The Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) is urging the public to implement vector-control measures in their homes, in response to the increase in the region’s Aedes index. The index, which is the ratio, expressed as a percentage, of the number of houses in a well-defined area where actual breeding of the Aedes aegypti mosquito is found, has increased from seven...

Children are the focus of this year’s Trafficking in Persons Week, as the National Task Force Against Trafficking in Persons (NATFATIP) strives to bring awareness to the issue. Coordinator of NATFATIP, Audrey Budhi, told a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Tank on July 29, that a series of activities have been planned for the Week, which began on July 28...

Newly installed Acting Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Christopher Phillips, will be bringing all his training and experience to bear in his new role as Commander of the Area Five Police Division. Speaking at a recent function at the Greater Portmore Police Station, where he was honoured for sterling leadership of the St. Catherine South Division, the Acting ACP said...

Members of the Senate have given the nod of approval to an amendment to the Representation of the People Act, 2024. This will allow for the period within which a by-election is to be held to fill a vacancy within an electoral division of a Municipal Corporation, to be extended beyond the period of three months, under clear specific listed...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett (fourth left), who received an Honorary Doctorate in Hospitality and Tourism Management from the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC), at a graduation ceremony, held at the National Arena, on Sunday (July 28), shares a  photo opportunity with (from left) Deputy Group Executive Chairperson of the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC), Geraldine Adams; President...

 

The Ministry of Education and Youth will roll out the Character Education programme across Region 3 – St. Ann and Trelawny – in the 2024/25 school year. The aim is to instil core values and ethical principles in students across primary and secondary schools, says Acting Chief Education Officer, Terry-Ann Thomas Gayle, who was addressing Region 3 Back to School...