It is often said that talk is cheap. However by demolishing social and political barriers, through meaningful dialogue, several inner-city communities have demonstrated that talk can in fact be quite...

Reconstruction work is to be carried out on some 14 schools in Clarendon under the first phase of the Hurricane Ivan Reconstruction programme being carried out by the Jamaica Social...

Minister of Local Government, Community Development and Sport, Portia Simpson Miller has called for the revival of the strong community spirit, which has in the past enabled the country to...

The first set of completed housing units under the Inner City Housing Project will be available for occupation in February 2005. Director of the Inner City Housing Project, Maurice Anderson,...

The St. Elizabeth Parish Council, has established a care centre to provide refuge for street people in the town on Black River. The facility, located at 58 High Street, will...

Students of Crescent Primary School in St. Catherine, their teachers and parents wait anxiously for Labour Day (May 24), when the school will receive road safety improvements, aimed at making...

The St. Ann's Bay Community Development Fund (CDF) has disbursed $62.3 million in loans to 598 small business operators over the last decade. In her report at the institution's 10th...

The Westmoreland Labour Day Committee is expected to mobilize thousands of citizens and children from across the parish to participate in this year's Labour Day activities, which are geared towards...

For the last 50 years they have been the eyes of Jamaica's visually impaired and blind. Their motto, "The worst thing is to be born sighted and lack vision" is...

Seventy-nine students from New York's Pace University will take time out of their spring break vacation to participate in a service project at the Whitehall Basic School in Negril, Jamaica,...

The St. Thomas Fire Division will be embarking on a project to assist needy persons, especially the aged, whose homes have been destroyed by fire and other disasters. Superintendent of...