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Mr Speaker, I wish to thank the Most Honourable Prime Minister for his timely establishment of the National Task Force on Education, which has provided for us a strategic foundation on which we must continue to build to create a globally competitive world-class education system. Not only has he taken a positive stand for education again, but he has translated...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth & Culture, Dr. Donald Rhodd, today (May 9) commended the public and private sectors for their support of the National Labour Day Project, whilst urging other private sector entities to contribute to Labour Day activities at the national or community level. Speaking at a press briefing held this morning (May 9)...

The Ministry of Water and Housing is confident that it will be able to meet and fulfill its policy objectives in its thrust to enable total access to potable water by Jamaicans, come 2010. Director of Water Policy and Research in the Ministry, Patricia Snow tells JIS News that foremost among the Ministry's strategies for the new legislative year is...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth & Culture, Dr. Donald Rhodd, today (May 9) commended the public and private sectors for their support of the National Labour Day Project, whilst urging other private sector entities to contribute to Labour Day activities at the national or community level. Speaking at a press briefing held this morning (May 9)...

The Ministry of Water and Housing is confident that it will be able to meet and fulfill its policy objectives in its thrust to enable total access to potable water by Jamaicans, come 2010. Director of Water Policy and Research in the Ministry, Patricia Snow tells JIS News that foremost among the Ministry's strategies for the new legislative year is...

Jamaican bananas re entered the export market on Saturday (May 7) when 12,000 boxes of the fruit left the Boundbrook Wharf in Port Antonio for Europe aboard the Cape Cod. When JIS NEWS visited the wharf on Saturday morning, forklift operators were busy unloading cargo from the ship, while stevedores employed to the Jamaica Freight and Shipping Company waited to...

Jamaican bananas re entered the export market on Saturday (May 7) when 12,000 boxes of the fruit left the Boundbrook Wharf in Port Antonio for Europe aboard the Cape Cod. When JIS NEWS visited the wharf on Saturday morning, forklift operators were busy unloading cargo from the ship, while stevedores employed to the Jamaica Freight and Shipping Company waited to...

Minister of National Security, Dr. Peter Phillips recently visited recuperating Constable Calvin Cargill, who is currently a patient at a rehabilitation centre in Miami. Constable Cargill was shot in the line of duty last July in May Pen, Clarendon. As a result of his injuries, Constable Cargill has been left paralyzed. He has since been receiving medical care and physical...

Roadways in sections of Eastern and Western St. James, which took a battering from persistent heavy rainfall last week, are to receive immediate attention. A special action team, to be headed by Dr. Barbara Carby of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), and made up of key representatives from the St. James Parish Council, Ministry of Transport...

Peter Webley, publisher of the monthly newspaper, Caribbean Today, was recently inducted into the Miami Hall of Fame, because of his outstanding contribution in the area of journalism. Mr. Webley, a Jamaican, has been described as one of the pioneers of Caribbean news in South Florida, with the launch of his monthly publication in December 1989. With a circulation of...

An organization which began as an adhoc committee to highlight the positive aspects of Jamaica's culture in Canada, is this year celebrating its 10th anniversary as an incorporated body. Arts and Culture Jamaica Inc. (ACJAM) marked the occasion recently by staging its first Scholarship Awards Ceremony at the Jamaican Consulate General in Toronto, Canada, for the five students who are...

The Cambridge Infant School in St. James has been expanded at a cost of $3.6 million, provided by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF). The school was handed over on Friday, May 6. More than $100 million has now been spent by the Fund on educational projects in the parish. The project, which began in November 2004, included the construction...