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Jamaica's High Commissioner to Canada, His Excellency Carl Marshall, has praised former Consul General Vivia Betton, for her work in strengthening bilateral relations between Canada and Jamaica. "Miss Betton has done much to strengthen the bilateral relations between Canada and Jamaica, both in how she has managed those aspects of international relations and her adroitness in the management of personal...

Jamaica has been appointed Chair of the Executive Committee of the Western Hemisphere Transportation Initiative (WHTI), a group comprising Ministers responsible for transportation throughout the Caribbean region and the Americas. Minister of Transport and Works, Robert Pickersgill made this announcement at yesterday's (Sept. 14) JIS Think Tank, as he provided an overview of his recent trip to Rio de Janeiro,...

Parents of hearing-impaired children have come together to form a lobby group to press for better conditions for their children, in addition to changes to education and social services to meet their children's special needs. Chief among the issues for which the group will be advocating are; the provision of insurance coverage for hearing aids and for the public at...

Prime Minister P.J. Patterson in his address at the 60th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday (Sept. 14), said developed countries should do more to assist developing countries achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals by 2015. The Prime Minister was speaking on behalf of some 137 developing countries, in his capacity as Chairman of the Group of...

Prime Minister P. J. Patterson has offered assistance to the United States for recovery efforts in the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Mr. Patterson made this announcement when he appeared as a guest on NBC's 'Today Show' on Wednesday September 14. He said 30 members of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Engineering Corps would be made available....

His Excellency the Governor-General, Sir Howard Cooke, accompanied by his Aide-de-Camp will be visiting Albany, New York from September 15-19, at the invitation of Hartwick College and the First United Presbyterian Church. The Governor-General will be conferred with an Honourary Degree as the College celebrates its "histotoric and wide-ranging connections to the countries of the Caribbean". He will also be...

Minister of Local Government, Community Development and Sport, Portia Simpson Miller has said that the leadership of the Jamaica Fire Brigade was comfortable with the new trucks that were being acquired for the fire service and has asked that the Ministry move quickly to complete the negotiations for the procurement of the vehicles. Mrs. Simpson Miller was responding to questions...

As the government continues to increase public access to official documents, the Ministry of Land and Environment today (Sept.14) launched its website and Access to Information Centre. At the launching ceremony held at the Ministry's Half-Way Tree Road offices in Kingston, Land and Environment Minister, Dean Peart, urged the public to make full use of the information available on the...

State Minister for Agriculture, Errol Ennis has charged banana producers to find creative ways to transform the industry, in light of the World Trade Organization's (WTO) recent ruling against the European Union's tariff regime, which favoured African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States. The State Minister, who was addressing the annual general meeting of the Banana Export Company (BECO) today (Sept.14)...

Ambassador Byron Blake, Jamaica's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) has challenged international agricultural research and development institutions to do more to alleviate poverty among the least developed and developing countries of the world. Ambassador Blake, who was addressing a G-77 luncheon at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Tuesday (Sept.13), charged representatives of the Food...

Residents of the greater Mandeville communities of Greenvale, George Reid, Hatfield, Mike Town, Balvenie, Brumalia and Dunrobin are being invited to participate in the annual health week activities being organised by the Andrews Memorial United Church in Manchester. The week of observance will be held from Sunday, October 9 to Friday, October 14 on the church grounds situated at the...

Recent high school graduates, who are considering a career in the maritime industry, are being advised to apply now to pursue a course of study in the next academic year at the Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMI). Egbert Gallimore, Deputy Executive Director of the Institute, told JIS News, that because there was limited space in the programmes, persons are encouraged to...