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Prime Minister P. J. Patterson has announced that the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) would be relocating its headquarters from its present Old Hope Road premises to the former Cable and Wireless building at the corner of Duke and North Streets in Downtown Kingston. Mr. Patterson made the announcement yesterday (January 9), at a press briefing at Jamaica House, where he...

Several communities across Jamaica have benefited from a multi-million dollar community centre rebuilding project, which was executed by corporate giant Red Stripe. The project, which was undertaken last year, saw some $10 million being spent for re-building, upgrading, and re-furbishing of six community centres and recreational facilities islandwide. The beneficiary communities are Bounty Hall, Trelawny; Rae Town, Kingston; Bull Savannah,...

Earthquake Awareness Week activities began in Portland on Sunday, January 8 with a church service at the Port Antonio New Testament Church of God in Jamaica. To be held under the theme: 'Prepare Now! Don't Wait.Be Ready for the Next Earthquake', the events have been planned by the Portland Disaster Committee and include educational talks and earthquake drills in a...

The Clarendon Parish Disaster Committee is planning a yearlong programme of activities to encourage earthquake preparedness with special focus placed on schools. "We will be targeting a number of schools to make more young persons aware of how to respond during an earthquake," said Camille Delgado, Regional Director for the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM). "It is...

Jamaican egg farmers are taking steps to enter the liquefied egg trade, in light of the growing demand and the importation of the product by the hotel and baking industries. Chairman of the Jamaica Egg Farmers Association (JEFA), Mark Campbell has said that the egg trade was big business, and needed all the support it could get to ensure its...

The National Works Agency (NWA) is spending approximately $32 million to repair 1.5 kilometres of roadway from Four Paths to Osbourne Store in Clarendon, which was extensively damaged from the flood rains associated with Hurricane Wilma. "We expect that the motoring public is going to benefit greatly from this level of rehabilitation," said Colin Morrison, Acting Communications Manager at the...

Cabinet has mandated the Human Resource Committee to reconsider the minimum standard of living below which no Jamaican should live, as a guiding barometer in the fight to eliminate poverty. Prime Minister P.J. Patterson said this was one of the decisions taken at the recently concluded Cabinet retreat. He was speaking on Monday (Jan. 9) at the post cabinet retreat...

The Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Professor Richard Feachem has congratulated Jamaica for the programme of activities implemented by the government in the fight against AIDS. The Executive Director said he and the other members of the delegation from the Global Fund were impressed by what they had seen during their visit to...

Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has called for prompt action to be taken to expand the power generating capacity of the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) to avoid load shedding. The Prime Minister, who was addressing a post Cabinet retreat press conference at Jamaica House yesterday (Jan. 9), said that a decision had to be taken immediately to increase the capacity of...

The governments of Jamaica and the United States have signed a statement of intent for the establishment of a state-of-the-art seismograph station at Pike, Manchester, which is one of nine to be set up throughout the Caribbean. Minister of Land and Environment, Dean Peart and United States Ambassador Brenda Johnson, signed the relevant documents this morning at the Ministry's Half-Way-Tree...

A United States medical team is slated to visit Jamaica from January 13 to 22, where they will offer free healthcare to residents in communities throughout the island. The nine-day mission is being facilitated by the Organization for International Development (OID), which is headed by Dr. Roy Streete, a Jamaican dentist based in the Bronx, New York. According to Dr....

Jamaica will hand over chairmanship of the Group of 77 & China (G-77 & China) to South Africa during an official ceremony at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York City on Thursday, January 12. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, K.D. Knight will hand over the Instrument of Authority, signaling the change of chairmanship, to Dr. Nkosazana...