Further research and development of fruits and vegetables will be facilitated under the Centre of Excellence for Advanced Technology in Agriculture (CEATA), with the construction of two new greenhouses, this...

Parish Councils islandwide have been leading the charge in the registration of projects at the community level, to be carried out on Labour Day, May 23. This was disclosed by...

Some $21.85 million has been allocated in the 2012/13 Estimates of Expenditure for a project to strengthen civil society participation in local governance and establish a co-ordinated local civil society...

Local Government and Community Development Minister, Hon. Noel Arscott, has underscored the pivotal role which local authorities must play in sustaining good governance in communities, by seeking to assist them...

Since the start of the year, the parish of St. Elizabeth has seen a 24 per cent reduction in major crimes, with a 38 per cent drop in the murder...

The cleaning of the Lucea cemetery is the parish project for Hanover for Labour Day 2012 on May 23. The project was chosen at a multi-sectoral meeting held in the...

The new government, which was elected to office on December 29, 2011, has placed local governance at the top of the national agenda, with a full Ministry of Local Government...

The 24 People’s National Party (PNP) Councillors of the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC), who were successful in the March 26 Local Government election, were sworn on April 10,...

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Noel Arscott, says the Government is moving “full speed ahead’ with local government reform. He said that three pieces of legislation, to...

Newly appointed Mayor of Kingston, Senator Angella Brown Burke, has welcomed the announcement that the Government has commenced the process of entrenching local governance in Jamaica’s Constitution, which will enable...

Councillor for the Norman Gardens Division of the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC), Senator Angella Brown Burke, was sworn in on April 2, as the 51st Mayor of the...