In the wake of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) and the management and stakeholders of Jamaica’s airports have taken a number of preventative and proactive measures to protect their passengers and workers. The international gateways to Jamaica - Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA), Sangster International Airport (SIA), and the Ian Fleming International Airport (IFIA) continue...

Jamaica is to benefit from a US$5 million investment by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to improve the nation’s financial and economic resilience to safeguard against losses during natural disasters. Jamaica Mission Deputy Director, Jason Fraser, said the USAID signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Finance and Public Service last year, and through...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, and Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, on Friday (February 28), broke ground for a US$1 billion multi-resort development - Sugarcane Bay Jamaica - in Llandovery, St. Ann. The project is being executed by Karisma Hotels and Resorts on a 226-acre property that will add approximately 4,700 new rooms in the tourism sector. The...

The Government will be partnering with the University of the West Indies (UWI), Open Campus, over the next three years, to provide training and research on sexual harassment in the workplace and related matters. Specifically, the collaboration is between the Bureau of Gender Affairs (BGA), under the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, and the Hugh Shearer Labour Studies...

Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, says the National Disaster Response Committee, which is chaired by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, has been designated to spearhead overall coordination of Jamaica’s preparedness for the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Dr. Tufton, who noted that the body is the point of reference for matters of a critical nature,...

The Jamaica Single Window for Trade (JSWIFT) is to be piloted at the Trade Board Limited starting March 2020. This was disclosed by Chief Information Officer at the Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA), André Williams, at a private-sector-engagement breakfast held on February 27 at the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service in Kingston. JSWIFT is a one-stop-shop electronic system that allows...

One of the country’s leading researchers in the area of poison control in Jamaica says public education efforts will need to be intensified, in partnership with the Ministry of Health, to promote best practices in the informal chemical industry. This would include training for retailers of household chemicals to teach them about packaging and storage, under the Global Harmonisation System...