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Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government will meet in Montego Bay on September 6 to put the finishing touches on the Venezuelan PetroCaribe Initiative. Heads of all countries, which signed the PetroCaribe Agreement at Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela on June 29, will sign final documents with Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, giving effect to the PetroCaribe agreement between these countries and...

Glowing tributes were paid to two Cuban doctors serving in Portland for the past three years, during a farewell function held in their honour at the Old Port Antonio Marina on Thursday, September 1. They are Drs. Edwardo Castanada and Francisco Silva Torres, who were assigned to the Portland Health Department since 2002 and performed duties at the clinics in...

Five citizens from the county of Cornwall have been presented with the 2005 Governor General Achievement award for outstanding contribution to community development. The awardees are: David Henry (Hanover), Wilfred Nembhard (St. Elizabeth), Lincoln James (St. James), Cosmond Jackson (Westmoreland) and Beryl McClean (Trelawny). At the presentation ceremony held on August 31 at the Invercauld Hotel and Great House in...

The government of Jamaica will be strengthening its cooperation with the Metropolitan Police Service of the United Kingdom (Scotland Yard) as both countries step up the fight against the transnational scourges of organized crime and terrorism. Minister of National Security, Dr. Peter Phillips, who made the disclosure at a press conference held at his Oxford Road offices in Kingston yesterday...

The United Kingdom (UK) Metropolitan Police Service (Scotland Yard) has offered to assist Jamaica and other Caribbean countries with their security preparations for Cricket World Cup 2007. Minister of National Security, Dr. Peter Phillips, made the disclosure at a joint press conference with Commissioner of the UK Metropolitan Police Service Sir Ian Blair, at the Ministry's Oxford Road offices in...

Twelve-year old Triciana McBean has been awarded a $50,000 scholarship by the St. James 4-H Advisory Council to assist with her secondary school education over the next five years. Triciana is a former student of Vaughnsfield Primary and Infant School, where she was an outstanding student and 4-H clubbite. She will be attending the prestigious Montego Bay High School in...

A key element in the increase in Jamaica's tourism arrivals over the years, has been the high quality of the country's public health system, which gives visitors to the island a comfortable feeling about their health and safety, said Dr. Rao Ponnada, Medical Officer of Health (MOH) with the St. James Public Health Services. He was speaking at the St....

The high cost of utilities, rapid increase in the fuel rate, crime and violence and HIV/AIDS at the workplace, are among the top agenda items for National Employer's Month, which got underway yesterday (Sept. 1). Other topics for discussion are: the social partnership; the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) and the challenges facing sugar and banana producers. JEF's president...

Some 244 students from small communities in and around the Essex Valley region of St. Elizabeth have received back-to-school assistance worth $2.5 million from Alumina Partners of Jamaica (ALPART). Public Relations Manager at ALPART, Lance Neita told JIS News that this was not the first time that the company was engaging in such a venture. "This is very much in...

Minister of State for Education, Youth and Culture, Dr. Donald Rhodd, has said that the government of Jamaica, through its various youth programme was providing interventions for the empowerment of young people. These various initiatives, which are being undertaken by the agencies such as the Heart Trust NTA, National Youth Service, (NYS) and the National Centre for Youth Development (NCYD)...

Governor General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Howard Cooke has called on Jamaicans at home and overseas to fully participate in efforts to reclaim the sense of patriotism and unity that seems absent in the country. Sir Howard issued the appeal today (September 1) as he launched Jamaica Homecoming Week 2005 (October 15 to October 22), at a press...

The nearly 350 Jamaican hotel workers, who are employed at three properties in Mississippi, United States, are reportedly safe in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and have been relocated to shelters. Workers were stationed at three hotel properties in Mississippi - two in the city of Biloxi, and one in Gulfport. All three hotels sustained major damage and have since...