Parliament to Host International Conference on Legislative Oversight
The Houses of Parliament will next week host an international conference aimed at strengthening the capacity of Parliaments to carry out their oversight of public expenditure. The conference will be held from June 2-4, 2015 at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel and is being hosted in collaboration with the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme […]
Prime Minister to Speak on Child Safety and Security on May 28
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, will be the main speaker at a community meeting scheduled to take place on Thursday, May 28, at the Edwin Allen Comprehensive High School in Clarendon, beginning at 3:30 p.m. The meeting, organised by the Ministry of Youth and Culture and held under the aegis of the […]
Gov’t Takes Action to Reduce Misery Level of Patients
The Government is taking action to reduce the misery level of patients who utilize public health services. Speaking at a JIS ‘Think Tank’ on Wednesday, May 27, Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, disclosed that strategies are being put in place to improve the client experience in all public health facilities. “I have instructed […]
Cockpit Country – Shafted and Blasted?
By all appearances, we the people, and the delicate natural resource called the Cockpit Country, are being shafted again by our Government. I see that the relentless mining plans are now going ahead again – as usual without regard to hard fought for past assurances and decisions. We, the concerned, intelligent, ordinary (and extraordinary!) people […]
Help Team Jamaica get to the Taste of the Caribbean 2015
The annual Taste of the Caribbean Culinary Competition, the region’s premier culinary showcase is scheduled for the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Miami, Florida, June 12 – 15, 2015. Team Jamaica is slated to depart the island on the afternoon of June 10, 2015 for six days to compete in this educational event. Historically, over the past […]
Jamaican Women of Florida (JWOF) Board responds to Jamaica Observer article on Pamella Watson
Letter To The Editor Jamaica Observer, Jamaica The Board of Directors of the Jamaican Women of Florida responds to an article in your On-Line Edition of the Jamaica Observer, May 22, 2015 “ J’can busted in US for ‘defrauding’ gov’t, clients”. The lead paragraph of your story read, “Pamella Watson, Treasurer of the Jamaican Women of Florida […]
Climate Change Ministry Beautifies Half-Way-Tree Road Premises
Staff of the Ministry of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change used Labour Day 2015 to clean and beauty its offices at 16a Half-Way-Tree Road. Five offices operating under the Ministry are located at the premises. These are: Land Administration and Management Programme (LAMP), Environment and Risk Management Division, Planning and Policy Directorate, Land Directorate, […]
Sam Sharpe Remembered May 23
National Hero and leader of the 1831 Christmas Rebellion, Rt. Excellent Samuel Sharpe, was honoured on May 23, at a floral tribute and ceremony, held in the square named in his honour in Montego Bay. The National Hero was among the more than 500 slaves who lost their lives for participating in Jamaica’s first organized […]
Gov’t to Roll Out Vector Control Programme to Prevent Zika Virus
The Government will shortly roll out an integrated vector control programme to prevent the Zika virus from reaching the shores of Jamaica, and to step up a public education campaign on the disease. The virus, which has caused a recent health scare in the South American country of Brazil, is spread by the bite of […]
Minister Pickersgill Urges Residents To Pay Their Water Bills
Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill, is urging residents of West Central St. James, in particular, and the parish in general, to pay their water bills on time. Addressing a ceremony in Gutters, Granville, in St. James, where a water supply system was officially commissioned into service on May 22, […]