The Government has invested more than $423 million to improve the health services for high-risk pregnant women at the Spanish Town Hospital in St. Catherine, with the construction of a high-dependency unit (HDU). It is one of four facilities to have been built from funding provided under the Programme for Reduction of Maternal and Child Mortality (PROMAC), which is a...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness has developed a COVID-19 Recovery Plan, with the objective of establishing an adequate legal framework to support and enable the implementation of actions in response to the virus and other biohazard public health emergencies. Portfolio Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, made the announcement during his contribution to the 2020/21 Sectoral Debate in the...

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Lester Michael Henry (left), listens to Canadian High Commissioner, Her Excellency Laurie Peters, when she visited the Ministry in Kingston, on Wednesday (July 8).

The Ministry of National Security, through the recently ended Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP), virtually engaged more than 200 youth in pre-vocational and vocational skills training. Between April and June, the participants from the Kingston Metropolitan Area, Central and Western regions were engaged in Mathematics, English and Life Skills Education three times per week. The training programmes were scheduled...

On Wednesday, (July 8), Jamaica presented at the United Nations High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), and indicated that the economy is expected to recover within two to four years and employment within one to three years following global economic fall-out caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The projected short recovery period compared with the global economic recession of...

As at Wednesday (July 8), Jamaica recorded six new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed positives for the island to 751. The new cases consist of two (2) males and four (4) females with ages ranging from 19 to 48 years. All are imported cases, who recently came into the island on flights from the United States (5)...

Approximately 3,000 health workers have been trained under the Compassionate Care programme to date. These include clinical, technical, administrative, skilled and non-skilled staff. Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, said that the programme, which was implemented to improve customer service and patient interactions at public health facilities, will continue. “We saw the need in public health...