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Minister of Finance and Planning, Dr. Omar Davies has said that despite the challenges faced in fiscal year 2003/04, there were some significant positives in the economy during the period. Citing some of these positives, the Minister said that there were some successes in the Agriculture, Bauxite/Alumina and Tourism sectors. Dr. Davies gave this update during his contribution to the...

The Government of Jamaica has been receptive and timely in its submission of reports on its anti-terrorism efforts to the United Nations Security Council. Michael De Feo, Expert on Terrorism in the United Nations Office on Drugs and Terrorism, has said that the Government's responsiveness was exemplary and demonstrated the country's serious interest in implementing anti-terrorism legislation. Addressing representatives of...

Minister of National Security, Dr. Peter Phillips has emphasised that it was critical for decent and law abiding Jamaicans to form an alliance with the Police, dedicated to the task of reducing the level of crime in the society and restoring good order in the communities. He also reiterated that the current crime rate needed to be reduced, so that...

Minister of Finance and Planning, Dr. Omar Davies has said that despite the challenges faced in fiscal year 2003/04, there were some significant positives in the economy during the period. Citing some of these positives, the Minister said that there were some successes in the Agriculture, Bauxite/Alumina and Tourism sectors. Dr. Davies gave this update during his contribution to the...

The Government of Jamaica has been receptive and timely in its submission of reports on its anti-terrorism efforts to the United Nations Security Council. Michael De Feo, Expert on Terrorism in the United Nations Office on Drugs and Terrorism, has said that the Government's responsiveness was exemplary and demonstrated the country's serious interest in implementing anti-terrorism legislation. Addressing representatives of...

Minister of National Security, Dr. Peter Phillips has emphasised that it was critical for decent and law abiding Jamaicans to form an alliance with the Police, dedicated to the task of reducing the level of crime in the society and restoring good order in the communities. He also reiterated that the current crime rate needed to be reduced, so that...

The Hanover Parish Council is moving to ease the hardships being experienced by some residents in the parish by trucking water to the areas most affected by drought. Secretary/Manager of that Parish Council, Alfred Graham, said that to date, more than $700,000 had been spent by the Council to truck water to some of the worst affected areas, and there...

The Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) will be seeking to increase the fine for urinating in a public place from the current $1,000 to $20,000 to dissuade persons from carrying out such acts and to use sanitary public conveniences. Mayor of Kingston Councillor Desmond McKenzie made the disclosure on Tuesday (April 13) during the KSAC's monthly press briefing at...

Farmers in St. Catherine are now utilising a tractor for land preparation at a subsidised cost. The unit was recently assigned to the Jamaica Agricultural Society's (JAS) parish office in St. Catherine. The vehicle is one of six under the JAS Tractor Tillage Service, which was handed over to the JAS by the Development Bank of Jamaica through the Ministry...

Mayor of Kingston Councillor Desmond McKenzie issued a stern warning to operators of illegal roadside garages on Tuesday (April 13), that the Council would within the next two weeks commence operations to shut down such operations. He was speaking at the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation's (KSAC) monthly press briefing at its Church Street offices. The Mayor informed that the...

Plans for a major overhaul of the May Pen Cemetery have received a further boost as the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) was on Tuesday (April 13) presented with a cheque of $250,000 by Life of Jamaica Limited (LoJ) toward that project. The donation is the first in a series of contributions from that corporate body. Speaking at the...

The Hanover Parish Council is moving to ease the hardships being experienced by some residents in the parish by trucking water to the areas most affected by drought. Secretary/Manager of that Parish Council, Alfred Graham, said that to date, more than $700,000 had been spent by the Council to truck water to some of the worst affected areas, and there...