The Ministry of Health will be donating $250,000 to establish a computer lab at the Jamaica Society for the Blind (JSB) through the ‘Everyone’s a Winner’ 5k and 10k run/walk on Sunday, April 29, at Hope Gardens in St. Andrew. Speaking at the media launch for the event Tuesday (April 10) at the JSB headquarters on Old Hope Road in...

In a precedence-setting move, CEO/Commissioner of the Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA), Mrs. Velma Ricketts Walker, has been elected by the membership of the World Customs Organisation (WCO) to serve as Chairperson of the WCO’s Capacity Building Committee (CBC). She has the distinction of being the first female chairperson of the CBC, and the first person from Jamaica and the Caribbean...

Health Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, says approximately 90 per cent of the services provided at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in St. James have been temporarily relocated to other institutions to facilitate renovations to rectify poor air quality affecting patients and staff at the facility. Dr. Tufton, who made the disclosure during a press conference at the Ministry...

Nominations are being invited for the National Medal for Science and Technology. Senior Technology Officer at the National Commission on Science and Technology (NCST), Patricia Lewin, told JIS News that the medal, formerly known as the Prime Minister’s Medal for Science and Technology, “is a national award that recognises the lifelong work of a local scientist who has dedicated his...

The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has described the late former administrator Pat Anderson as “one of the pioneers who laid the foundation for Jamaica’s success in sports.” Mr Anderson, who led both the Jamaica Football Federation and the Jamaica Amateur Athletic Association (now Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association) during his long career in sports,...

The island’s tourism product has been boosted with the graduation of the first cohort of 150 certified hospitality workers from the Jamaica Centre of Tourism Innovation (JCTI). The JCTI, which was created to increase access to certification for recent graduates as well as workers in the industry, saw, for the first time, persons being accredited as Hospitality Supervisors and in...

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, says the Government will be pumping $150 million into improving the aesthetic appeal of markets across the island. He said the investment “represents one of the highest expenditures… over the past five years on markets across the country” and charged vendors to take care of the improved facilities that will...