Fifteen communities served by the National Water Commission (NWC) Union/Balaclava water supply system in St. Elizabeth will experience disruption in their regular water supply over the next seven days. This...
Head of the Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Kingston office, Candis Hamilton, has pointed to the importance of human rights groups in ensuring the protection of individual liberties,...
Sustainable development in its most basic form is inconceivable without the participation of all people, Keith Evans, Representative for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Jamaica, has emphasised. Speaking at...
Information Minister, Senator Burchell Whiteman, has said that details of initiatives to be implemented to improve public order in the country, should be fully developed by March this year. He...
In my most recent broadcast to the nation, I spoke of the government's determination to reduce the deficit in the first instance and then to eliminate it altogether in the...
President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Senator Norman Grant, has emphasised the need for a Central Marketing Company for farmers within the organisation, adding that farmers must be able...
Members of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) should now find it easier to access legal services or advice as the organisation has retained the services of a legal officer and...
In a move to improve the capability of the Public Accountancy Board to carry out its functions, the Senate on Friday (Jan. 30) passed amendments to the Public Accountancy Act,...
Ambassador Stafford Neil, Jamaica's Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) has been elected as one of four Vice Presidents of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). In an...
To improve its customer service, the Land Titles Division of the National Land Agency (NLA) recently introduced simpler legal forms to assist customers in their application process. Registrar of Titles...
A group of nine Early Childhood Education (ECE) students from a Canadian college are doing field placement work at several basic schools in Western Jamaica. The group will stay in...