Moneague, ST. ANN
THE ST. Ann Health Department is warning members of the public not to participate in activities such as boating, fishing and vending in the Moneague 'lake' area of the parish, which has been affected by rising waters.
"The Moneague lake is highly contaminated, as several pit latrines have been submerged, pig pens and poultry houses have been washed out and treated effluent from two sewerage plants is being emptied into sections of the lake," Granville McKenzie, chief public health inspector at the St. Ann Health Department, has pointed out.
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Denbigh, CLARENDON
SOME $500,000 has been donated to the Jamaica 4-H Club movement by the Canadian High Commission, for the upgrading of its food preparation laboratory at the Denbigh 4-H Training Centre, in Clarendon.
The laboratory is a component of a national home economics and food preparation training programme being carried out by the 4-H movement.
André Anderson, Denbigh 4-H Centre manager, said that the laboratory was undergoing renovations, including the installation of a ceiling, valued at about $140,000; tiling work valued at about $105,000, and the installation of cupboards valued at $115,000.
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Port Antonio, PORTLAND
AS THE campaign against praedial larceny gains momentum islandwide, members of the farming community in Portland are strengthening their cooperation with the police to eliminate the problem in the parish.
Hilma Wedderburn, the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) parish manager for Portland, told JIS News that the JAS is strengthening cooperation with the police to include the coordination of activities to identify praedial thieves in the communities, and the staging of training seminars to sensitise farmers about the implications of the Praedial Larceny Act.
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Springfield, CLARENDON
THE JAMAICA Social Investment Fund (JSIF) has recently signed a contract with the 'Gimme-Me-Bit' Rocky Point Springfield Seventh-Day Benevolent Society for the construction of a basic school in south Clarendon.
The Springfield community has secured over $4.9 million from the JSIF for the construction of a two-classroom structure.
This project will also include converting these two rooms into bathroom and kitchen facilities.
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Malvern, ST. ELIZABETH
DONALD SIMPSON, councillor for the Malvern division of the St. Elizabeth Parish council, said that the drought situation in his division had reached crisis
proportions and the residents were trying to find alternative sources to get water for domestic purposes.
Speaking with The Gleaner, in Black River on Thursday, Councillor Simpson said most of the public catchment tanks in the area were without water.
Rayon Dyer
Walderston, MANCHESTER
HUNDREDS OF mourners braved pelting showers of rain, last Saturday, to attend the funeral of the late nurse Elaine Robinson-Clarke, at the Mizpah Moravian Church in Walderston, Manchester.
Nurse Clarke died of lung
cancer, on January 24, in the Percy Junor Hospital, where she worked for many years.
At the time of her death, she was employed to the Bellefield Comprehensive High School.
The mother of three sons and one daughter was described by Matron Jacqueline Pennicook of Percy Junor Hospital as
a quiet person, who worked
very hard.
Byron McDaniel
Alston, CLARENDON
LINVERN WRIGHT, principal of Alston High School in Clarendon, is giving high marks to the Safe Schools Programme, noting that it had helped to reduce the incidence of violence among students.
The school has been a part of the programme since 2004, and according to Mr. Wright, over the two-year period, "the frequency of fights in the school has been reduced because of the intervention of the police ..."
The programme is an initiative of the Education and Health ministries, in partnership with non-government organisations, and was established as a response to escalating violence in schools.
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