Following closely on the heels of a recent project involving the completion of a new classroom block and computer laboratory at the Sandy Bank Primary School in St. Elizabeth, the...
The Government through a Special Housing Programme will be constructing some 1,000 housing units and carrying out repairs to 10,000 housing structures across 60 constituencies in the island. Minister of...
A Bill entitled 'An Act to Repeal and Replace the Companies Act' was passed in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (Feb. 3) with 21 amendments. The Bill, piloted during...
Cabinet has approved the National Housing Trust (Amendment) Bill, to impose new penalties on employers who fail to hand over payments deducted on behalf of the Trust. The Bill, which...
The St. Ann Police Division is reporting an eight per cent reduction in major crimes last year, when compared with 2002. Deputy Superintendent, W. R. Gayle, who is in charge...
President and Chief Executive Officer of the largest and fastest growing Jamaican-owned business in the United States, Jamaican-born Lowell Hawthorne has decided to source a large quantity of spices in...
A symposium was held yesterday (February 2) at the Jose Marti Technical High School in St. Catherine to celebrate the life and music of reggae icon, Hon. Robert 'Bob' Nesta...
A seminar highlighting the importance of wetland conservation, was held at the new Port Antonio Marina in Portland yesterday (February 2), to observe World Wetlands Day 2004. The seminar was...
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...