Twelve-year-old triplets, Dennis, Denrique, and Tomoya Barrett have been rewarded with Alcatel tablet computers and a $50,000 education grant to assist with back-to-school supplies, for performing outstandingly during the 2021 Primary Exit Profile (PEP) exams. The presentations were made recently by State Minister in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Zavia Mayne. The two brothers and their sister...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, says the Government is committed to improving the national and regional cybersecurity resilience and response. “Cybercrime is a clear and present danger to every country in the region. This is the new frontier of national and regional security resilience, and an area in which the Government of Jamaica...

Effective immediately, public hospitals islandwide will be restricted to conducting emergency care services only. This comes as the public health facilities register continued increases in confirmed and suspected cases of COVID-19 infections that required hospitalisation. This has caused the facilities to exceed their COVID-19 isolation capacity. Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor McKenzie, “Most hospitals are over the capacity of...

Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) wishes to remind businesspersons that the due date of August 31, 2021, for the filing and payment of GCT, SCT, TCT, and GART Returns for the month of July, has been extended to September 3, 2021. The decision has been taken by the Tax Authority to give consideration to those categories of taxpayers, who may have...

President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ), Professor Gordon Shirley, says he is confident Jamaica will once again be a preferred cruise destination once the COVID-19 numbers are curtailed. In fact, Professor Shirley, in an interview with JIS News following the arrival of the Carnival Sunrise in Ocho Rios, St. Ann, on August 25,...

The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green, has said that healthcare workers and vulnerable groups in Southwestern St. Elizabeth may benefit from digital grants as a result of partnering with payment facilitator, WiPay. The announcement was made during WiPay’s opening ceremony of its headquarters in New Kingston, yesterday (August 26). The Minister said the selection of the recipients...

The Ministry of National Security (MNS) National Task Force Against Trafficking in Persons (NATFATIP) says that the recent amendments to the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Act signals its intent to reduce trafficking in persons locally. Speaking with JIS News, MNS Trafficking in Persons Secretariat Manager, Chenee Russell Robinson, said that among the amendments made earlier this year is that the...