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Members of the organising team for the University of Technology’s (UTech) Students’ Union charity fundraiser, Tag Drive 2014, discuss documents pertaining to the week of activities with UTech’s Director, Community Services, Mr. Seymour Riley (right), at Monday’s (November 10) launch of the project at the institution. From left are Students’ Union Executive Members, Delta Wright, President; Jevon Reid, Director of Community Service; and Khamoye Williams, College of Health Sciences Representative. The highlight of Tag Drive is an islandwide collection blitz, which will take place on November 14 and 15.
Members of the organising team for the University of Technology’s (UTech) Students’ Union charity fundraiser, Tag Drive 2014, discuss documents pertaining to the week of activities with UTech’s Director, Community Services, Mr. Seymour Riley (right), at Monday’s (November 10) launch of the project at the institution. From left are Students’ Union Executive Members, Delta Wright, President; Jevon Reid, Director of Community Service; and Khamoye Williams, College of Health Sciences Representative. The highlight of Tag Drive is an islandwide collection blitz, which will take place on November 14 and 15.

Kidney Support Foundation and Blind Society to Benefit from Tag Drive

By: Andrine Davidson, November 12, 2014
The University of Technology (UTech) Students’ Union has launched this year's Tag Drive, which is seeking to raise $3 million from donors across the island. Funds collected in the drive...
Logistics Coordinator for the Government’s National Health Emergency Response to the Chikungunya Virus (Chik V), the Jamaica Defence Force’s (JDF) Colonel Daniel Pryce (right), and other members of the JDF observe as their colleague cleans a drain in Washington Mews, Naggo Head, in Portmore, St. Catherine, during Saturday’s (November 8) vector control and clean-up activities in community. Saturday’s activities also involved representatives from the Ministries of Health, and Local Government and Community Development; Portmore Municipal Council; Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM); National Works Agency (NWA); National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA); and Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF).

Portmore Cleanup Project Hailed as a Success

By: Douglas Mcintosh, November 10, 2014
Senior Director for Mitigation Planning and Research at the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), Karema Aikens Mitchell, addresses a special meeting of the Hanover Parish Disaster Committee on Thursday (November 6), at the Hanover Parish Council in Lucea.

ODPEM Holds Disaster Awareness Sessions in Hanover

By: Marlon Tingling, November 8, 2014

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Participants at the National Senior Citizens’ Spelling Bee Competition, hosted by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security on Thursday, September 18, at the St Andrew Parish Church Hall, Kingston. A member of the Dorcas Senior Citizens’ Club in St. Thomas placed second in the competition.
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Seniors Active in St. Thomas

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By: Elaine Hartman-Reckord, October 1, 2014
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JIS Launches Heritage Poster Competition

The Jamaica Information Service (JIS) has launched its inaugural Heritage Poster Competition, under the theme, ‘We are Free’. Targeting secondary level students across Jamaica in Grades 7 to 13, the...
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By: Christine Ade-Gold, September 30, 2014