Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Karl Samuda, says he is looking forward to working with the relevant stakeholders for further development of the Overseas Employment Programme. He made the remarks at a send-off ceremony held recently at the New Kingston offices of the National Insurance Fund for farmworkers heading to the United States of America to take up...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green, said the ongoing Fisheries Licensing and Registration System Project will improve the efficiency of service delivery in the sector. The project, which is being facilitated by the Transformation Implementation Unit, (TIU) will strengthen the work of the newly established National Fisheries Authority (NFA). Minister Green, who was speaking in a recent JIS...

Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, says that more coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines are expected in the island this week. “We will see vaccines coming in every few weeks or, at least, every month going into the New Year,” he said, noting that the shipments will add to the approximately 1.1 million doses of vaccines received to...

The Ministry of National Security is conducting an impact assessment of Project Rebuild, Overhaul, and Construct (PROC) The objective of PROC is to convert all police stations into modern, citizen-friendly workspaces, provide officers with a comfortable environment conducive to work, while creating the ambience for citizens to engage the police willingly and comfortably. Being done by the Ministry’s Monitoring and...

  Females 24 HRS OVERALL Confirmed Cases 536 76,987 SEX CLASSIFICATION     Females 323 43,765 Males 213 33,218 Under Investigation 0 4 AGE RANGE 1 day to 103 years 1 day to 108 years PARISH CLASSIFICATION OF NEW CASES     Clarendon 100 4,032 Hanover 9 2,529 KSA 78 19,221 Manchester 37 5,330 Portland 25 2,104 St. Ann 33...

Chief Public Health Inspector for St. Elizabeth, Everod Lewis, says the parish’s Aedes aegypti index was at 10 per cent for the month of August. “We were able to visit over 7,000 homes for the period, where we recognised that 711 [premises] were positive, which basically gave us that 10 per cent,” he said, while addressing the monthly meeting of...

There are more 330 attorneys offering their services through the Legal Aid Council (LAC). “They operate islandwide, so you will find attorneys from every parish on our list. We have junior counsel, senior counsel and we have Queen’s Counsel on our list,” Legal Officer with the LAC, Kerona Spence,” told JIS News. She said that the LAC only engages senior...