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Farmers in the parish of St. James, who suffered damage during the passage of Hurricane Ivan last September, have received vouchers valued at approximately $400,000 for replanting. The Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) distributed the first 124 vouchers to farmers recently, with the majority going to poultry farmers and the remainder handed out to vegetable farmers. Audley Bailey, Acting RADA...

The Spanish Town Hospital in St. Catherine is trying to collect some $84.6 million in outstanding fees owed by patients between April to December last year."If we could get even a half of this right now, it would make a big difference in meeting our needs and paying our bills in the hospital," Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Pauline Reid, told...

Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has stated that despite the passage of Hurricane Ivan the economy grew by just under two percent last year and was on a path of unprecedented expansion largely due to the government's marco-economic policies, infrastructure development and modernization as well as the implementation of programmes to improve the ease with which investors do business in Jamaica....

The accident and emergency unit at the Spanish Town Hospital in St. Catherine is to be upgraded at a cost of over $40 million. The funds will be provided by the National Health Fund (NHF). "The preliminary plans are in place and we're at the stage now where the work is out for tender, so we're hoping that by the...

The Clarendon Health Department will be observing Safer Sex Week from February 7 -12 and to mark the week, a condom dispensing machine will be installed at the Leiba's Esso Service Station in May Pen. At a meeting held at the health department on Friday (Jan. 21) Shelton Maxwell, Health Educator for the parish, informed that the machine was one...

Residents of Portland are now able to access the services of the Registrar General's Department (RGD) in the parish, with the opening of its Port Antonio Regional Office today, January 24. Operations began at 7:30 a.m. and scores of persons made applications for the various services offered by the department. The office, which is situated at 19 West Street in...

Jamaicans witnessed another true gem of a moment in the country's political history on Tuesday (January 18) when Edward Phillip George Seaga bade farewell to more than four decades of a stellar career as Leader of the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), and Member of Parliament for Western Kingston. Gordon House was redolent with the memories of his endeavours, which...

The Princess Margaret Hospital in St. Thomas, which is this year celebrating its 50th anniversary, has been prioritising its services, making use of the limited user fees it collects. "Certainly what we collect is not enough to sustain us. It demands creative planning. A lot of prioritisation has to go into what we do," David Coombs, Chief Executive Officer (CEO)...

Twenty-seven officers from the Department of Correctional Services have completed a two-week training course, to familiarise them with techniques in systematic search procedures using detection equipment. Certificates were presented to them on January 21 at a graduation ceremony held at the Caribbean Search Centre (CSC), situated at the Jamaica Police Academy in Twickenham Park, St. Catherine. Training was conducted by...

Customs Week will be observed internationally from January 23 to 29, and the Customs Department will be staging several activities during this period, to increase public awareness about its functions and the services it offers. Acting Collector of Customs in Montego Bay, Patricia Buchanan told JIS News that events would be taking place in Kingston, St. Ann's Bay and Montego...

A workshop was conducted on January 20 to update company Directors about the new regulations that will govern the formation and operation of a company, when implementation of the new Companies Act takes place on February 1. The workshop was organized by the Office of the Registrar of Companies (ORC) and Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), and held at JAMPRO's offices...

Twenty Jamaicans have been awarded scholarships by the Mexican government to pursue degree programmes at universities in Mexico. Mexican Ambassador, Benito Andion presented 12 of the 20 awardees with their admission letters yesterday (January 21), at the Mexican Embassy in Kingston. Mr. Andion congratulated the awardees and expressed the hope that the programme would produce 20 new ambassadors in the...