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Student at The Mico University College, Tevin Gibbons (left); Head Girl, Oberlin High School, Shania Lawrence (centre); and Deputy Head Girl, Oberlin High School, Okeelia Bryan, perform a song entitled, ‘Redemption Song’, at the launch of Jamaica Day on Thursday (January 31), at Hope Botanical Gardens, in Kingston.

Schools to Celebrate Jamaica Day February 22

Schools across the island will join in the national observation of Jamaica Day, on Friday, February 22, under the theme: ‘Celebrating Jamaica: Embracing Positive Values…Visioning Inclusive Education for a better Jamaica’. The day was officially launched on Thursday (January 31),...

Transport and Mining, Hon. Robert Montague (second right), and Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. JC Hutchinson (fourth right), officially open the New Market Road in St. Elizabeth on Wednesday (January 30). Sharing in the occasion (from left) are: Councillor for the Lacovia Division of the St. Elizabeth Municipal Corporation, George Powell; Councillor of the New Market Division, Richard Solomon, and students of the Happy Grove and Beersheba Primary Schools in the parish.

Newmarket Road in St. Elizabeth Opened

Director of Licensing at the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC), Maurice Thompson, speaking at a JIS Think Tank on January 30.

Gaming Licences to be Renewed by March 31

Director of Graduate Studies and Research at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, and Convener of the UWI’s Research Days 2019 activities, Professor Denise Eldemire-Shearer, addressing a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Tank on January 29.

UWI Partnering with Vision 2030 Jamaica for Research Days 2019

Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP) III Communication/Social Marketing Specialist, Patrice Tomlinson-Nephew, addresses a JIS ‘Think Tank’ recently.

Work of Restorative Justice Unit Lauded

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, addressing the official launch of the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in Rose Hall, St. James, on January 30.

7 years ago Tourism

Tourism Centre Will Provide Solutions to Threats Across Region And Globally – PM

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says Jamaica is proud to be associated with the conceptualising and launch of the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre, which will provide solutions to emerging or existing threats to tourism across the Caribbean region and globally. Among these threats are climate change and natural disasters, cybercrime, pandemics, terrorism, war, population and...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, addressing the House of Representatives on Tuesday (January 8). At left is Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke. In the background is Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. J.C. Hutchinson.

7 years ago National SecurityPrime Minister

‘Plan Secure Jamaica’ Well Advanced – P.M. Holness

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the Government is well advanced in executing Plan Secure Jamaica, which will target a reduction in murders below the regional average of 16 per 100,000 (under 500) within the next decade. “This will take time, and the development of unity of purpose within the Parliament, the whole of the Government and the...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, speaking at the official opening of the S Hotel on January 26 in Montego Bay, St. James.

7 years ago Tourism

Opening of EP Hotel an Economic Boost for Mobay – Bartlett

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says the opening of the S Hotel has created an economic boost for Montego Bay. He said that beyond the jobs generated, there is spin-off for manufacturing and other sectors from the use of locally made furnishings, and other products and services. “So, you can see how this property is adding dimension to Jamaica’s...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (second right), takes time out to speak to booth holders on his way to addressing the official launch of the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre, at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in Rose Hall, St. James, on January 30. With the Prime Minister (from right) are: Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett; Director of Tourism, Donovan White and Chief Strategist and Adviser to the Minister, Delano Seiveright.

7 years ago Prime MinisterTechnology

PM Says Region Must Guard Against Terrorism and Cybercrimes

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says terrorism and cybercrimes are two of the emerging threats that the Caribbean region has to guard against in its quest for sustainable development. He was addressing the official launch of the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre, at the Montego Bay Convention Centre, in Rose Hall, St. James, on January 30....

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, addresses the official launch of the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in Rose Hall, St. James, on January 30.

7 years ago EnvironmentPrime Minister

Region Must Act Now Against Climate Change – PM

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the region must take action now in order to address the devastating impacts of global warming and climate change. Mr. Holness noted that the impact of climate change in the region has already taken a toll on the economies of a number of countries and could have an even more lasting effect...

Custos of St. James, Bishop the Hon. Conrad Pitkin (left), and Reverend Milverton Munroe (right), leads the procession from the Half Moon Hotel conference centre in Rose Hall, St. James on Saturday (Jan. 26), where the memorial service for the late Ambassador Donald Frank Pringle was held.

7 years ago Community

Frank Pringle Remembered As Tourism Icon

It was a somber atmosphere inside the Half Moon Hotel conference centre in Rose Hall, St. James on Saturday (January 26), where scores of persons came out to bid farewell to late Ambassador Donald Frank Pringle. Mr. Pringle, who had a distinguished record of public service, including serving as Jamaica’s Tourism Minister from 1989 to 1992, died on December 10...

The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange (right), greets her counterpart Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture from Ghana, the Honourable Catherine Afeku upon her arrival at the Norman Manley International Airport on Saturday (January 26). Minister Afeku is in Jamaica for the Caribbean launch of the “Year of Return, Ghana 2019” for Africans in the Diaspora.

7 years ago Culture

PHOTO: Minister Grange Welcomes Ghanian Minister of Culture and Arts to Jamaica

The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange (right), greets her counterpart Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture from Ghana, the Honourable Catherine Afeku upon her arrival at the Norman Manley International Airport on Saturday (January 26). Minister Afeku is in Jamaica for the Caribbean launch of the “Year of Return, Ghana 2019” for Africans in...