PORTMORE WEBSITE e-News Publication Date: Febrary 13,2007 - 08:30 pm Editor: Kennedy Reid Subscribers: 321 Sign up: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/portmore_e-news/ Reply to: webmaster@portmore.org Web site: http://www.portmore.org Phone: 876-320-7343 TOPICS: 1) Greater Portmore Conference - Pricilla Chambers 2) local government reform consultation - Christine Allen 3) NTC Problems - suzette robinson 4) In the news SPONSORED BY: WhatsWhatJamaica.com http://www.WhatsWhatJamaica.com 'Real Jamaicans, telling you how things really go' Dr. Errol Williamson "Working for St. Catherine Southern." http://www.thejlp.org/candidates/candidatepdfs/ewilliamson.pdf email : errol_williamson@yahoo.com Call him at 817-0592 Oasis Christian Community You are invited to Video Vibes Portmore Mall Saturday 24th http://www.occvision.org 1) ======================================================== Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:25:18 -0800 (PST) From: "Pricilla Chambers" Subject: Community Conference To: "Kennedy Reid" I write on behalf of the Greater Portmore Joint Council. The GPJC would be grateful if you could advertise its upcoming Community Conference on its behalf. The Greater Poertmore Joint Council uses this medium to invite residents from various communities in Portmore to participate in a Community Conference scheduled to be held on Saturday, February 17, 2007 betwen 9:00 a.m and 3:00 p.m. at the Portmore Municipal Council (Shops 81-85 in the Portmore Pines Plaza). Selected agencies have been asked to present on the following: Proposal Writing Fundraising Constitution Writing Youth Development Environmental Management Community Organising Conflict Resolution Infrastructural Development Security Planning Guest Speaker: Prof. Barry Chevannes Contact number for Chairperson: Mrs. Heather Wallen-Bryan 997-0807 (C) Thanking you in advance. Pricilla Chambers Assistant Secretary Greater Portmore Joint Council 2) ======================================================== Regional Office 1 Port Henderson Road Spanish Town P.O. St. Catherine Tel. 907-1645/984-5270; Fax: 984-2865 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 12:00:49 -0800 (PST) From: "christine allen" Subject: local government reform consultation To: "Kennedy Reid" Kennedy: As discussed, please see attached letter re the subject. You can send out your neighbours and friends. See if you can give me a list of persons on Monday with contacts so that I may follow-up ( inform them that break and lunch will be provided). If you prefer letter head I can fax it. Remember LGR is very important to community based organizations so it is vital to have strong voices and good representation at these consultations. Also be reminded of the Greater Portmore Joint Council's Community Conference on the same date 9:00 a.m., Municipal Council. Regards. Christine. ----------------------- February 1, 2007 Mr. Kennedy Reid Vice President 2 North Citizens Association Greater Portmore P.O. Dear Mr. Reid: The Social Development Commission (SDC) cordially invites you and two members of your Institution to participate in a Local Government Reform consultation scheduled for February 14, 2007 at Twyn Citi Restaurant, commencing at 10:00am. The purpose of this consultation is three-fold: 1. To re-engage, re-sensitise, and re-mobilise citizens and their organisations around critical governance issues, Local Government Reform matters, and broad development concerns; 2. Build consensus about key governance elements for articulation at the national conference spear-headed by the Ministry of Local Government and Environment (MLGE) and for inclusion in the final draft of the National Advisory Committee report and recommendations; and 3. To sensitize the public about the Development Area profile and mapping processes. Your attendance and contribution at this consultation is critical to the preparation of the final report and recommendations for submission to the National Advisory Council on Local Government Reform. Please call Mrs. Christine Allen or Mrs. Margaret Campbell at the SDC Regional Office at 907-1645/984-5270 to confirm your attendance and participation. Yours truly, Baldvin McKenzie Governance Manager 3) ======================================================== Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:42:10 -0800 (PST) From: "suzette robinson" Subject: Re: Portmore E-newsletter : NTC problems To: portmore_e-news-owner@yahoogroups.com Good day Mr. Reid, I have been reading your newsletter for sometime now and I have not seen any correspondence from readers regarding why is it that the NTC busses terminate at '85' in the morning instead of coming into the greater portmore scheme. I have been living in greater portmore for a number of years and each morning comuters have to take the taxis to '85' inorder for them to get to work, and I have noticed that the policemen are there and have not responded to this problem. Not everyone can find that extra fifty dollars to pay, so I think that this matter should be addressed. 4) ======================================================== http://www.radiojamaica.com/news/story.php?category=2&story=32756 Sat Feb 10, 2007 Easton Douglas contracted to work for Portmore Former People's National Party government minister, Easton Douglas has been contracted by the Portmore Municipal Council to implement its new development plan. Speaking with the RJR News Centre, Mayor of Portmore, George Lee, said Mr. Douglas' firm, Easton Douglas and Company, has been contracted to act on the municipality's behalf. The firm will carry out a series of consultations with residents in order to refine the development plan. The project, which is expected to start within a month's time, will seek to define the geographical boundaries of the municipality, establish which lands are the property of the council and how they are to be used. The project will also examine whether there are enough recreational spaces given population growth in Portmore. The project, which will cost between $15 million and $20 million, is being funded by grants from the Canadian International Development Agency and the National Housing Trust. ------ http://www.radiojamaica.com/news/story.php?category=2&story=32668 Thu Feb 8, 2007 Portmore Municipal Council to spend $215mn in 07 Wednesday night the Portmore Municipal Council unveiled a $215 million Budget to finance its programmes and activities during 2007. This a sharp increase from the $130 million which the Council spent last year. Most of the money which the Council expects to spend this year will come from revenues. Speaking Wednesday night at a town meeting at the Lion's Civic Centre, Mayor of Portmore, George Lee, disclosed that he will be seeking more funding from Central Government this year as revenue inflows have been low. He took the opportunity to chide the Government for not doing enough to finance the Council and for dragging its feet in granting autonomy to local authorities. ------- http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20070208/letters/letters5.html What coincidence? published: Thursday | February 8, 2007 The Editor, Sir: I read your article 'Sligoville ripe for development' with a mixture of outrage and sadness. I remember that during the visit of the Chinese vice-president to Jamaica, discussions about a bauxite refinery and the renovation of the railroad were at the top of the list. How is it then that a mini-stadium in Sligoville rose to the top of our national priority list with the Chinese? Let's for a minute accept that our experts felt that a mini-stadium rather than a tomato factory or a school was a better way to spend J$228 million worth of international political capital. How did sleepy, remote Sligoville beat out burgeoning Portmore with its 250,000 people, May Pen or Mandeville? Did the Chinese just decide one day that they would find the least appropriate area for a mini-stadium and throw their money away or did one of our leaders unilaterally suggest or rather insist on this grand idea without a thought to demographics and maintenance costs? Having some knowledge of diplomatic affairs, I believe it was the latter, but maybe the then Minister of Foreign Affairs, who coincidentally is also the Member of Parliament for Sligoville, can tell us. Congratulations! What a way to run a country! I am, etc., JADEN ANDREWS Kingston END) ============================================================ SPONSORED BY: WhatsWhatJamaica.com http://www.WhatsWhatJamaica.com 'Real Jamaicans, telling you how things really go' Dr. Errol Williamson "Working for St. Catherine Southern." http://www.thejlp.org/candidates/candidatepdfs/ewilliamson.pdf email : errol_williamson@yahoo.com Call him at 817-0592 Oasis Christian Community You are invited to Video Vibes Portmore Mall Saturday 24th http://www.occvision.org