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Opposition Spokesperson on Land and the Environment, Senator Sophia Frazer Binns addresses participants at a Best Practice Symposium on Informal Settlements at the Mona Visitors’ Lodge, University of the West Indies (UWI), on March 21.
. — Opposition Spokesperson on Land and the Environment, Senator Sophia Frazer Binns addresses participants at a Best Practice Symposium on Informal Settlements at the Mona Visitors’ Lodge, University of the West Indies (UWI), on March 21. .

Minister Vaz Says BRACED Project Should Be Replicated in Other Vulnerable Communities

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz, is suggesting that the Habitat for Humanity International’s Building Resilience and Capacities for Emerging Disasters (BRACED) project, being undertaken in Portmore, St. Catherine, be replicated...

Founder of Trumpet Call Ministries, Reverend Mary Wildish.

Jamaica to Host International Religious Crusade

Members of the clergy who participated in a JIS Think Tank at the agency’s Montego Bay Regional Office on March 20 (from left), Reverend Glendon Powell of the Open Bible Church of Unity Hall and Flanker; Reverend Mary Wildish, founder of Trumpet Call Ministries; Reverend Marc Mullings, Pastor of the Emmanuel Chapel, Mount Salem, St. James; and Teverly Grant of Trumpet Call Ministries.

Churches’ Role in Uniting the Nation Underscored

The inaugural staging of the Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Festival will take place March 23 to 25 at Newcastle in St. Andrew.

Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Festival Begins on March 23

Finance and the Public Service Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw, delivering the closing 2018/19 Budget Debate Presentation in the House of Representatives on March 21.
Donald De La Haye Photo — Finance and the Public Service Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw, delivering the closing 2018/19 Budget Debate Presentation in the House of Representatives on March 21. Donald De La Haye Photo

Gov’t Remains Committed to Indirect Taxation Policy

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang.

8 years ago Office of the Prime MinisterVision 2030

PIOJ Launches National Poverty Reduction Programme

The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), in collaboration with the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, has launched the National Poverty Reduction Programme (NPRP). The programme, which was launched at the Spanish Court Hotel, New Kingston, on Wednesday (March 21), aims to significantly reduce and eradicate poverty by 2030 through a framework facilitating efforts to this end. Minister without...

Health Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (left), greets Senior Programme Officer with the International Development Research Centre in Canada, Dr. Zee Leung, during a workshop for the ‘Improving Household Nutrition Security and Public Health in CARICOM’ project at The Courtleigh Hotel & Suites, New Kingston, on March 21. Looking on is Director of the George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre and Deputy Dean for Research and Graduate Programmes, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, Professor Alafia Samuels.

8 years ago Health & Wellness

Health Minister Endorses CARICOM Wellness Initiative

Health Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, has endorsed a CARICOM-led initiative aimed at reducing lifestyle diseases across the Caribbean through improved diets. The four-year project, dubbed ‘Improving Household Nutrition Security and Public Health in CARICOM’, will feature coordinated interventions within national food systems that promote sustainable livelihoods of vulnerable groups, in order to combat obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases...

Education, Youth and Information State Minister, Hon. Floyd Green (left); and Custos Rotulorum for St. Andrew, Hon. Patricia Dunwell (second left), share a moment with Founder of the Dental Hygienists Association of Jamaica, Stacianne Tennant (second right), and Chief Dental Officer, Ministry of Health, Dr. Irving McKenzie, during the DHAJ

8 years ago Governor GeneralHealth & Wellness

Dental Hygienists Association Launched

Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, says dental hygienists can be justly proud of their contribution to Jamaica, as they continually use their passion for service delivery to advance oral health literacy among the population. He also congratulated them on the launch of the Dental Hygienists Association of Jamaica (DHAJ). “As a professional association, you can be...

Executive Director of the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF), Dr. Zoe Simpson, speaking at a ‘Four Women’ cultural series held recently at the Institute of Jamaica Lecture Hall, East Street, downtown Kingston.

8 years ago Gender Affairs

Jamaicans Urged to Change Perception of Adolescent Mothers

Executive Director of the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF), Dr. Zoe Simpson, is calling for a change in how Jamaicans perceive adolescent mothers served by the entity. Noting that some of the girls are verbally abused on the streets, she said that “they are not worthless as some people think”. “They are not lacking in ambition that some people...

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (left), shares a light moment with Marketing Manager, Beverages, Lasco Limited, Catherine Goodall (centre) and Chairman, Guardsman Group, Kenneth Benjamin. They were at the media launch of the Guardsman Games 2018 at the Serengeti Bistro at the Hope Zoo, Hope Gardens, on March 20.

8 years ago Health & Wellness

Dr. Tufton Endorses Guardsman Games

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, has given his endorsement of the third staging of the Guardsman Games, which will be held on July 22 at Hope Zoo, Hope Gardens, St. Andrew. This gruelling six-kilometre, obstacle-course race takes participants through rugged terrain and challenges them to conquer over 25 obstacles, such as scaling walls, crossing balance beams and...

8 years ago Budget 2018/2019DevelopmentPrime Minister

Infrastructural Projects in Falmouth and Ocho Rios

Residents and other stakeholders of Falmouth, Trelawny; and Ocho Rios, St. Ann, stand to benefit significantly from several infrastructural developments being undertaken in those resort towns, which are at various stages of implementation or completion. Among these, according to Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, are construction of the $300-million Bend-Down Market in Falmouth, and the Fisherman’s Complex in...

Senior Director for Programmes at the National Youth Service (NYS), Alicia Williams, highlights the various components of the National Service Corps Programme (NSCP) at a recent JIS ‘Think Tank’.

8 years ago Youth

NYS Senior Director Highlights Importance of NSCP

Senior Director for Programmes at the National Youth Service (NYS), Alicia Williams, has underscored the importance of the National Service Corps Programme (NSCP) in transforming lives and boosting national development. The programme is specifically designed to support young persons between 18 and 24 years old who are not employed or enrolled in an educational institution. Ms. Williams told JIS News...