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Some 34 schools are preparing to participate in the Ministry of Health's Regional Cheer-offs, which begins today. Eliminations will commence in the Southern Region at the Kendal Campsite at Shooter's Hill in Manchester and will see schools from the parishes of St. Elizabeth, Clarendon and Manchester vying for three available places from the region. These teams will then go on...

Reggae icon, Robert Nesta Marley has been described as one of the most creative persons of all time to have influenced the world of popular music. Brazil's Minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil made the observation as he accepted the Bob Marley Award for outstanding achievement in the area of Art and Culture from the American Foundation for the University of...

Young persons in and around the Lauriston and Thompson Pen communities of Spanish Town have benefited from the recently staged youth forum hosted by the Lauriston/Thompson Pen 4-H Club under the theme 'Crime and Violence in Today's Society'. As a result of the forum young people in those volatile communities are now better equipped to identify and deal with activities...

Farmers in Portland have been encouraged to give more support to the People's Co-operative (PC) Bank in the parish, in order to strengthen the bank's ability to help the agricultural sector. The call came from Howard Paulwell, Chairman of the Bank's Committee of Management, when he addressed the annual general meeting of the bank in Port Antonio on February 17....

The Haile Selassie High School paid tribute to Jamaican men at the institution's 'Jamaica Day' celebrations, which were held under the theme 'Celebrating Jamaican men, stronger souls in finer frames' on February 17. The event was staged at the school's Payne Avenue grounds off Spanish Town Road, in collaboration with the Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA), the Safe Schools secretariat, and...

Minister of State for Finance and Planning, Fitz Jackson, has challenged young people to resist the lure of crime and to stay focused on "what is right, what is fair, and what is just". "The challenge that Jamaica's young people face is how to give up that which is attractive and chose something that is less attractive and if you...

The Police Traffic Division is reporting an increase in the number of fatal traffic accidents for the first 46 days of 2006, when compared with the corresponding period in 2005. "The figure for traffic accidents for 2006, up to February 15, was 37 fatal collisions and this resulted in 41 deaths. Last year, at this time, we had 35 fatal,...

New Acting Commissioner of Police (ACP), Lester Green, has said that the solution to crime and violence rested with citizens coming together to build their communities. He said that even with the best efforts of the police, if citizens did not come together "to work for the common good" then there would be no long-lasting solution to the problem of...

As the Registrar General's Department (RGD) continues to improve the services it offers to the public, the Port Antonio Regional Office is making a special effort to sensitise the people of deep rural communities about those services, and the ways in which they can be accessed. The office was opened in February last year, and covers the parishes of Portland,...

When psychologist Daphne Gayle became visually impaired after developing a rare eye disease while living in Canada years ago, her Canadian doctors thought that a change of altitude might help improve her overall health. Taking the advice, she returned to Jamaica and settled on a farm in Old Harbour, St. Catherine, not knowing that the move would lead to a...

State Minister for Finance and Planning, Fitz Jackson, has said that a statutory review period would be instituted for the 2004 Pension Act in the second phase of the reform process, in order to continually improve the effectiveness and utility of the regulatory provisions. "We are going on new grounds; we don't know what exactly we are going into and...

A number of the nation's primary schools are to benefit from the donation of 200 new Dell computers and 30 printers from two United States-based organizations. Representatives of the California-based Accounting Firm, RISARC Inc., and the Caribbean Classic Golf Invitational (CCG1) Foundation, will present the equipment, valued at approximately US$100,000, to Education, Youth and Culture Minister, Maxine Henry-Wilson, at a...