The Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) has advised that several schools will be closed on Monday, March 5, as they will be used as polling stations to facilitate the by-elections in St. Andrew North Western and the Norman Gardens Division (Kingston East and Port Royal). Schools that will be closed include Meadowbrook Preparatory and High, Salvation Army School for the...

Preliminary work is under way for the reconstruction of the Walker’s Place of Safety in Kingston. Minister of State for Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green, said that architectural work has started, with one architect providing his services at a reduced cost. “We now have in place a project management team. We have already started some architectural drawings, so...

The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) is expected to acquire 12 garbage trucks in the new fiscal year. A sum of $300 million has been set aside in the 2018/19 Estimates of Expenditure for the undertaking. The Estimates were recently tabled in the House of Representatives by Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw. The new...

The Government is moving to strengthen the system of communication during times of disaster of other emergencies. A sum of $10 million has been allocated to the Emergency Communication System in Jamaica project in the Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project, which is being implemented by the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM),...

Construction for two drop-in centres for homeless persons in the parishes of St. Thomas and Trelawny is expected to be completed in the 2018/19 fiscal year. To facilitate the undertaking, a sum of $28 million has been allocated in the 2018/19 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project is being financed from the Consolidated Fund and...

The Students’ Union of the University of Technology (UTech) is continuing its fight against violence through its annual fundraising Tag Drive, which is being held this year under the theme ‘Keep the Peace, Save our Streets’. Dubbed ‘a special campaign seeking to stop violence against women’, the Tag Drive, now in its 52nd year, is set to take the message...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (right), greets Ambassador Designate of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Nguyen Trung Thanh, when he arrived at the Office of the Prime Minister for a courtesy call on Thursday (February 22).