The Jamaican High Commission in London has launched a special Relief Fund, in response to the damage caused to the island by Tropical Storm Gustav last week. The High Commission's...

Farmers and fisher folks are being urged by the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), to carry out the necessary post-storm recovery activities, to restore their operations in the shortest possible...

At least three criminal courts will be outfitted with advanced technology by the beginning of the new legal year, commencing in late September. The purpose of the new technology is...

The Government is making $140 million in loans and technical support available to resuscitate the dairy sector, and to increase milk production to 55 million litres by the year 2018....

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), today (September 4), received US$300,000 in relief commodities and transportation from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through its...

Prime Minister, Bruce Golding has instructed that each Member of Parliament should be permitted to utilise $2 million of their Constituency Development Fund (CDF) balances for relief/repair related expenditure. "It...

While some schools got off to a delayed start for the official start of the 2008/09 school year, because of Tropical Storm Gustav, for teachers and students at the Church...

Traffic flow between Kingston and St. Thomas has been restored with the newly installed Bailey bridge, which spans the Hope River in Harbour View, St. Andrew, but with a number...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has put forward a number of areas in which Jamaica is seeking to establish greater co-operation with Brazil. The areas being considered are the expansion of...

Status update on Damage to the Sector The 2008 School year should have started on September 1 however due to the passage of Tropical Storm Gustav we decided to facilitate...

Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, has informed that work is being carried out to restore access to the 13 communities in St. Thomas, Portland, St. Andrew, and St. Catherine, that remain...