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Over 120 senior citizens from Clarendon benefited from a health fair organized by the Lions Club of the parish on October 5 in celebration of World Service Day. The health fair was held at the Lions Health Centre on Foga Road in Denbigh. Ewan Scott, Club President told JIS News that the senior citizens were able to benefit from blood...

On Tuesday, October 14, the grounds of Nazareth All-age School, situated in the historic 163-year-old "free village" of Maidstone in Manchester will be the venue for a special ceremony to honour the "ancestral spirit" of pioneer ex-slave settlersLocal Historian, Hugh Nash told JIS News that the activity would begin at 10:00 a.m., under the theme, 'Embracing Our Heritage - Out...

Dr. Andrew Livingstone, Senior Vice President of Canadian management consulting firm, CoWater International, has lauded government's decision to implement a Rural Water Supply System (RWSP), noting that the project was an important response to the need for water. He was speaking at the recent opening of the Ministry of Water and Housing's RWSP workshop on Build and Operate (BO) Contracting...

Executive Director of the Mustard Seed Communities, Father Gregory Ramkissoon, is the 2003 recipient of the Ivy Humanitarian Prize for the Americas, in recognition of his decades of service to economically disadvantaged, mentally challenged and abandoned children in Jamaica. The award was announced by the Washington-based Ivy Inter-American Foundation (IIAF), during a visit to the Embassy of Jamaica in Washington...

The Jamaica Information Service's National Heritage Debate Competition was officially launched in Montego Bay on Tuesday (October 6), with Montego Bay High School emerging winners over Mt. Alvernia High School in the first of a series of seven matches to be held in the western region. Eight schools from Hanover, St. James and Westmoreland are expected to argue the moot,...

The Manchester Division of the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB), has organised a number of activities to observe Fire Safety Awareness Week, to run from October 26 to November 1. Sergeant Richard Smikle of the Fire Prevention Department told JIS News that the theme for the week was 'Information is key for a fire safe community'. He said the activities, to...

The Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ), has undertaken a programme of reorganisation of the island's People's Co-operative (PC) Banks, which should see the launch of a national co-operative within a few weeks. Byron McDonald, General Manager for Credit and Loan Administration at the DBJ, which has responsibility for the co-operatives, told JIS News, that the necessary resolutions to implement the...

Chairman of the National Poppy Appeal Committee, Lt. Col. Oral Khan is appealing to Jamaicans to support the drive to raise funds in the sum of $3.2 million, to assist ageing Jamaican ex-servicemen who fought in World War II. Lt. Col. Oral Khan, told JIS News in an interview, that the 2003 National Poppy Appeal, launched on October 5, would...

Seven students, four of whom are studying at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, have been presented with scholarships totalling more than C$15,000 from a Canadian charitable organization. The Pride of Toronto, Chapter No. 12, with members mainly of Jamaican heritage, handed out the scholarships at its 25th Anniversary Dinner and Charitable Presentation held at the Rameses Shriners...

Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of National Security, Senator Kern Spencer yesterday (Oct. 6), presented a report to Cabinet on the Youth Anti-crime Initiative, 14 months after it was launched. The report by Senator Spencer was made under a recent addition to the agenda of the Cabinet meeting, whereby every first Monday of the month, one member of the Council...

The November 15 inauguration of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has been postponed until the budget has been finalized for the establishment of the Court. Minister of Justice, Senator A. J. Nicholson made the disclosure while responding to questions posed by Opposition Senator, Bruce Golding about the establishment of the CCJ, during the sitting of the Senate at Gordon...

More households have access to public pipe-borne water than ever before, with that number increasing by 117,910 over the last decade, to 575,494, which represents 76 per cent of the 748,392 households across the island. These comparative figures are contained in the 1991 and 2001 Population Censuses, which provide the greatest avenue for gathering the most comprehensive set of information...