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The government of Jamaica will be spending approximately $100 million to acquire furniture and equipment to prepare schools for the new term in September. Acting Director of Project Management and Technical Services in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture, Lauriston Wilson, made the disclosure to JIS News at a Think Tank held yesterday (Aug.10) at the agency's Half Way...

The Jamaica Customs Department collected $706. 2 million in duty via its e-payment system for the first quarter of the 2005/06 financial year, with $684.3 attributed to the Kingston office and $21.9 million to Montego Bay. The figure represents a significant increase over the $245 million collected over the same period for 2004/05, where $235.1 million came from Kingston and...

Students who travel on the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) buses will be monitored more closely, come September. Manager of Marketing and Public Relations at the JUTC, Gwyneth Harold informed JIS News that due to the heightened incidences of vandalism carried out on the buses by students, the company would be observing keenly and taking the necessary action against them....

As the Government seeks to improve and rebrand the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), commuters are being asked to exercise care and control as they travel on the buses. Keith Chamberlin, Vice President of Operations and Employee and Public Relations told JIS News that although there has been a reduction in assaults against workers on the buses, the company still...

Come September, the Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited (JUTC) will begin posting timetables to provide commuters with scheduling information for its bus routes. Marketing and Public Relations Manager at the bus company, Gwyneth Harold, told JIS News that the process would involve the erection of schedule signboards at strategic locations in the Kingston Metropolitan Region for the convenience of commuters....

Phillip Chen, a teacher at Kingston Technical High School, was selected 'Teacher of the Year 2005', in the HEART Trust Technical High School Development Project, at a ceremony held at the Runaway Bay HEART Hotel on Wednesday, August 10. Mr. Chen, who competed against 13 other teachers from similar institutions across the island, walked away with the HEART Trust trophy,...

Governor General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Howard Cooke, while lauding the work of the Jamaican media, called for more emphasis to be placed on reporting the positives in the country. "I must confess frankly to you that sometimes, I worry about the content of some of the media's output; about the negative reporting, the emphasis on disaster and...

Cabinet has approved a proposal from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture for the erection of an $18 million four-classroom block at St. Jago High School in St. Catherine. Speaking at a post Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House yesterday (August 9), Minister of Information, Senator Burchell Whiteman, informed that the Ministry had identified the need for additional classroom...

A project to achieve sustainable coconut production by containing the Lethal Yellowing disease, was launched today (August 10), at the Courtleigh Hotel in Kingston. Called the Sustainable Coconut Production Through Control of Coconut Lethal Yellowing Project, it is to be funded at a cost of US$4.7 million, with a US$2.4 million grant from the Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) Common...

Agriculture Minister, Roger Clarke has announced a $10 million package of assistance for small citrus growers. The money is to assist the farmers to buy seedlings and other planting materials. The Minister made the announcement yesterday (August 9), during his address at a Citrus Nutrition Seminar at the Trade Winds Sports Club in Bog Walk, St. Catherine. Mr. Clarke explained...

The Portland Environment Protection Association (PEPA) is spearheading a tree-planting project on the grounds of the College of Agriculture Science and Education (CASE), aimed at providing a habitat for birds. The programme, which began in July with the planting of 100 timber trees, will continue in September, with a the planting of five acres of fruit trees. The plants are...

The Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) is considering an offer from the Ministry of Local Government, Community Development and Sport for the purchase of the Mayor's official residence on Argyle Road for $22.5 million. Details of the sale are to be finalised, pending recommendations from the finance sub-committee of the KSAC, said Mayor of Kingston, Councillor Desmond McKenzie. The...