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Landowners in St. Elizabeth will soon benefit from the Land Administration and Management Programme (LAMP), when the pilot programme in St. Catherine comes to an end next year. "LAMP represents an ideal that can be replicated in other areas and as such a project of this nature will have longstanding impact and range," Lisa Campbell, Legal Officer at LAMP told...

Assistant Superintendent at the Fire Prevention Division of the Jamaica Fire Brigade, Floyd McLean, is appealing to householders to make contingency plans to deal with an outbreak of fire. This is particularly important, as a house can reach a critical point in as little as two and a half minutes, when it becomes too hot for occupancy or laden with...

National Security Minister, Dr. Peter Phillips has said that the acquisition of a new maritime vessel by the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Coast Guard should boost the JDF's capability to protect the island's sea borders, which has long been an attractive transhipment location for criminal activities. He pointed out that the vessel, which has been named HMJS Cornwall, represented a...

The National Works Agency (NWA) will spend $94.5 million on Phase 2 of its Disaster Mitigation Programme, as it intensifies work to alleviate the effects of heavy and persistent rains associated with the active 2005 hurricane season and beyond. Speaking with JIS News, Petra-kene Williams, Acting Communications and Customer Services Manager at the NWA, outlined the extent of work to...

Work on the first phase of the National Works Agency's (NWA) Disaster Mitigation Programme is in its final stage, with all projects across the island expected to be completed within the next few weeks. The first phase of the Programme, which was started earlier this year, involved flood mitigation works on drains and gullies along the main road network, valued...

The more than 1,600 students and 43 staff members at the Barracks Road Primary School in Montego Bay, St. James are now enjoying more spacious surroundings, with the opening of an additional five classrooms and other facilities at that institution yesterday (Oct. 27). Two of the classrooms were built through the Parent Teachers' Association (PTA) in partnership with the USAID,...

A number of schools in St. Catherine and St. Andrew are to benefit from a $14 million injection of capital into those parishes for major projects. The money will be used for social intervention projects in four primary and early childhood institutions in rural St. Catherine and St. Andrew, and will involve the rehabilitation and construction of sanitary facilities, property...

The Meteorological Service has forecast continued rainfall over the next three days. This means that because of the current saturation of the soil, even small amounts of rainfall could cause flooding and conditions in many areas might deteriorate further. The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) is advising residents who live in areas, which were flooded or are...

The agriculture sector in Portland has suffered more than $5 million worth of damage as a result of recent heavy rains associated with Hurricane Wilma. According to preliminary estimates prepared by the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), the majority of the damage involved vegetables, condiments, pulses and livestock. The estimates indicate that some $3.2 million worth of destruction was done...

The Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) has been engaged in fruitful dialogue with Asian countries such as Japan and South Korea to establish their technologies in Jamaica, to transform our agricultural industry. President of the JAS, Senator Norman Grant told JIS News that during his recent visit to Japan, the concept of a development model that would convert agricultural products and...

Persons in the parish of Portland who are suffering from visual defects are being assisted by the Rotary Club of Port Antonio through a Rotary Awareness Blindness Clinic, which is now being conducted at 29 Harbour Street in Port Antonio. The Rotary Club has had a long history of hosting eye clinics for needy persons, having first begun the project...

Governor-General, His Excellency, the Most Hon. Sir Howard Cooke met briefly with Canada's Governor-General, Her Excellency the Rt. Hon. Micha