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The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management is reporting that there are currently two hundred and forty two (242) persons sheltering in ten shelters in the parishes of St Catherine and Kingston & St Andrew from approximately fifty communities. They are outlined as follows: St. Catherine HEART Academy - 7 personsGwen Neal Basic School - 12 persons Spanish Town...

Minister of Education, Youth and Culture, Maxine Henry-Wilson has said that the government's school building programme was being fast-tracked to satisfy the demand for some 235,000 school-places in the shortest possible time.She made the disclosure while addressing stakeholders and community leaders at a Social Development Commission (SDC) meeting at their local office in Morant Bay St. Thomas on recently. Mrs....

Executive Director of the Jamaica 4-H Clubs, Lenworth Fulton is urging the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) to more comprehensively include Jamaican events in its international marketing campaigns. Making reference to the Jamaica 4-H Clubs' upcoming event 'Nyammins and Jammins' which gets underway on Heritage Day, Monday, October 17, Mr. Fulton stated, that it was events such as these that showcased...

Jamaica's Tony Becca, one of the Caribbean's top sports writers has been inducted into the Cricket Hall of Fame in Hartford, Connecticut.This year's class of inductees also included Antigua and West Indies great fast bowler Anderson Montgomery, Everton 'Andy' Roberts, India's leg spin wizard Bhagwat Chandrasekhar and the late Alvin 'Al' Watson, Hubert Carlyle Miller and Barbara P. Lindo for...

The HEART Trust/ NTA has been working in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Ocho Rios and the Ocho Rios Baptist Church in an effort to train unskilled young people in and around the area to better equip them for the job market. "Over 35 per cent of the youngsters in and around Ocho Rios are unemployed and we are...

National Heritage Week is a time to treasure the great moments that have made us so special as a nation and a people. It is also a time to treasure the great people who have played a pivotal role in charting the course of our future.Our heroes were ordinary people who did extraordinary things to improve the quality of life...

The regulations for the Companies' Rules Resolution 2005, have been approved by the Senate after the debate was deferred to allow for further clarification following concerns raised by Opposition Senators. At the time Opposition Senators Shirley Williams and Arthur Williams expressed concerns over Section Two of the regulations which speaks to the conditions under which applications by companies to be...

Minister of Education, Youth and Culture, Maxine Henry-Wilson, has made an impassioned plea to residents of communities surrounding schools to adopt these institutions and ensure their protection. The Minister noted that because communities were the primary beneficiaries of the education system, they had a duty to ensure that schools continued to function effectively. "We know that schools face particular challenges...

Debate on the revolutionary Maintenance Bill was discontinued yesterday (October 13) in the Senate, to allow for further consensus on the contents of the provision and for consultations with stakeholders. Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Senator A.J. Nicholson, who piloted the Bill, said the intention was to circulate proposed amendments to various women's groups, churches and other concerned parties...

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), through its National Community Development Project (NCDP), expended more than $150 million to assist scores of basic, primary and all-age schools that suffered varying degrees of damage following the passage of Hurricane Ivan last year. As contained in the agency's 2004/05 report, more than 100 educational institutions were targeted by JSIF to receive financial...

A total of 1,341 small citrus farmers have so far registered for financial assistance under the Ministry of Agriculture's $10 million Special Assistance Programme (SAP). The programme was launched in April of this year to help farmers to access loans and materials to resuscitate their farms. Coordinator of the Citrus Replanting Project, Dr. Florence Young, told JIS News that prior...

Governor General Sir Howard Cooke has expressed the opinion that the increase in natural disasters happening around the world, has created an urgency for everyone to be more conscious of their responsibility to respect and protect the environment. He said that with proper environmental practices, persons and countries could be prepared as well as prevent some of these disasters. The...