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Newly appointed Chairman of the Professional Engineers Registration Board (PERB), Omar Sweeney.

Engineers Board Ensuring Industry Standards Are Maintained

The Professional Engineers Registration Board (PERB) is taking steps to make sure that the local industry’s high standards are maintained and are on par with international benchmarks. This is the word from the newly appointed Chairman of the body, Omar...

Aristel Saint-Joy cuts a client’s hair at Groomer’s Barber Shop in Montego Bay, St. James. He will receive the Badge of Honour for Gallantry for his courageous efforts in rescuing five persons, including a baby, after heavy rains flooded roads and buildings in St James in November of last year.

Montego Bay Trio to Receive National Award

Acting Director of Health Services, Planning and Integration, at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Simone Spence, displays an equipped bag for primary healthcare midwives. Dr. Spence is also Coordinator of the €22-million Programme for the Reduction of Maternal and Child Mortality (PROMAC).

Childbearing Women Called on to Make Personal Health Management A Priority

Chief Medical Officer in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Jacqueline Bisasor-McKenzie, addresses a press conference on the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), held at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Monday (October 8). At left is Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton.

Health Ministry Administering HPV Vaccine to Second Cohort of Girls

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (right), addresses a post-United Nations High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) press conference held at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Monday (October 8). At left is Head, Health Promotion & Protection Division, Ministry of Health, Dr. Simone Spence.

World Leaders Commit to Tackling NCDs

7 years ago Foreign Affairs

Jamaica’s Diplomats Meet in Kingston for Discussions to Drive Foreign Policy

Jamaican Heads of Mission worldwide, will join the rest of the Foreign Ministry’s Executive Management this week (October 8-12) at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, New Kingston, for their 2018 Conference. The meetings will be held under the theme, “Diplomacy in an Era of Constant Change: Jamaica’s Response” and will address a wide range of policy and operational issues. In addition...

7 years ago Local GovernmentPrime Minister

PM Holness Extends Condolences to Haiti in the Aftermath of Earthquake

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has extended sincere condolences on behalf of the Government to the Government and people of Haiti following a major earthquake which hit the island on Saturday. A 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit the French-speaking nation on Saturday, October 6, leaving at least 15 people dead and more than 300 injured. The Prime Minister expressed sympathy at the...

Director, Community Cultural Development Services, Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), Marjorie Leyden-Vernon.

7 years ago Culture

JCDC Stages Activities for National Heritage Week

The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) is staging a series of activities across the island from October 8 to 15 in celebration of National Heritage Week, under the theme ‘One Love…One Family…One Heritage’. Director for Community and Cultural Development Services at the JCDC, Marjorie Leyden-Vernon, told JIS News that the activities include parish awards ceremonies, church services, heritage festivals and...

Government Senator, Matthew Samuda, addressing Friday

7 years ago Parliament

Gov’t to Undertake Education Campaign on Plastic, Polystyrene Ban

The Government will be undertaking an educational campaign surrounding the impending ban on the importation, manufacture, distribution and use of specific categories of plastic packaging materials. Government Senator Matthew Samuda, who made the disclosure during Friday’s (October 5) sitting of the Senate, said the campaign will, among other things, highlight alternative packaging materials. “There is nothing that the Government has...

Custos Rotulorum of St. James, Bishop the Hon. Conrad Pitkin, addresses stakeholders at a Justice of the Peace training session staged by the Ministry of Justice at Sandals Montego Bay on Saturday ( October 6).

7 years ago Justice

Justices of the Peace Urged to be Ethical

Custos of St. James, Bishop the Hon. Conrad Pitkin, has charged the parish’s justices of the peace (JPs) to be ethical in the performance of their duties and avoid actions that bring the office into disrepute. He urged the JPs not to recommend anyone by filling out forms or vouch for persons not known to them. “I, therefore, ask you...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Fayval Williams, has a light moment with Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (centre), and President of the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters’ Association (JMEA), Metry Seaga, during the JMEA’s awards gala held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Saturday (October 6).

7 years ago Agriculture

‘Produce Local and Export Global’ – Metry Seaga

Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters’ Association (JMEA) President, Metry Seaga, has charged manufacturers and exporters to “produce local and export global”. He was speaking at the JMEA awards gala held on Saturday (October 6) at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. Mr. Seaga said that manufacturing is showing positive signs with good growth numbers each quarter. “I personally am very...

7 years ago Health & WellnessHOPE Programme

More HOPE Workers for Westmoreland Vector Control Programme

Vector Control Officer at the Westmoreland Health Department, Ryan Morris, says the Aedes Aegypti mosquito population in the parish should decrease with the help of the second cohort of 25 Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment (HOPE) programme vector control workers. Mr. Morris informed JIS News that the mosquito population had increased with the recent heavy rains, and the HOPE programme...