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The country's adolescents and youths are being urged to take serious responsibility for their sexual and reproductive health to avoid unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STI).
The appeal came from Acting Director, Social ...
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Minister without Portfolio (with responsibility for Housing), Hon. Dr. Morais Guy, said this year, the Ministry will be pursuing avenues to separate the land titling process from infrastructure.
The Minister said this action would free up the...
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Minister of Transport, Works and Housing, Dr. the Hon. Omar Davies, is encouraging local businesses to identify ways of collaborating with their Chinese counterparts in order to exploit opportunities from investment projects here and overseas.
He u...
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Minister of State for Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Colin Fagan, said that focus will be placed on the upgrading and modernization of the country’s markets to make them more appealing to the consumers they serve.
He n...
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State Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. Arnaldo Brown, says he will be working closely with the Ministry of Housing to regularise a number of settlements within his East Central St. Catherine constituency.
Mr. Brown, who made the...
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The Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) intends to have in place, a comprehensive development plan for the land at Twickenham Park, which will include the design for a Training Institution, Divisional Headquarters for St. Catherine and the Vehicle Maintenance D...
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Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Roger Clarke, has urged the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) to reposition itself, in order to better serve its members, and play a more leading role in advancing the local sector.
Addressing the organisat...
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The Board of Supervision of the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development has acquired the Client Service Tracker Software, to assist in developing the Information Identification Homeless Database System (IIHS), to track the homeless.
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Several of the island's Spanish teachers are participating in a six-day intensive training workshop aimed at optimising their skills in the language.
The workshop, which began on Monday (July 9), is being conducted entirely in Spanish, and will...
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Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. Arnaldo Brown, said he is committed to working with the Ministry of Education to provide quality education for the young people residing in his East Central St. Catherine constituency.
S...
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A company has been recommended to remove and dispose of the asbestos material at the Poor Relief Department, in the sum of $474,408.
Minister of State in the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Colin Fagan, made the d...
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Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Roger Clarke, says there has been an overwhelming response by farmers to the Ministry’s multi-million ginger project, currently being implemented across the island.
Speaking at the Jamaica Agricultural...
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Minister with responsibility for Housing, Hon. Dr. Morais Guy, says the Government will be taking steps to strengthen the legislative and policy framework governing mortgages, in an attempt to revitalise the housing market.
Dr. Guy made the disclos...
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State Minister for Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Sharon Ffolkes-Abrahams, is encouraging companies to make international standards commonplace in their industries as a means of managing energy usage.
She was speaking on Thursday July 12 a...
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A National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) investigation has found that the noxious fume emission, which resulted in the closure of the Portmore leg of Highway 2000 and the Port Henderson Road in St. Catherine on June 28, was petroleum-based.
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The Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) is currently in initial discussions with key stakeholders in the development area, towards the establishment of Papine as a University Town.
This was disclosed by Minister of State in the Ministry of L...
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Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, says Jamaica’s participation in the rapidly growing global health export sector is crucial to the country’s sustainable health development.
He said health care services are recognised as bei...
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Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, says that Epidemiology studies have been completed and the results have justified the decision to establish a state-of-the art Child and Adolescent Hospital in western Jamaica.
“We have identified...
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The Ministry of Health has secured funding from the World Bank to develop a National Strategic Plan for National Health Information System strengthening and modernisation, over the six-month period from July to December 2012.
This was disclosed by ...
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Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton, says the strategic approach towards exporting to China, should focus on “high value added, niche market products that China does not produce."
Mr. Hylton pointed o...