The Attorney General’s Department has proposed several legislative and policy measures for consideration by the Government regarding Jamaica’s implementation of the Paris Agreement, which relates to climate-change adaptation and mitigation. Attorney General, Hon. Marlene Malahoo Forte, says this is based on the fact that the commitments of the parties to the Agreement relating to reducing emissions “are, strictly speaking, of...

The Labour Day Secretariat in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport is targeting the planting of 155,000 fruit and ornamental trees on Labour Day, May 23. Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Dr. Janice Lindsay, said the move is in keeping with the theme for the day, ‘Restore, Preserve and Beautify’, and will involve collaboration with the Forestry...

The Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport will be mounting a third gateway sign to the Blue and John Crow Mountains in Port Morant, St. Thomas. Other signs have been installed at access points to the World Heritage Site in Papine, St Andrew and in Port Antonio, Portland. Principal Director, Creative Industries Policy Division, Dr. Janice Lindsay, told JIS...

Director for the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information’s Western Regional Office, Dr. Michelle Pinnock, says home economics education continues to be an important subject area that plays a critical role in nation building. Speaking at the 22nd Biennial Conference of the Caribbean Association of Home Economists INC. at the Montego Bay Convention Centre, St. James recently, Dr. Pinnock said...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett will be among a list of influential speakers at the World Travel and Tourism Council’s (WTTC) 17th Global Summit in Bangkok, Thailand on April 27. The impressive line-up also includes: former British Prime Minister, David Cameron; United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Secretary General Taleb Rifai; United States Travel Association President and Chief Executive...

Jamaica is reforming and modernising several pieces of legislation in order to strengthen law enforcement capabilities while seeking to improve all aspects of security on the island, says High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, His Excellency Seth George Ramocan. He was speaking at a meeting of the Jamaica Diaspora Crime Intervention and Prevention Task Force (JDCIPT) held recently at the...

The Spanish Town Hospital is to benefit from the donation of a portable suction machine from the Social Development Commission (SDC). The handing over ceremony will take place on Wednesday (April 19) at the SDC’s St. Catherine parish office located on Port Henderson Road. The piece of equipment was bought using funds raised by the entity’s St. Catherine Agency Network...