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The Girl Guides Association of Jamaica is about volunteerism and redirection for young women, and the organisation wants Jamaica to know that it is still in service. Girl Guides has impacted thousands of lives over the decades, and it is all thanks...
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Four beneficiaries have collectively received a donation of $500,000 from the Sagicor Foundation, at the recent Prime Minister’s National Youth Awards for Excellence. The event which took place last Saturday, at the lawns of Jamaica House,...
TORONTO: Seventy years ago, a 35-member delegation, led by community icon, Barbados-born Donald Willard Moore, which included Jamaican leaders Bromley Armstrong, Harry Gairey Sr, and Stanley Grizzle, who was of Jamaican heritage, travelled to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Labour and Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles Jr says that, as part of ongoing efforts to improve service delivery for the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), two technical working groups will be...
WESTERN BUREAU: The proposed merger between the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) and the Fair Trading Commission (FTC), which was announced by Minister of Industry Investment and Commerce, Aubyn Hill, last year, is still in the making and should...
NEW YORK, NY: President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and chairman of CARICOM, Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, has again called on the world community to help the people of Haiti. Addressing an awards function put on by The American Foundation of...
WESTERN BUREAU Route taxi and bus operators in Westmoreland have welcomed the relocation of the Savanna-la-Mar-based public transportation centre from Barracks Road to Beckford Street. “We just have to move with the programme because there is no...
WESTERN BUREAU: With clear skies once again becoming the norm in the communities neighbouring St James’ Retirement dumping facility, executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) Audley Gordon is calling on residents...
An unidentified man was shot and killed in St James on Friday evening. The man, who is said to have been a resident of Salt Spring in the parish, was reportedly attacked while sitting on a motorbike in front of a gas station in Ironshore....
SANTA ROSA, California (AP) — Temporary farmworkers will have more legal protections against employer retaliation, unsafe working conditions, illegal recruitment practices and other abuses under a Labor Department rule announced Friday...
In a tangible demonstration of community empowerment, Jennifer Brown, affectionately called Miss Jenny, unveiled the culmination of her philanthropic work in Norwood, St James: the Miss Jenny Homework Centre. Constructed through the grant awarded...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has strongly condemned Thursday's killing of a schoolboy in Grange Hill, Westmoreland. Sixteen-year-old Carson Bennett, a student of Grange Hill High school was reportedly killed when rival gangs engaged in a...
The Ministry of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport has taken another step in the implementation of the new Road Traffic Act, with the swearing in of the Road Traffic Appeal Tribunal. The swearing in took place at the ministry's...
The Island Traffic Authority is reporting that its depots are currently unable to issue certificates of fitness to drivers due to challenges with its system. The authority says motorists who go to renew their fitness certificates will have their...
Opposition Junior Spokesperson on Citizen Security Jouvaughnie Byfield is condemning Thursday's shooting in Grange Hill, Westmoreland in which two high school students were shot, one fatally. Killed was 16-year-old Carson Barrett, a student of...
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Floyd Green, says there are no plans to use the Agricultural Marketing Corporation (AMC) complex for another purpose. He made the disclosure during Wednesday's post-Cabinet press briefing at...
