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Forty-two foster care parents will be honoured by the Child Development Agency (CDA) tomorrow (February 18), at a special banquet to be held at the Hilton Kingston Jamaica Hotel, beginning at 6:30 p.m. The function will be the culmination of National Foster Care Recognition Week, which will end on that day. A breakdown of the awards show that 23 persons...

Minister of Water and Housing Donald Buchanan on Wednesday (Feb. 15) broke ground for a water supply system which will serve the Christiana and Spalding areas of the parishes of Manchester and Clarendon.The system will cost some $166 million, and is to be constructed by the National Water Commission (NWC). Speaking at the groundbreaking activity, which was carried in the...

Financial Secretary, Colin Bullock, has urged civil servants to uphold the values and standards of good corporate governance. "Fellow public servants, if we agree that good corporate governance is essential and that its absence threatens the achievement of our organizational mission and objectives, then, as outlined in Ministry Paper #56 on the 2002-2012 Public Sector Modernization Vision and Strategy, it...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force's crime fighting capacity has been boosted with the graduation of 105 policemen and women from the Twickenham Park training facility in St. Catherine on February 16. The graduates will be placed on frontline duty as constables. Addressing the gathering, Minister of National Security, Dr. Peter Phillips, informed that the graduation exercise marked, "a fundamental stage in...

Beneficiaries of the government's Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), will receive a 32.5 per cent increase in their benefits, effective February 2006. Each beneficiary in a household will now be receiving $530, up from the current $400. This was revealed by Director of the PATH programme, Trevor Smith, in an interview with JIS News on February 16....

Students and teachers of the Trout Hall All-age School in Clarendon now have new sanitary facilities, through $4.5 million in funding from the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF). Speaking at the handing over ceremony held on Wednesday (Feb.15) at the school, principal Shudley Bryce expressed his gratitude to the JSIF for answering the request of the Trout Hall Citizen's Association,...

Work on the refurbishing of a large earth drain adjoining the Georgia district in western St. Thomas, should be completed next week. The $2 million project, which is being undertaken under the Lift-Up Jamaica programme, included the paving of a 2,590,800-metre (850 feet) drain and the placing of stones along its 1.77-metre wall (seven foot). "We are about 95 per...

Minister of Industry and Tourism, Aloun Ndombet Assamba, has called on hotel managers and executives to implement HIV/AIDS workplace policies, to promote prevention activities and reduce discrimination. "Get involved in this process. Do not just go for the minimum acceptable standard .take it on as if your very lives depend on it," Mrs. Assamba said, as she addressed an HIV/AIDS...

His Excellency The Most Hon. Kenneth Octavius Hall, was installed as Jamaica's fourth native Governor-General yesterday (Feb.15), and in his inaugural speech, declared his intent to work to build social capital and to project a self reliant, self-confident Jamaica. He pointed out that as one of the symbols of national unity, the office of the Governor-General would be an active...

Coffee farmers in the Rowlandsfield area of Eastern St. Thomas could soon realize a reduction in production costs, through the use of the diluted injection fertiliser pump. At a one-day training workshop organised by the Coffee Industry Board (CIB) recently at the Rowlandsfield Community Centre, the farmers were introduced to the system, which according to CIB Parish Advisory Officer, Damion...

As Canada week is being observed from February 13 to 19, the Association of Local Government Authorities (ALGA) has expressed appreciation to the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) for its valued contributions to the organsiation. Mayor of May Pen and President of ALGA, Councillor Milton Brown told JIS News today (February 16), that CIDA had provided major support to the...

Come tomorrow (Feb. 17) a team of 30 Cubans and 30 Jamaicans would begin distributing energy saving bulbs to households in East Kingston and Port Royal in exchange for incandescent bulbs, which will be destroyed on receipt. The move is part of the joint energy saving project between Jamaica and Cuba, which provides for the replacement of incandescent bulbs with...