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Executive Director of the RISE Life Management Services (formerly Addiction Alert), Sonita Morin Abrahams, has said that the social intervention programmes offered through the Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP) has been very beneficial to the various communities in which it were implemented. The RISE Life Management Services received a five-year grant from the Ministry of National Security to undertake...

Cabinet has given drafting instructions for the Ministry of Education and Youth to establish the National Library of Jamaica Bill (2007). The Bill will see to the establishment of the National Library of Jamaica as an independent institution with primary responsibility to collect, catalogue, preserve and facilitate access to documents published in Jamaica, documents about Jamaica, and documents published by...

Lack of early stimulation in the home has been found to be the root cause of learning disabilities affecting children, who are seen at the Mico College Child Assessment and Research in Education (CARE) Centre. Clinical psychologist, Ghia Townsend, tells JIS News that this trend became evident during home investigations conducted by the centre's social workers. "Based on trends found...

Officers from the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) met with their British military counterparts in the United Kingdom (UK) last week to discuss plans to have a JDF contingent come to the UK in July and August 2007 to assist the army in its public duties and ceremonial guard mounts. The intention is for the JDF contingent to be in the...

On Labour Day (May 23), residents of Meadowbrook Estate and Forest Hills Gardens in Kingston will work together to beautify their communities. This combined effort is in keeping with the national Labour Day theme: 'Honouring Our Ancestors. Strengthening Communities'. Speaking with JIS News, Lilhan Davis, Public Relations Officer for the combined Citizens' Association, said that, "we want to beautify the...

A total of 12 projects have so far been registered with the Portland Labour Day Committee for Labour Day on May 23. The activities, which include the building of bus sheds, painting of schools, paving of roads and construction of play areas, are in addition to the parish project, which is the cleaning and beautification of public cemeteries in Port...

As part of activities for Labour Day 2007, representatives of the Registrar General's Department (RGD) will be at the Bath Botanical Gardens in St. Thomas, the venue for the national project, to provide persons with the opportunity to apply for copies of birth, death and marriage certificates. Speaking with JIS News, Marketing and Planning Manager of the RGD, Nicole Robinson,...

The 10 finalists in the 2007 Jamaica Popular Song Competition were presented to the public at the launch of the competition and album, at the Asylum Night Club in New Kingston on May 17. Chairman of the Jamaica Popular Song Steering Committee, Junior Lincoln noted that the competition "has afforded Jamaican singers, songwriters and producers the opportunity to develop and...

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) is to spend $24 million to upgrade the water supply system serving the communities of Shotover, Ranch Hill and Stony Hill in Portland. An agreement for the project was signed by JSIF and the Benevolent Society representing the communities, in the district of Norwich in Portland on Wednesday, May 15. Under the agreement, the...

The Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank has announced that it has received an initial advance of funds from the National Insurance Fund (NIF), under the loan scheme geared towards small and medium size enterprises for working capital and fixed asset purchases. The bank will therefore now begin to accept loan applications from eligible borrowers under the NIF loan scheme. Eligible borrowers must...

The board of governors of 24 schools within the Ministry of Education and Youth regions four and five were recently recognized for outstanding work, by the National Council on Education (NCE). At the School Management Awards Ceremony held at the Rose Hall Resort and Country Club, 15 school boards from region four, which comprises the parishes of St. James, Hanover...

The Registrar General's Department (RGD) is stepping up its public education campaign this month (May), which is observed as Child Month, to inform Jamaicans of the importance of birth registration. Throughout the month, representatives of the RGD's Mobile Outreach Team will make a number of stops at several schools and health centres across the island. So far, the outreach team...