The country’s tourist arrivals is expected to receive a boost with the inaugural staging of an exciting new music event Soul in the Sun Music Festival set to take place in the second city, Montego Bay, October 10 – 12,…
Month: September 2014
Soul In The Sun To Boost Arrivals
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My Chikungunya Chronicles
I am the third person in my household to ‘catch’ the dreaded chikungunya virus. My mother and brother had it simultaneously about a month ago, and since a good amount of time had passed, and we had turned the whole…
A Prostate Cancer Fact Sheet
September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. What is prostate cancer? Prostate cancer is typically a very slow growing tumor in the prostate gland, which is that part of the male reproductive system that produces the majority of seminal fluid that…
Posted in #diGoftheday, Health Tagged with: Jamaica, Prostate Awareness Day, prostate cancer, Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
6 Things You Need To Know Today – September 30, 2014
Chik-V Haven – Seaview Among Areas Hardest Hit By Virus. Violet Thompson was concerned but not particularly worried upon realising her baby grandson had a slight fever yesterday morning… Read more at Jamaica-Gleaner.com Church To Flock Parliament For Sex Talk. Christians from…
Posted in 6 Things You Need To Know Today, News Tagged with: Aedes aegypti mosquito, Aubyn Ferguson, Caribbean HIV/Training Network, caroteinoids, CAUSE, CHART, Chikungunya virus, Church of God in Jamaica, diet, domestic violence, Federation of International Hockey, FIH, FIH World League, Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson, Horace Glades, immune system, Jamaica, Jamaica Association of Full Gospel Churches, Jamaica Association of Independent Churches, Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, Jamaica Churches Action Uniting Society for Emancipation, Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy Society, Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Jamaica Evangelical Alliance, Jamaica Pentecostal Union, Jamaica Urban Transit Company, JCHS, Judicial Review Court, JUTC, Mona Hockey Field, mosquito infestation, mosquito-breeding sites, National Solid Waste Management Authority, NSWMA, ODPEM, Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management, Office of Utilities Regulation, OUR, Percival Stewart, Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica, probiotics, Professor Brendan Bain, PSOJ, PSOJ President Christopher Zacca, Reverend Stevenson Samuels, Rural Transit Company Limited, Seaview Gardens, selenium, sexual immorality, sexual offences, Transport Authority, Trevor Fearon, University of the West Indies, UWI, vitamin C, vitamin E, zinc
6 Facts About Universal Service Fund
The Universal Service Fund (USF) mission is to facilitate the provision of universal access to the information superhighway by stimulating and accelerating the deployment of broadband services island-wide. This is facilitated through the effective collection and astute management of the…
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International Coffee Day – Jamaica’s Coffee Story
Historical Background Of Coffee In Jamaica Coffee production began in Jamaica in 1728 when the then governor of Jamaica, Sir Nicholas Lawes, brought approximately eight coffee seedlings from Martinique. Governor Lawes planted those seedlings at Temple Hall in St Andrew,…
Posted in #diGoftheday, Food & Beverage, Recipes, Special Tagged with: Alzheimer's, caffeine, CIB, coffee, coffee farms, Coffee Industry Board, Haitian Revolution, International Coffee Organisation, Martinique, Parkinson's, recipes, Sir Nicholas Lawes, Temple Hall
6 Things You Need To Know Today – September 29, 2014
Ferguson: Public Health-Care System Ready For Increase In Chik-V Cases. Amid growing anxiety over the outbreak of the chikungunya virus (Chik-V) in Jamaica, Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson delivered a sobering reminder last night that the number of cases is expected…
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5 Things To Do This Weekend
TGIF! It’s the start of the weekend, meaning you can sleep in late and while away some hours until you have to ‘face reality’ again, come Monday. If you don’t want to while away those hours at home, we have…
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6 Things You Need To Know Today – September 26, 2014
Chik-V ‘Numbers Game’ Over. With widespread concerns that the Ministry of Health is grossly under-reporting the impact of the chikungunya virus (chik-V) on Jamaica, Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson has said that a decision had been made to discontinue the announcement…
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Then & Now: Jamaica’s Commercial Banks
Latest data from the Bank of Jamaica show NCB as the biggest bank in Jamaica, as measured by assets. Of the $810 billion in banking assets in Jamaica, NCB held $352 billion, or 43 per cent of the total. Scotia…
Posted in About Jamaica, Business, Economy, Special Tagged with: Bank of London & Montreal, Bank of Nova Scotia, Banking Sector, Barclays Bank, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Commercial Banks, Financial Institutions, First Caribbean International Bank, First Global Bank, First National City Bank, Handbook of Jamaica, National Commercial Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, Sagicor Bank
