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Eighteen -year old Teshina Thompson, one of 58 graduates of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management’s (ODPEM) Emergency Affiliated Radio Services (EARS) Programme, demonstrates the use of an analog radio in communicating during times of disaster.

ODPEM Equipping Communities to Respond During Disasters

By: Oroyo Eubanks, September 25, 2014

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), through its Emergency Affiliated Radio Services (EARS) programme, is ensuring that communities, particularly remote areas, can adequately communicate before, during and...

Colon Man and the Panama Experience Lecture at the IOJ

By: Elaine Hartman-Reckord, September 19, 2014

Mr. Lecksley Johnson, an employee at Jamaican Teas Limited, performs his duty as a Documentation Officer.

Company Offers Opportunity to the Disabled

By: Shari-Ann Palmer, September 19, 2014

Community 11 years ago JIS Launches Heritage Poster Competition
By: Christine Ade-Gold, September 29, 2014
Community 11 years ago Retired Educator is a Community Treasure
By: Garfield L. Angus, September 8, 2014
Community 11 years ago Inner City Children In Montego Bay Receive Back-To-School Supplies
By: Marlon Tingling, September 2, 2014

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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, tries out a bamboo chair on display at the recent Denbigh Agricultural Industrial and Food Show in Clarendon. Looking on is President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Senator Norman Grant.

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Jamaica Embarks On Commercial Bamboo Production

Jamaica is to embark on the large scale production of bamboo for the construction of low-cost houses and value added products such as furniture and charcoal for the export market....

By: Garfield L. Angus, September 2, 2014

The three Commissioners who will preside over the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry were sworn in on Friday August 29, 2014 at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel. The Commissioners who took the Oath of Office before former Chief Justice of Jamaica, Hon. Mr. Justice Lensley Wolfe, (ret’d) OJ, JP, are: Chairman, Retired Chief Justice and former Attorney General of Barbados Sir David Simmons; Retired Judge of the Court of Appeal of Jamaica, Mrs. Justice Hazel Harris, CD; and Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice and Security, University of the West Indies, Professor Anthony Harriott.

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West Kingston Enquiry Commissioners Sworn In

The three Commissioners who will preside over the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry were sworn in on Friday August 29, 2014 at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel. The Commissioners who took...

By: Damian Wilson, September 1, 2014

Governor General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen (left), offers words of commendation to Westmoreland teacher, Swaine Esson (centre), while presenting him with the Governor General’s Achievement Award on Thursday (August 28), at the All American Institute of Medical Sciences in Black River, St. Elizabeth. Sharing the occasion at right is the Custos of Westmoreland, Hon. Hartley Perrin.

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GG Hails Cornwall County Achievers

Governor General, His Excellency The Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, has commended the 2014 recipients of the Governor General’s Achievement Award (GGAA) for their contribution to national building. He said...

By: Marlon Tingling, August 30, 2014

Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Sharon Ffolkes Abrahams (left) is presented with Jack fish by Property Manager for the Montego Bay Fishermen’s Co-operative Society (MBFCS) Limited, Devon Crooks. Mrs. Ffolkes Abrahams was the guest speaker at the Co-operative’s Annual General Meeting held on August 21 at the Montego Bay Fishing Complex, St. James.

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Co-Operatives Play A Key Role In Community Development – Ffolkes Abrahams

Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Sharon Ffolkes Abrahams, is underscoring the importance of co-operatives to the development of communities and expansion of Jamaica’s...

By: Sharon Earle, August 25, 2014

Local Government and Community Development Minister, Hon. Noel Arscott (left), performs the symbolic ground breaking exercise to signal the formal commencement of the $11.2 million (US$100,000) Cecil Charlton Park Re-development Project in Mandeville, Manchester, on August 21. Also participating in the exercise were: Mandeville’s Mayor and Manchester Parish Council Chairperson, Councillor Brenda Ramsey (centre); First Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade, and Development, Canadian High Commission in Jamaica, Kelly Thompson (2nd right); and North West Manchester Member of Parliament, Mikael Phillips (right). Looking on is Manchester Parish Development Committee (MPDC) Chairperson, Sally-Ann Corrodus. The project is being implemented by the Manchester Parish Council, under the $2 billion (C$20 million) Government of Canada-funded Caribbean Local Economic Development Project (CARILED),

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Redevelopment Work Begins on Cecil Charlton Park

Redevelopment work has commenced on the Cecil Charlton Park in Mandeville, Manchester, to construct 10 kiosks for use by micro, small and medium sized entrepreneurs in the town. The kiosks...

By: Douglas McIntosh, August 24, 2014

Citizens Security and Justice Programme (CSJP) Communications Co-ordinator Patrice Tomlinson-Nephew engages (L-R) Shaneka Riley, graduate of Penwood High School; Tiffany McFarlane of Pembrooke Hall High School; Neisha Rose of Denham Town High School ;and Shemeka Ennis of the Young Women’s Christian Association in a team building exercise at the CSJP Summer Diversion Programme held at Dunrobin Primary School on Thursday August 21.

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Students Benefit From CSJP Summer Programme

While many students were at home engaged in various leisure activities during the summer break, more than 30 students from inner-city communities participated in the Citizens Security and Justice Programme’s...

By: Shelly-Ann Irving, August 24, 2014

Director for Environmental Management and Conservation at the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), Anthony McKenzie addresses a community meeting at Oswald’s restaurant, in Alligator Pond Manchester, where he urged property owners impacted by beach erosion to make contact with NEPA before erecting any personal solution.

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Property Owners Affected By Beach Erosion Urged To Contact NEPA

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is urging property owners impacted by beach erosion to make contact with the authority before effecting any personal solution. This is in order...

By: Rodger Hutchinson, August 23, 2014

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New York Kiwanians To Host Children’s Wellness Project In St. Ann

Kiwanians from several clubs in New York will visit Jamaica from August 28 to 31, to conduct a Children’s Wellness Service Project in Runaway Bay, St. Ann. The Kiwanis will...

By: Washington DC. Correspondence, August 23, 2014

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