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The 17th annual conference of the Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA), concluded at the Rose Hall Resort and Country Club in Montego Bay St. James on Friday (October 10), with participants expressing satisfaction that the event achieved its objective. President of the National Water Commission (NWC), E.G. Hunter, told JIS News, that the main focus, that of identifying new...

Upwards of the next 12 months, residents from communities in St. Elizabeth are expected to benefit from a number of water schemes being developed in sections of the parish. Water and Housing Minister, Dr. Horace Chang, advised that several projects are currently at varying stages of completion, while contracts are to be signed for the development and improvement of others....

Four students of Jamaican heritage attending universities within the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area in the United States of America (USA), are the recipients of the second Professor Gordon Shirley Book Scholarship Award. They are Nicole Adair, Mary Chambers and Duane McLarty of Howard University and Sharak Stephenson of Virginia International University. All four awardees achieved a 3.0 grade average and...

Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, Senator Warren Newby, has reiterated the need to utilise culture and the arts, in as many ways as possible, to engender a peaceful society. This, he adds, is in order to ensure that persons undertake "peaceful solutions in all conflicts, rather than the aggressive and physical solution so often...

Citizens are being reminded that they ought not to be turned away from any police station they attend to report incidents, no matter where they occur. "Police personnel are required by law to accept reports of incidents within and outside the station's operational boundaries," Head of the Constabulary Communications Network (CCN), Karl Angell, told JIS News in an interview. The...

Five new books, including the Manley Memoirs, by Beverley Manley and Roving with Lalah, by Robert Lalah published by Ian Randle Publishers, were unveiled at a special launch in London England, at the Jamaican High Commission, last Friday. The other books are: 'Daddy Sharpe, a Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Samuel Sharpe', by Fred Kennedy; 'Freedom and Constraint...

The St. Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS), on Friday (October 10), welcomed home two of its past students, who participated in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in China. The event, which was sponsored by the National Commercial Bank Foundation, saw many students making speeches, performing, and lauding the Olympians, Bridgette Foster-Hylton and Shericka Williams. In her address to the gathering,...

As the re-branded Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ), moves to increase the housing stock in Jamaica, Managing Director, Joseph Shoucair, said he fully supported the theme for this year's Habitat Day - 'Harmonious Cities'. "We believe the theme was very relevant, given the conflicting pressures on urban centres and cities, as more and more people move to these areas for...

Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports Olivia 'Babsy' Grange has expressed sadness at the passing of Jamaican music legend, Alton Ellis. Ellis lost his long-running battle with lymphatic cancer and died on Friday at the Hammersmith Hospital in London, where he had been undergoing treatment. Minister Grange said Jamaica had lost another musical giant and called on the nation...

Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, says Jamaica's tourism industry will require an infusion of creativity and innovativeness by all stakeholders, to withstand any likely fallouts resulting from the financial crisis currently affecting the United States of America (USA). He contends that while it may prove challenging to sustain and increase the number of visitors to the island, in light of prevailing...

The Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT), on October 10, unveiled five signboards in Montego Bay St. James, as part of the organisation's "Jamaica Heritage Trail" Project. The signboards, which have been erected at strategic points throughout the resort city, display significant details highlighting Montego Bay's and St. James' rich history. The project was undertaken in collaboration with the Spanish-Jamaica Foundation...

Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Christopher Tufton, has announced the establishment of a $400 million sugar cane expansion fund, to provide cane farmers with grant and loan funding, to assist them in improving the efficiency and productivity of their farms. The fund, which will be administered by the Sugar Industry Authority (SIA), will place particular focus on improving the farms' infrastructure,...