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The Office of National Reconstruction (ONR), including Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Danville Walker, will meet with President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Senator Norman Grant, by the end of this week. Communications Liaison in the ONR, Tracey Hamilton said that the team would meet together to determine the way forward for the agricultural sector. Speaking with JIS News, Senator...

A team from the Office of National Reconstruction (ONR) is now carrying out assessments of damage to schools and public buildings islandwide. It is expected that this assessment exercise will be concluded within the next two weeks. Speaking with JIS News, the ONR Communications Liaison, Tracey Hamilton said that the ONR was still very much in the assistance stage of...

Cabinet has approved amendments to the Coroners Act, to speed up the disposition of cases, give coroners greater control over the system as well as expand and formalize the existing procedures for the attendance of observers at post mortem examinations. Information Minister, Senator Burchell Whiteman who made the disclosure at yesterday's (September 20) post Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House,...

As the recovery effort continues in St. Mary, following the passage of Hurricane Ivan, 34 persons in the parish are still housed in three shelters as a result of damage done to their homes.Some 5,000 persons were housed in more than 100 shelters in various communities during the period immediately following the hurricane. The reduction in the figure is an...

Notwithstanding the damage in the west, as a result of Hurricane Ivan, the St. James Parish Council will be going ahead with activities to celebrate the 24th anniversary of Montego Bay gaining city status, during the month of October. Plans for the month-long series of activities to mark the occasion have been scaled down by the Council's Civic and Community...

Come October 1, the St. Thomas Parish Council will be operating from a new office situated at No. 11 Church Street in Morant Bay, the capital. The office will be on the same premises as the Morant Bay branches of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPSCo) and the National Water Commission (NWC). Secretary/Manager of the St. Thomas Parish Council, Clinton...

The Child Development Agency (CDA), in the aftermath of Hurricane Ivan, is in the process of mapping out a recovery plan for the 61 Children's Homes and Places of Safety, which will include providing psycho-social support for children and staff. Speaking with JIS News, Alison Anderson, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the CDA said that although the children in the...

Jamaica is to benefit from the donation of medication and relief supplies from Good Works International and the Neil O'Sullivan Foundation, two charity groups based in Atlanta in the United States. Sylvia Ashley, Vice President of Good Works International, made the announcement at the annual Atlanta/Montego Bay Sister Cities 'Dance for Health Mission Ball', held at the Atlanta Marriot Century...

The National Land Agency (NLA) is embarking on a new thrust to market its maps and other value-added products to their customers and other members of the public, who require land information. Garfield Knight, Director of Business Development and Technology at the NLA, told JIS News, that the marketing campaign began in early September and would continue for some time....

The St. Catherine Parish Council should by today (Sept. 20), have completed a detailed assessment of damage done to roads in the parish as a result of Hurricane Ivan for submission to the Ministry of Local Government, Community Development and Sport. Superintendent of Roads and Works at the Parish Council, Franklyn Binns, told JIS News, that the assessment would also...

The Clarendon Parish Disaster Committee is in the process of identifying alternative accommodation for persons still seeking shelter at schools in the parish, to facilitate the speedy resumption of classes. Parish Disaster Coordinator, Nether Lyttle, told JIS News that contact had been made with the May Pen ministers fraternal to request that large tents, which are used by the churches...

Less than ten days ago, Hurricane Ivan struck our island with vicious force. This resulted in loss of life and widespread damage islandwide to our homes, churches, schools, farms and places of business. The hurricane destroyed Grenada. St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the Cayman Islands and Cuba suffered severe damage from Ivan. It has left a trail of destruction in...