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The Ministry of Land and Environment piloted a number of legislative reforms in 2004/05 to promote the effective administration, management, use, preservation, development and control of the island's natural resources. Land and Environment Minister, Dean Peart, who was making his contribution to the 2005/06 Sectoral Debate in Gordon House yesterday (June 21), said that among the laws amended and passed...

Director General of Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), Dr. Barbara Carby, has encouraged the media to continue to reinforce disaster preparedness messages. She noted that while there was a high level of awareness of precautionary information on the path of the public, far too many persons were still dying during disasters such as floods. "The public is...

Hands Across Jamaica for Righteousness has launched a schools' motivation outreach programme, designed to encourage students to adopt the tenets of the national motto, anthem and pledge, as the foundations for building a progressive nation that was free from crime and violence. The programme gets underway in September and "we will be carrying this programme into the schools", said George...

A total of 133 young people from Clarendon, who participated in the Jamaica 4-H Clubs' tractor operation, food & hospitality and citrus production training courses, will be presented with certificates of completion tomorrow (June 23), at a graduation ceremony slated for the 4-H training centre in Denbigh. Minister of Labour and Social Security, Horace Dalley will deliver the main address...

Some 250 hectares (600 acres) of state land at Nonsuch in St. Mary have been identified for the development of an orchard farm. Member of Parliament (MP) for Central St. Mary, Dr. Morais Guy, who made the disclosure during his contribution to the 2005/06 Sectoral Debate in Gordon House yesterday, said that dialogue was ongoing with the Commissioner of Lands...

The Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), has come out in full support of the ongoing protest by sugar industry stakeholders against the European Union's proposed cut in the price of sugar from African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. "The present protest now being carried out by the unions, sugar workers and the (All Island) Cane Farmer's Association is fully endorsed by...

Member of Parliament for Central St. Mary, Dr. Morais Guy has called on fellow parliamentarians to increase efforts to sensitize their constituents about HIV/AIDS. "I am appealing that every time we speak to our constituents we touch on the topic and try and sensitize our people to this dreaded disease," he said, during his contribution to the 2005/06 Sectoral Debate...

The HIV/STI Prevention and Control Unit of the St. Catherine Health Department, has launched a schools' quiz competition, designed to heighten students' awareness of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections. The competition, which involves some 80 students from 12 primary schools in the parish, got underway at the Faith Temple Church Hall in Portmore onJune 21, with Independence City Primary,...

Prime Minister P. J. Patterson said that UN reform must go beyond the Security Council and place the greatest emphasis on the development agenda, including the equitable distribution of the world's resources and changes to the world economic structure to allow all countries to be part of the decision making process. He was speaking at a meeting with the President...

Prime Minister P. J. Patterson said that UN reform must go beyond the Security Council and place the greatest emphasis on the development agenda, including the equitable distribution of the world's resources and changes to the world economic structure to allow all countries to be part of the decision making process. He was speaking at a meeting with the President...

Plans are advanced for the development of a National Hazard Mitigation Policy to improve the country's disaster preparedness and rehabilitative mechanisms. Minister of Land and Environment, Dean Peart, in his contribution to the 2005/06 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on June 21, explained that the policy would entail an assessment of the different types of hazards to which...

Plans are advanced for the development of a National Hazard Mitigation Policy to improve the country's disaster preparedness and rehabilitative mechanisms. Minister of Land and Environment, Dean Peart, in his contribution to the 2005/06 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on June 21, explained that the policy would entail an assessment of the different types of hazards to which...