Residents of Bog Walk, St Catherine, converge at the local train station for a closer view of the reconditioned five-coach train on its test run from May Pen, Clarendon, to Linstead, St Catherine, on Saturday, April 18. Passenger rail service is being reintroduced after nearly 20 years by the Ministry of Transport and Works and the Jamaica Railway Corporation. -JIS
Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica Dr Gladstone Hutchinson (left) and Governor General Sir Patrick Allen pore over a copy of 'Vision 2030 Jamaica - National Development Plan' after Hutchinson presented a copy of the 88-page condensed version to the head of state at his official residence, King's House. - JIS
Richard Lumsden, programme manager for the Vision 2030 Jamaica unit at the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), discusses the content of the condensed 88-page version of the 'Vision 2030 Jamaica - National Development Plan' with Patricia Roberts, director general of the Jamaica Library Service (JLS), at second right. PIOJ Vision 2030 Jamaica communications specialist Carmen Miller is at left, and JLS Senior Director Karen Barton, at right. Some 530 copies of the plan were handed over to the JLS at its head office on Tom Redcam Drive, St Andrew. Another 500 copies of the Braille version of the plan were distributed to agencies such as the Jamaica Society for the Blind; the Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities; the combined Disabilities Association; the Salvation Army School for the Blind and Visually Impaired; and the Abilities Foundation. The Vision 2030 plan is a 400-page document produced and launched back in 2007 as the blueprint to developed-nation status for Jamaica.-JIS
