Only 49 Jamaicans with the coronavirus (COVID-19) are currently in hospital. Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, made the disclosure during a virtual press conference at the Office of the Prime Minister on Monday (May 11), where he informed that the country now has 505 confirmed cases of the virus. “By virtue of our projections and plans, we put...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, says approximately $2.65 billion in Compassionate Grant payments have been made to date to some 265,000 applicants under the Government’s COVID Allocation of Resources for Employees (CARE) Programme. In a statement on Monday (May 11), Dr. Clarke advised that the funds were disbursed through more than 40 financial...

Executive Director of the Tourism Product Development Company, (TPDCo), Dr. Andrew Spencer, says the agency has refocused its operations and is now looking at a new model for the sector, post coronavirus (COVID-19). “The fundamental difference in what we do now is that before we would have routine product quality assessment looking for some of the regular things that we...

Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, says contact tracers have been effective in helping to contain the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in Jamaica. Dr. Tufton, who was speaking to health workers at the Dover Community Centre in St. Mary on Saturday (May 9), noted that the health workers who visit communities to track down infected individuals and...

President of the National Water Commission (NWC), Mark Barnett, says there has been a significant increase in the trucking of water to communities across the island. He informed that 7,960 loads of water have been trucked since March 18. “We would normally be focusing on NWC supply areas, but that has been, more or less, eliminated under the circumstances (coronavirus...

As of Sunday (May 10), the total number of patients who have recovered from COVID-19 and have been discharged from hospital has soared to 90, as 12 new patients have received a second negative test. During that period also, four new positives have been identified, which now brings the total confirmed COVID-19 cases in Jamaica to 502. The four (4)...

The Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) on Thursday (May 7) donated two firefighting backpack pumps to the farming community of Flagaman, St. Elizabeth, in a proactive step to suppress and control potential fire outbreaks on farmlands in the area. The high-pressure portable items were handed over following a tour of farms that were devastated by fire in August of last year,...