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Peace Day will be observed tomorrow (March 7), and as part of its activities, the Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA) and Peace and Love in Society (PALS) will host a Peace Day concert at the August Town Primary School. August Town Primary, like many other schools, is a member of the PALS programme and the Community Security and Justice Programme (CSJP),...

Prime Minister, P.J. Patterson yesterday (March 3) handed out documents of ownership to the first batch of 68 persons who have benefited from the National Housing Trust's (NHT) development of some 664 service lots for workers of the Frome Sugar Factory in the parish of Westmoreland. The presentations were made at an official ceremony, which was held at the development...

Vice President of Operations of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Desmond Brunton has said that the Bank would continue to lend its technical and financial support to Jamaica as it sought to help to improve the status of the most vulnerable, by increasing economic opportunities through capacity building. Mr. Brunton was addressing the launch of the construction phase of the...

Jamaica's Acting Consul General in Toronto, Dale Jones has reiterated that a sound Early Childhood education was the most solid foundation for social and economic advancement. Mr. Jones was speaking recently at a reception held at the Jamaican Consulate General for seven Jamaican Early Childhood educators who were wrapping up a two-week study tour with Toronto-based George Brown College. "In...

In about four weeks, Prime Minister P.J. Patterson will demit office as head of government and hand over the reigns of leadership to Local Government, Community Development and Sport Minister, Portia Simpson Miller. As Information Minister, Senator Burchell Whiteman tells JIS News, the transition process to Mrs. Simpson Miller becoming the nation's seventh and first female Prime Minister, will firstly...

Jamaica's rich social and cultural heritage will be the focus of the Nazareth past students at their annual Emancipation Day celebration in Maidstone, Manchester. Emancipation Day, a national holiday, will be observed on Tuesday, August 1, 2006. At a recent meeting of the North American Chapter of the Nazareth Old Students Association (NOSA), to review last year's celebrations, the membership...

The preservation of the environment is being given added focus by the Jamaica 4-H Movement, as the 65-year old organisation has fully integrated a programme known as the Environmental Challenge into its curriculum of activities for members. According to Public Relations Officer at the Jamaica 4-H Club, Karelle McCormack, the Environmental Challenge began as a pilot programme in 2003 and...

The Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ), formerly known as the Office of the Registrar of Companies (ORC), is urging businesses to file documents to ensure compliance with the Companies Act. Speaking with JIS News, Deputy Chief Executive Officer at the COJ, Shellie Leon said that Company Officers are required by the 2004 Companies Act to file the following with the...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. K. D. Knight has announced the appointment of Mrs. Anne-Marie Bonner, former Principal Director in the Policy Analysis and Review Unit, of the Cabinet Office, as Jamaica's Consul General to Toronto. Mrs. Bonner succeeds Miss Vivia Betton, who retired on completion of a three-year tour of duty as Consul General on...

Members of Parliament of the ruling People's National Party have unanimously approved Member of Parliament for South West St. Andrew and Minister of Local Government, Community Development and Sport, Portia Simpson Miller to succeed Prime Minister P.J. Patterson. Making the announcement during Tuesday's (Feb.28) sitting of the House of Representatives, Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, who will resign shortly, said Governor...

The history books of Jamaica recorded a significant entry on Saturday, February 25, 2006 when Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, Minister of Local Government, Community Development and Sport emerged the winner of a keenly contested race for the presidency of the ruling People's National Party. She will be the first woman to become President of any of Jamaica's leading political parties...

Chairman of the National Investment Bank of Jamaica (NIBJ) and head of the recently established Spanish Town Redevelopment Company (SPARCOM), Aubyn Hill, has said the group stood ready to take all necessary steps to improve the old capital as soon as Cabinet gave its approval. SPARCOM which is a government/private sector entity, lead by Mr. Hill, plans to refurbish the...