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Director General of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), Major Clive Davis. (FILE)

ODPEM Seeks Volunteers for Disaster Risk Management Programme

By: Rochelle Williams, October 20, 2017

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) is recruiting volunteers for its recently established National Disaster Risk Management Programme. Under the programme, community volunteers will be trained in...

Local Government and Community Development Minister, Hon. Desmond McKenzie. (FILE)

Local Government Minister Urges Collection of Fees

By: Douglas Mcintosh, October 17, 2017

Local Government and Community Development Minister, Hon. Desmond McKenzie (right), addresses members of the St. Mary Municipal Corporation during Thursday’s (October 12) special meeting of the council. The meeting was held at the council’s municipal building in Port Maria. Others (from left) are the Corporation’s Acting Chief Executive Officer, Ethlyn Douglas; and Port Maria Mayor, Councillor Richard Creary.

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Mayor of Kingston, Senator Councillor Delroy Williams, addresses today’s (October 10) sitting of the Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation at the Corporation’s offices on Church Street in downtown Kingston.

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Mayor Says Infrastructural Works Under Way in Kingston

Mayor of Kingston, Senator Councillor Delroy Williams, says critical infrastructural works are under way across the municipality to transform and reposition the city to better serve its residents and visitors....

By: Chris Patterson, October 11, 2017

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie (left), observes as Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang (second left), presents the Governor-General’s message to runner in the inaugural Local Government and Community Development cross-island run, Damion Hudson (right), today (October 10) at Jamaica House. In the background is Communications Specialist in the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development, Oliver Fagan

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Inaugural Cross-Island Run for Local Government

The inaugural Cross-Island Run got under way today (October 10) at Jamaica House to launch Local Government and Community Month, observed annually in November. The run will last until October...

By: Rochelle Williams, October 11, 2017

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Use Alternative Routes to Avoid Delays Along Mandela Highway – NWA

The National Works Agency (NWA) is advising motorists who use the Mandela Highway to travel to parishes west of Kingston such as Clarendon and St. Catherine to use alternative routes...

By: National Works Agency , October 10, 2017

Finance and the Public Service Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw.

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Government Renews Policies for Disasters

The Government has renewed Jamaica’s policies with the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility Segregated Portfolio Company (CCRIF SC) in the sum of US$6.1 million for 2017/18. According to the Administration’s...

By: Douglas Mcintosh, October 6, 2017

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (centre), turns on the $38-million Palmetto Pen/Breadnut Bottom/Rosewell Water Supply Project at the official commissioning of the project on the grounds of the Rosewell Primary School, recently. Others (from left) are Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang; Senator Aubyn Hill; Member of Parliament for South East Clarendon, Hon. Rudyard Spencer; and Mayor of May Pen, Councillor Winston Maragh.

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Measures Being Undertaken To Improve Access to Water for Residents of Clarendon

Several development projects and strategies are being undertaken by agencies of Government and the Clarendon Municipal Corporation to improve access to water for the 246,000 citizens of the parish. Less...

By: Garfield L. Angus, October 5, 2017

Pieces of work by participants in the Furniture Fair scheduled for Saturday, September 30, at Emancipation Park.

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SDC to Showcase Downtown Manufacturers

The Social Development Commission (SDC) will be hosting its inaugural Downtown Home and Furnishing Fair on September 30, to showcase furniture makers and artisans from the downtown Kingston area. The...

By: Stacy-Ann Delevante, September 29, 2017

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie (right), presents Ackee Village vendor, Chantel Lindsay, with a HEART Trust/NTA certificate for successfully completing a customer service training programme. The presentation was made prior to the launch of the market located along the Dyke Road in Portmore in July.

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Ackee Village Jamaica’s Next Popular Food Spot?

Much like the Melrose Hill yam park in Manchester, Boston Jerk in Portland, and Little Ochi located on the border of Manchester and St. Elizabeth, the newly constructed Ackee Village...

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Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie. (File)

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Fire Brigade to Get Over $30 Million to Purchase Boats

Local Government and Community Development Minister, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, says the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) will be providing more than $30 million to the Jamaica Fire...

By: Barbara Ellington , September 26, 2017

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