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Environmental Manager at the National Road Operating and Constructing Company (NROCC), Errol Mortley, addresses recent JIS ‘ Think Tank’.
Environmental Manager at the National Road Operating and Constructing Company (NROCC), Errol Mortley, addresses recent JIS ‘ Think Tank’.

High Level Of Environmental Monitoring On Highway Project – NROCC

The National Road Operating and Constructing Company (NROCC) is assuring the public that a high level of environmental monitoring and compliance is taking place on the May Pen to Williamsfield leg of Highway 2000. In an interview with JIS News,...
Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (right), examines syringes being stored at the Ministry’s storage warehouse on Shalimar Avenue in Kingston, in preparation for the distribution of vaccines that are to come in the island to prevent the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). Looking on is Acting Stores Manager, Dwayne Linton. The Minister visited the site on February 24.
Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (right), examines syringes being stored at the Ministry’s storage warehouse on Shalimar Avenue in Kingston, in preparation for the distribution of vaccines that are to come in the island to prevent the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). Looking on is Acting Stores Manager, Dwayne Linton. The Minister visited the site on February 24.

PHOTOS: Health Minister, Dr. Tufton At Ministry’s Warehouse
Mayor of Kingston, Senator Councillor Delroy Williams, places a wreath at the shrine of National Hero, the Rt. Excellent Sir Alexander Bustamante, in honour of the 137th anniversary of his birth, at National Heroes Park in Kingston on Wednesday, February 24.
Mayor of Kingston, Senator Councillor Delroy Williams, places a wreath at the shrine of National Hero, the Rt. Excellent Sir Alexander Bustamante, in honour of the 137th anniversary of his birth, at National Heroes Park in Kingston on Wednesday, February 24.

PHOTOS: Floral Tributes For Rt. Excellent Sir Alexander Bustamante
National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) sanitation workers with the Metropolitan Parks and Markets Waste Management Limited clear garbage from a section of downtown Kingston. The NSWMA is reminding householders that they should secure their waste until the sanitation workers and compactor trucks do collections. (File Photo)
National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) sanitation workers with the Metropolitan Parks and Markets Waste Management Limited clear garbage from a section of downtown Kingston. The NSWMA is reminding householders that they should secure their waste until the sanitation workers and compactor trucks do collections. (File Photo)

Persons Encouraged To Practise Proper Waste Management
Education, Youth and Information Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams (left), observes as Business Administration Manager, Stone Plus Limited, Saccherine Chin (second left), assists grade-five Lyssons Primary, student, Nathallia Crumbie (third left), in using her new tablet. Principal of the school, Evette Bonfield Beecher, looks on. The occasion was the handover of 100 tablets donated by Stone Plus Limited under the ‘One Laptop or Tablet Per Child’ initiative, at the Ministry’s Heroes Circle offices in Kingston on Wednesday (February 24).
Education, Youth and Information Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams (left), observes as Business Administration Manager, Stone Plus Limited, Saccherine Chin (second left), assists grade-five Lyssons Primary, student, Nathallia Crumbie (third left), in using her new tablet. Principal of the school, Evette Bonfield Beecher, looks on. The occasion was the handover of 100 tablets donated by Stone Plus Limited under the ‘One Laptop or Tablet Per Child’ initiative, at the Ministry’s Heroes Circle offices in Kingston on Wednesday (February 24).

Greater Emphasis On Strengthening Online Learning – Minister Williams

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Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green (third left), along with Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Dermon Spence (second left); Opposition Spokesman on Agriculture, Lothan Cousins (right), and other officials, tours the upgraded $32-million Ebony Park irrigation facility in Clarendon, on February 24.
Water

Ebony Park Irrigation System Upgraded

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green, has commissioned into service the upgraded $32-million Ebony Park irrigation facility in Southern Clarendon. Speaking at the ceremony, yesterday (February 24), Mr. Green reported that the National Irrigation Commission (NIC) solar retrofitted system will self-generate 75 per cent of the required energy for the pump station, resulting in a 43 per cent...
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Agriculture

Trelawny 4-H Clubs Deliver Virtual Training On Rabbit Rearing

As part of its thrust to maintain relevance amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the Jamaica 4-H Clubs has revised the way it presents and delivers a number of its training programmes. This has been done while maintaining its mandate as the country’s premier youth leadership and vocational training organisation for young, aspiring farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs. Among its latest endeavours, the...
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Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Carissa F. Etienne. (Photo © PAHO/WHO)
CoronavirusHealth & Wellness

Vaccines Distributed Through COVAX Are Safe And Effective – PAHO Head

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director, Dr. Carissa Etienne, is encouraging citizens of member states to get vaccinated against the coronavirus (COVID-19), once doses approved for distribution by the World Health Organization (WHO) are delivered to their countries. Approximately two billion doses of vaccines are being procured from manufacturers for initial deployment through WHO’s COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) Facility,...
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Budget 2021/2022

Gov’t Allots $66 Million To Complete Poverty Reduction Programme IV

The Government has allotted $66 million to complete activities under the Poverty Reduction Programme (PRP) IV in the upcoming financial year. The funds, which have been provided in the 2021/22 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives, will be used to facilitate the issuance of close-out certificates for 10 remaining infrastructure subprojects. These relate to four health centres...
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Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams (second left), hands over a tablet computer to a student of the Gregory Park Primary School, Amoya Venson, during a ceremony held at the school’s Portmore, St. Catherine, location on Wednesday (February 24). Also pictured (from left) are State Minister in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, and Member of Parliament for East Central St. Catherine, Hon. Alando Terrelonge; Past Presidents
Education

Final Batch Of Tablets For PATH Students To Be Distributed Shortly

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, says that the final batch of tablets procured for students under the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) has arrived in the island and will be distributed shortly. She noted that of the 40,000 tablets procured, approximately 36,000 have already been disbursed to pupils in grades four, five and...
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