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Opposition Senator, Sandrea Falconer is contending that inner-city communities are not the major problem currently facing the country, but merely a symptom of what obtains. She argues that if these communities have been characterised as dens of criminality, then there is need to look beyond the immediate evidence to examine the root cause of such activities. Speaking in the 2008/09...

The Ministry of Water and Housing has embarked on a series of tours to get a first hand look at the ongoing piping programmes across the island as well as to view lands that might be available for housing provisions. The tour in the parish of St. Ann, saw the Minister of Water and Housing, Dr. Horace Chang and representatives...

The Government and Opposition will meet for the third round of talks at Vale Royal tomorrow (July 22), following meetings in January and June of this year. At the last meeting, the issue of crime, particularly as it relates to the witness protection programme, was the main focus of talks between the Government and the Opposition. The Opposition gave its...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Senator the Honourable Don Wehby, on his recent trip to Washington D.C. held wide-ranging discussions with the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and the World Bank (WB). Discussions with the IADB were the primary objective of the trip. Minister Wehby, on the suggestion of His Excellency Alberto Moreno, President...

Twenty-one graduates from a five-week municipal police training course at the Jamaica Constabulary Force Staff College at Twickenham Park, St. Catherine are to assume duties with the St. Catherine, St. Elizabeth, and Manchester Parish Councils. The graduates are the third batch to have completed the Municipal Training Programme, which commenced in 1999. To date, 84 persons have completed training and...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has emphasised that the sustained growth of the economy does not rest solely on the Government, but will be achieved by the collective effort of all Jamaicans, at home and abroad. "It is therefore time for us, to answer the call from various sectors and interest groups of the Jamaican society, for a greater involvement for...

More than 280 children in Clarendon and Manchester are participating in a Jamalco organized three-week Science and Environment Camp, which will end on July 31. They are in the age group 6-11, and are children of Jamalco workers and persons living in the company's mining areas. Officers from the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) have given lessons...

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth, and Sports (MICYS), Mrs. Faith Innerarity has said that the recently concluded 7th Conference of Ministers of Information of the Non-Aligned Movement will strengthen information systems in developing countries like Jamaica, to ensure that the country's ideas and images accurately reflect our people and identity. Mrs. Innerarity made the point during...

As the CARICOM representative within the Rio Group, Jamaica will seek to raise issues of concern to the region, while leveraging high level political contacts to deepen its relations with other Latin American and Caribbean members of the group. This was stated by Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Dr. Ronald Robinson, during...

Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, Senator Warren Newby, has said that a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for inter-ministerial co-ordination between the sponsoring Ministries of the National Youth Policy will be signed shortly. Making his contribution in the State of the Nation Debate in the Senate on July 18, Senator Newby informed that the MoU...

Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, Senator Warren Newby, has informed that during this financial year, the Government would seek to have Youth Ambassadors represented on a wider range of policy advisory bodies. This, he said, was in order to ensure "that the views of young people are better represented in all areas of government...

As the current Chair of the CARIFORUM regional group in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, Jamaica has sought to play a pro-active role in regard to a number of issues, including the sustainable development of ACP states and their gradual integration into the global economy. Making his contribution to the 2008/09 State of the Nation Debate in the...