyd's appeal came against the results of a corporate survey report on HIV/AIDS in the workplace, which found that of the 23 companies that completed written surveys, only 39 per cent reported having HIV/AIDS-specific...