Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, has instructed that the Drought Management Committee meet weekly and provide Cabinet with updates, in light of the current meteorological drought being experienced in Jamaica.    Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator the Hon. Matthew Samuda, provided details during a press briefing on Friday (March 3) at...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness left the island this morning, February 27, 2023, to lead a special CARICOM mission to Haiti which will also be comprised of representatives from the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago as well as the CARICOM Secretariat. As part of this mission, the Prime Minister and the CARICOM delegation members are expected to have discussions with several critical...

Developing human resource capacity through education and training, is one way in which Jamaica is building resilience in tourism, says Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, Hon. Floyd Green. “Jamaica has had a lot of training systems around tourism because our economy is so strongly built on [the sector],” he noted. The Minister, who was participating...

Thirty-six inmates of the St. Catherine Adult Correctional Centre have been provided with birth certificates through the ‘Operation Birthright’ project. They are among the first batch of 11,000 Jamaicans, who have been identified to benefit under the programme, which was established to provide an opportunity for Jamaicans who are without a birth certificate to obtain this critical document free of...

Nineteen young Jamaicans, who have made outstanding contribution in various areas, were presented with the Prime Minister’s National Youth Awards for Excellence, during a ceremony held last evening (Feb. 4) on the lawns of Jamaica House.   Awards were presented in the categories of academics, youth development, sports, journalism/e-journalism, nation-building, music, national leadership, innovation science/technology, arts and culture, agriculture and agro-processing,...

Steps being taken by the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica (BCJ) to establish a digital literacy skills framework for Jamaica, will equip citizens, particularly children, to make better decisions when using the internet.  Executive Director of the BCJ, Cordel Green, said that the entity is working in partnership with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Mona School...

The Government will be amending the new Road Traffic Act and Regulations in order to reinforce public transportation safety for children and the wider public.   Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, made the announcement during a media briefing on Friday (February 3).  It comes in the wake of a decision by several operators of public passenger vehicles (PPVs) islandwide...

Beginning February, all certificates produced by the Registrar General’s Department (RGD) will be printed on a new security paper with enhanced features. Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Charlton McFarlane, told JIS News that the agency expects to start using the paper by the last week of February. He said this is being done in a bid to prevent the documents from...

This morning I received a general briefing from the Minister of Finance and the Public Service, representatives of the Financial Services Commission and Financial Investigations Division, the Commissioner of Police, and the Attorney General’s Department, on allegations of significant fraud which is of national concern, at Stocks and Securities Limited, a non-bank financial institution. This briefing was important to properly...