The St. Ann's Bay Community Development Fund (CDF) has disbursed $62.3 million in loans to 598 small business operators over the last decade. In her report at the institution's 10th...

The long awaited proposed draft of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of Jamaica is expected to head to Cabinet next month. The process, which commenced in 1998, has been...

The National Solid Waste Management Project has been allocated $75 million in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project seeks to: improve the management...

Information Manager of the Barbados-based Caribbean Emergency Response Agency (CDERA), Terry Ally, has said that the Caribbean was moving from a "response and relief" mode towards strengthening partnerships within the...

Twenty families from Rose Hall Lane in Kingston, whose homes were ravaged by fire in January of last year, recently received personal care packages and cash valued at $200,000 from...

The St. Thomas Fire Division will be embarking on a project to assist needy persons, especially the aged, whose homes have been destroyed by fire and other disasters. Superintendent of...

There has been a constant outpouring of goodwill and support from Jamaicans towards the Haitian refugees who have fled their country in the last two weeks. Several companies, community groups...

The Trelawny Lay Magistrates Association will be hosting its annual prayer breakfast, at Roy's Villas, in Deeside, Falmouth, in the parish, on Thursday, March 11, under the theme, 'Love Thy...

With the pending introduction of the Access to Information Act, the Ministry of Local Government, Community Development and Sport has already established its own Access to Information (ATI) Unit. The...

Mayor of Kingston, Councillor Desmond McKenzie recently met with authorities of the Guadalajara Town Council in Mexico, where he held talks on the development of the Kingston market district. "If...

The St. James Parish Council has been allocated 1,000 new street lights for the entire parish. This was announced yesterday (September 4) by the Director of Planning at the St....