The virtual National Service of Thanksgiving to mark Jamaica’s 183rd anniversary of Emancipation and 59 years since Independence will take place on Sunday (August 1), at the Portmore Gospel Assembly, St. Catherine at 9:00 a.m. The service, organised through the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, will be held under the theme: ‘Jamaica 59: Stronger Together’. Guest preacher will...

Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie (left), is accompanied by Councillor for the Porus division, Claudia Morant-Baker and Mayor of Mandeville, Donovan Mitchell, during a visit to the emergency shelter at the St. Jago Primary and Infant School in Manchester. The Minister toured sections of the parish recently.

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr. is encouraging citizens to support businesses that have retrofitted their operations to be compliant with the government ban on single-use plastics. “I am encouraging citizens to be conscientious in their purchase of goods and services; seek out businesses that are environmentally friendly and using material derived from...

The Tourism Product Development Company Limited (TPDCo) has issued more than 1,000 coronavirus (COVID-19) Protocol Compliance certificates to businesses within the tourism industry. This was disclosed by Director of Product Quality, TPDCo, Deanne Keating-Campbell, while addressing a webinar hosted by the agency on Wednesday (July 28). Ms. Keating-Campbell said that the COVID-19-compliant certificate demonstrates that the establishment is safely carrying...

One hundred and forty members of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) on Friday (July 30) received the 2021 Medal of Honour for General Service. The medals were presented by Governor-General, His Excellency, the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, and Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, during the JDF’s Armed Forces Day Parade at Up Park...

The Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) is encouraging persons to practise alternatives to burning when clearing land and disposing of the brush generated. This call comes as the Brigade is again seeing an increase in bushfires across the island. “We really have to again implore Jamaicans, especially those who are lighting fires to clear farmland, to desist from doing this,” JFB...

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Dunstan Bryan, says that more than 307,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccines have been administered to date. “We have inoculated approximately 180,000 persons with one dose and 127,000 persons with two doses (of the AstraZeneca vaccine),” he informed during the Ministry’s virtual COVID Conversations press briefing on Thursday (July 29). He...