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Director of Information and Research at the National Council on Drug Abuse, Ellen Campbell-Grizzle, is imploring parents to utilise the counselling services and wealth of information offered by the organisation, to assist in effectively monitoring their children's whereabouts and actions. Mrs. Campbell-Grizzle revealed that increasingly, the agency has been receiving questions from parents, who are worried that their children may...

Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, informed the House of Representatives on Tuesday (Oct.28), that the Government is committed to establishing a Sex Offenders Registry. "The report of a working group, which developed a Sex Offenders Management Policy was submitted on June 19. On July 21, Cabinet considered the report and issued drafting instructions to the Chief Parliamentary Counsel, for the preparation...

The Governor-General, His Excellency, the Most Hon. Professor Sir Kenneth Hall, on Thursday (Oct. 29), presented three judges with their instruments of appointment to higher offices within the judiciary, during a swearing-in ceremony held at King's House. Justice Mahadev Dukharan was confirmed as Judge of the Court of Appeal; His Honour, Mr. Frank Williams, was appointed to act as Puisne...

The enthusiasm generated by Jamaica's record breaking Olympic team to the Beijing Summer Games in China in August continued last weekend, as scores of Jamaican nationals and friends of the Diaspora turned out to participate in activities staged across south Florida, to honour the athletes' achievements. Accolades, punctuated by screams of excitement, filled the air as patrons greeted triple sprint...

Trial plots being used to promote the commercialisation of the breadfruit in Jamaica are showing positive results with the potential to earn $4 million annually from an 800-tree orchard. This is after meeting operation and production costs and selling the fruit on the local market. Trees on three experimental plots of 45 acres combined in the parishes of St. James,...

The Ministry of Labour and Social Security, is one step closer in fulfilling its promise to implement, during the course of this fiscal year, initiatives to promote training and employment for youths across Jamaica. This, as the Ministry on October 22 launched its Special Youth Employment and Training Project (SYEAT), the first of three initiatives proposed by the Minister of...

Minister of Education, Andrew Holness, has emphasised that the Government does not view parenting as an optional function, but one that is critical to national development. The Minister was speaking at the launch of Parent Month, held at the Ministry in Kingston, yesterday (October 29). Parent Month will be observed in November, under the theme: 'Parenting...Right from the Start'. "In...

Deputy Director of Nursing Services at the St. Ann's Bay Hospital, Marcia Lafayette, has commended the Jamaica Enrolled Assistant Nurses' Association, for its work and for making an invaluable contribution to the well-being of the people of Jamaica. "As a group you have worked assiduously to help in achieving the goals and objectives of the Ministry of Health and Environment....

Minister of Energy, Clive Mullings, has re-emphasised that the E10 team has put in place the necessary systems to ensure quality assurance, and to maintain the integrity of the soon to be introduced E10 fuel. "The assurances are there, we have the Petroleum Control Act, we have expanded our Inspectorate and there is going to be random testing. There will...

National Security Minister, Senator Colonel Trevor MacMillan, has emphasised the importance of the rehabilitation of inmates in the island's correctional facilities, in the thrust to curtail crime and violence. He contends that appropriate rehabilitation programmes and activities undertaken in correctional facilities, could go a far way in ensuring that individuals, particularly first time offenders, do not return to a life...

Some 70 representatives of regional law enforcement and regulatory agencies, are currently participating in a three-day workshop, being held at the Half Moon Hotel in Montego Bay, St. James, which aims to equip them to better understand and counter the activities associated with unregulated investment schemes. The workshop, which commenced on Wednesday (Oct. 29), is being jointly staged by the...

Water and Housing Minister, Dr. Horace Chang, has underscored the potential dangers likely to result from the wanton damage and destruction of the country's watershed areas, by persons engaged in poor farming practices, and construction activities. Speaking at a Land Surveyors Association of Jamaica (LSAJ) seminar, commemorating the organisation's 80th anniversary on the theme: "The Contribution of the Surveying Profession...