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With Highway 2000 now open, construction of houses in the Inner City Housing Project is to commence shortly, said Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, in a radio broadcast on 'JIS Notebook', which has been aired on two radio stations on Saturday (Sept. 27). The message will be broadcast this evening (Sept. 28) on three other radio stations. Designed to provide modern...

Members of the Senate on Friday (September 26) accepted a motion moved by Government Senator and President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society, Norman Grant, to give full support to the nation's farmers in their commitment to increase production of food. Government Senator and State Minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture, Noel Monteith, in his contribution, said the...

The October 1 commencement date for the Access to Information Act (ATI) has been pushed back to a later date in the month to allow for the ATI Regulations to be passed by both Houses of Parliament. Leader of Government Business, Senator Burchell Whiteman made the announcement at Friday's (Sept. 26) sitting of the Senate at Gordon House. Senator Burchell,...

Dolphin Cove, one of Jamaica's north coast marine attractions, in Ocho Rios, St. Ann, has become the preferred destination for many, outgrowing its present status, and so, has plans to expand its programme, at an estimated cost of $250 million. The expansion programme, which is expected to be completed for the new winter tourist season, will extend to Montego Bay,...

Approximately 45 workers in the sugar industry in Clarendon have received their letters of possession for lots of land in the Rowington Park scheme in that parish. The certificates were handed over by the National Housing Trust (NHT) on Thursday (Sept. 25) at a ceremony held at Rowington Park in the parish. Speaking at the ceremony, Managing Director of the...

The Research Department of the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), will be staging a Book Fair at its headquarters at 58A Half-Way-Tree Road on Friday, October 3 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and on Saturday, October 4 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. This will be the third fair to be staged at headquarters in the Corporate Area, since the...

National Senior Citizens' Week will be observed from September 28 to October 2, under the theme, 'Promoting Quality of Life for an Aging Society'. Beverley Hall-Taylor, Director for the National Council for Senior Citizens told JIS News that the theme was appropriate given the fact Jamaica had 260,000 senior citizens, which represented approximately 10 per cent of the population. "People...

The Embassy of Japan and the Board of Cornerstone Ministries have signed a US$76,483 contract to establish an automotive training centre at the Ministries' Connolley Avenue training facility in Kingston. The signing took place yesterday (Sept. 25) at the Japanese Embassy on Oxford Road in Kingston. The project is being funded under the Government of Japan's Grant Assistance to Grassroots...

Minister of Development, Dr. Paul Robertson has called on the country's producers to get organised to become more competitive and to enhance their ability to penetrate external markets. "Given the size of the domestic market, it will be necessary for our producers to export if their businesses are to expand and allow the economy to grow. We cannot simply rely...

A steering committee consisting of eleven business leaders in Portmore, St Catherine has been established to spearhead the formation of a private sector organisation of Portmore. The committee was formed at a business sector meeting on Wednesday (Sept. 24) at the Lion's Civic Centre in Edgewater, St. Catherine and attended by a wide cross section of business leaders from Portmore....

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, K.D. Knight signed a Framework Convention on Tobacco Control at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York on Wednesday (Sept. 24), as part of a UN treaty event. The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control was adopted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on May 21, and is designed to reduce the devastating...

Donations amounting to US$1,500, which were collected at the annual Independence Church Service hosted by the Jamaican Consulate in New York on August 10, have been sent to Jamaica Aids Support. "We are very pleased that we were able to use the occasion of the Independence Church Service to bring comfort and much needed relief to those deserving of support...