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At age 14 when most girls are taken up with music, fashion and friends, Simone had to be concerned about taking care of her new-born baby. A child herself, she was at her wits end when she found out she was pregnant as all she could visualise was failure. Today, 14 years later, Simone has realised her career dream and...

Water and Housing State Minister, Harry Douglas, has announced the appointment of a new board, with island wide scope, to hear rent disputes now being handed by the Corporate Area Rent Assessment Board and Resident Magistrate Courts. Mr. Douglas, who was making his contribution to the 2005/06 Sectoral Debate in Gordon House on July 20, explained that since the closure...

The National Youth Service (NYS) has received some $4 million in sponsorship towards Success Camp 2005, a six-week residential re-orientation and behaviour modification programme for students. The camp is being conducted in two segments and Chairman of the NYS, Keith Duncan, informed that $3 million of the amount, which was given by the Jamaica Securities Dealers Association (JSDA), would be...

Plans are in high gear for the staging of the internationally acclaimed Seville Emancipation Jubilee 2005, at the Seville Heritage Park in St. Ann's Bay. The event, renown for highlighting traditional and oral culture in an invigorating form, will begin on Sunday, July 31 and go through to Emancipation Day on Monday, August 1. It is expected to attract thousand...

Dr. Omar Davies, Minister of Finance and Planning, has said that Jamaican firms seeking to secure funding from multilateral agencies for expansion projects, must have their books and expansion plans of a high standard to withstand the strongest scrutiny. The Minister made this statement in light of the US$105 million financing package, which Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL), the parent company...

The first sitting of the Portmore Municipal Court was held yesterday(July 21), at the Portmore Family Court building in Greater Portmore, St. Catherine. Thirteen cases were presented to the presiding Judge, Resident Magistrate Simone Maddix, for offences ranging from building breaches to illegal garages and car washes. "It's a start, a good move and it will facilitate us getting our...

The Ministry of Local Government, Community Development and Sport is exploring cost-effective ways of training the firemen and women of the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB). "It will cost approximately $1 million to have each person trained in London and so the possibility of having the trainers flown into the island and for us to do the training here are options...

Minister of State for Transport and Works, Dr. Fenton Ferguson, has given the assurance, that work on the railway bridge in St. Margaret's Bay, Portland, which is being repaired to be used as an alternative to the hurricane-damaged Rio Grande overpass, will be completed by the end of this month. The repairs, which began on Thursday (July 14), is being...

Forty-eight groups of farmers in St. Elizabeth and approximately 60 groups from Manchester, are looking forward to the Denbigh Agricultural and Industrial Show, to be held from July 30 to August 1. "St. Elizabeth is gearing up for Denbigh.. looking forward to putting out the best display we can," Second Vice President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Kingsley Clarke...

Judging in the Young Champion Farmer Competition has been completed and the adjudicators are now meeting to collate their points to decide on the winner. Derrick Vermont, Chairman of the National Champion Farmer Competition, told JIS News, that the winner would be announced and garlanded on July 30, the first day of the Denbigh Agricultural and Industrial Show. That day...

The best of the country's livestock will be on display at the 53rd staging of the Denbigh Agricultural and Industrial Show to be held at the Denbigh Showgrounds, Clarendon, from July 30 to August 1. Jasmin Holness, Deputy Director of Research in the Ministry of Agriculture and Chairman of the Denbigh Livestock Exhibits Committee, told JIS News that the competition...

Residents of Santa Cruz, St. Elizabeth can now conduct business more efficiently in their new state of the art post office. The official opening of the post office, held recently, saw scores of residents attending. Guest Speaker at the opening, Minister of Commerce, Science and Technology, Phillip Paulwell, told the residents that "the traditional post office is dying" and that...