The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has announced the commencement of development work at the Seville Heritage Park in St Ann. Minister Grange said the work, which started last week and is scheduled to be completed by January 2021, is part of the government’s heritage preservation programme. “This is a continuation of the work...

The office of the Ministry of Labour & Social Security located at 10 Hanover Street in Spanish Town, St. Catherine will be closed to the public today, Monday, August 31, 2020 for deep cleaning and sanitization. The office will resume normal operations to the public on Tuesday, September 1, 2020. In case of an emergency, please contact our offices at...

Head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Jamaica, Ambassador Malgorzata Wasilewska, is leaving Jamaica impressed with the energy and achievements of women in Jamaica. Ambassador Wasilewska, who departs the island at the end of August, told JIS News that she is pleased to have worked alongside “a fantastic network of women” during her tour of duty. “There is a...

Executive Director of the Private Security Regulation Authority (PSRA), Rick Harris, says the agency is digitising several services in order to decrease the need for physical interaction and to improve service delivery to its clients. Addressing the recent official opening of the PSRA’s western regional office in Montego Bay, St. James, Mr. Harris said digitisation will decrease face-to-face interaction, “which...

All duly nominated political candidates in the upcoming General Election on September 3 will be given a small quantity of masks and hand sanitisers by the Ministry of Health and Wellness as part of its public health mitigation efforts against the coronavirus (COVID-19). This is to ensure that electors who are going to polling stations are wearing their masks and...

The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) has expressed confidence in its selection of Election Day workers who will be placed in the 2,200 polling stations throughout the island on September 3. “From the recruitment process, we have ensured that we get a certain quality of persons and I am confident that the quality of persons we got are of a...

In less than a week, 121 more doctors will be deployed to bolster the numbers of front-line workers assisting with the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Jamaica. Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, gave this update during a digital press conference held on Thursday (August 27). “We are well advanced with the employment and deployment...