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Cabinet has given approval for the Port Authority of Jamaica to enter into a follow-on maintenance contract with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of California in the United States. Speaking at Wednesday's (Nov. 5) post-Cabinet media briefing at Jamaica House, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Senator Dwight Nelson, said the contract, valued at...

Parliamentary Secretary with responsibility for Youth in the Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, Senator Warren Newby, has urged the nation's youth to become more involved in social activities. He made the appeal at a recent JIS Think Tank session, held to inform the nation of the activities planned in observance of National Youth Month, which is being observed...

The Public Broadcasting Corporation of Jamaica (PBCJ) will shortly develop a five- minute programme on missing persons in Jamaica as a means of educating the public about abductions. "On the PBCJ we currently have a show on missing persons called 'Missing' which is approximately 15 to 20 minutes long. What we plan to do is cut it down to about...

Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, has outlined initiatives geared at enhancing the country's tourism product and improving service within the industry. Speaking at a recent press briefing held at the Ministry on Dominica Drive in New Kingston, the Tourism Minister pointed out that the various initiatives, which include youth employment, community tourism, and small business development and entrepreneurship, are aimed...

The Inter-American Institute for Co-operation on Agriculture (IICA) has secured funding from the European Union (EU), to develop an agro-tourism project, to be implemented in the Buff Bay Valley in Portland. IICA's representative in Jamaica, Cynthia Currie, who made the announcement during a ceremony to launch 'IICA Day' at the agency's headquarters in Kingston, yesterday (Nov.7) said that at the...

The Jamaica Customer Service Association (JaCSA) will be hosting its sixth annual conference at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel on November 11 and 12. Dubbed, 'Celebrating Gold! Ignite a National Spirit of Service', the aim of the conference is to sustain the Beijing experience by honing customer service skills in order to present the best of Jamaica to the world....

Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Louis Moyston has called on citizens of St. Thomas to start a fund raising drive aimed at repairing the Morant Bay Courthouse. "The Temple University, each year they come to St. Thomas to study and I think that many more universities will be coming. I think it is going to be...

As the nation observes National Drug Awareness Month in November, the National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA) is working hard to make researching the subject easier. The Council's recently launched online library service, www.ncdainfo.com, is a step in this direction. In September, the NCDA launched this service as part of the efforts to increase utilization of, and access to its...

Guyana is to supply Jamaica with 60,000 tonnes of rice in 2009. The arrangement was detailed in a Memorandum of Understanding signed in Georgetown between the Government of Guyana and the Government of Jamaica on Friday (November 7) with the Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, the Honourable Karl Samuda signing on behalf of the Government of Jamaica and the...

A number of issues raised by CARICOM States, including Jamaica, at the Americas Competitiveness Forum (ACF), held in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States of America (USA), from August 17-19, will be followed up. This undertaking has been given by the United States Secretary of Commerce, Carlos M. Gutierrez, according to Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth...

Education Minister, Andrew Holness, is urging educators, who are yet to attain competence in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to do so, as this will serve to lessen the digital divide, and guide and improve the decision- making process within the sector. Speaking at the launch of the Jamaica School Administrative System (JSAS) 7.0) software, at the Drews Avenue Primary...

Two dairy farmers have expressed optimism that they will be able to restore their production to former levels, with the assistance of funds obtained under a concessionary loan facility for pasture and herd development. The facility falls under the recently launched dairy sub-sector revitalisation project. The two farmers, Ingram Wedderburn and Oral Rayson made the disclosure in an interview with...