On Tuesday, July 30, Jamaica will join other countries across the world to observe World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, under the theme ‘Human Trafficking: Call Your Government to Action’. Trafficking in persons has been identified in Jamaica, with cases of forced labour, sexual exploitation and domestic servitude in men, women and children. Jamaicans have also been victims of human...

Mayor of Montego Bay, Councillor Homer Davis, says that additional repairs will be done under the St. James Municipal Corporation’s sidewalk rehabilitation project. “The project is ongoing; work will soon commence on Barnett Street. We will be doing some repairs going up to City Centre,” the Mayor said, while addressing a JIS Think Tank held at the municipality’s offices in...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, on Friday (July 26), handed over 37 new housing solutions to beneficiaries of the Spanish Ridge housing scheme in St. Catherine. Spanish Ridge is a National Housing Trust (NHT) development located in the sub-urban community of Kitson Town and approximately eight kilometres north-west of Spanish Town. The solutions consist of 18 two-bedroom units...

Disaster Coordinator for St. James, Tamoy Sinclair, says the plastic ban should minimise the impact of flooding in Montego Bay. Ms. Sinclair was addressing a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) ‘Think Tank’, which was held at the St. James Municipal Corporation in Montego Bay on Thursday (July 25). “Montego Bay is prone to flooding, primarily because of plastic waste in our...

Finance and the Public Service Minister, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, says the movement in the Jamaican currency is a function of demand and supply associated with a flexible exchange rate regime. He noted that while “we were conditioned to see movements in the currency as being related to macroeconomic instability”, this is not the case for Jamaica. The Minister,...

Mayor of Montego Bay, Councillor Homer Davis, says while there is still more progress to be made, the law and order initiative, known as Operation Restore Paradise, has, so far, been largely successful. Speaking at a JIS ‘Think Tank’ at the St. James Municipal Corporation on July 25, Mayor Davis said the mission going forward is to ensure sustainability, and...

Former Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Edward Seaga, was laid to rest in National Heroes Park, today (June 23). The coffin bearing the remains of  Mr. Seaga, who served as Prime Minister from 1980 to 1989 and as Member of Parliament for West Kingston for 43 years, was lowered into the grave at approximately 3:36 p.m. This followed a State...

Fifty exceptional youth leaders were invited to the 8th Biennial Diaspora Conference, held at the Jamaica Conference Centre, in Downtown Kingston, from June 16-20. State Minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information,  Hon. Alando Terrelonge, who spoke on June 17 at the event,  pointed out that the conference gave  the young people an opportunity to network,  to see...

A grateful nation said its final farewell to former Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Edward Seaga, during a Service of Thanksgiving at the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, in Kingston, on Sunday (June 23). Mr. Seaga was accorded a State Funeral, in recognition of the high national office he held as the fifth Prime Minister of Jamaica. Mourners, headed...