Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, has praised the management of COK Sodality Cooperative Credit Union Limited for investing in technology designed to enhance the entity’s operations and client service delivery. COK, which is headquartered in Kingston, has digitised all transactions, installing the new Universa Premier Digital Core Banking Suite, which is a modern...

General Surgeon at the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital in Westmoreland, Dr. Lincoln Cox, says that many cancer patients are putting themselves at risk by turning to alternative medicine rather than sticking with the tried and proven conventional treatments. Speaking at a recent Think Tank at the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Regional Office in Montego Bay, St. James, he said that the practice...

More Jamaicans are scheduled to arrive on flights from Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados on Saturday (June 13) as the Government works with Caribbean countries and regional airlines to bring nationals home. “We have now scheduled flights to bring Jamaicans home, not just students but all nationals who have been impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions and had flights cancelled...

Administrators at the Marcus Garvey Technical High School in St. Ann have hailed the return of students and the reopening of the institution as a success and a lesson in what can be accomplished by sheer tenacity and teamwork. Speaking to JIS News on June 10, the administrators noted that all the health and safety guidelines that have been recommended...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says the industry is ready to receive the estimated 6,000 visitors who are expected to arrive in the island between June 15 and 30 as the Government begins phased reopening of the country’s borders. “On June 15, we will have seven flights that will come in. Between June 15 and 30 we expect 70...

All 3,289 Jamaican nationals who returned to the island between April 20 and June 10 under the protocol for controlled re-entry have been tested for the coronavirus (COVID-19). Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, gave the update during a digital press conference from the Ministry of Health and Wellness’ New Kingston offices on Thursday (June 11). She said those tested...

One hundred and sixteen farmworkers left the island today (June 12), for the United States, under the Seasonal Work Programme between Jamaica and the United States. The batch, who all returning workers, will be dispatched to the Gebbers Farm in Washington, where they will be reaping apples. The send-off ceremony was held at the Ministry of Labour’s Overseas Employment Services...