The Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) is to enter into negotiations with the National Land Agency (NLA) for the sale of the Constant Spring Market to facilitate the expansion of the Constant Spring Road corridor. A resolution giving effect to this was approved by the Corporation at its meeting held in the Council Chamber located on Church Street...

Some 140 residents of Bath, St. Thomas, have benefited from a community intervention workshop hosted by the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) held recently at the Bath Anglican Church in the parish. The workshop was held as part of the agency’s Parent Month activities in November. Areas covered during the sessions include conflict resolution – how to solve...

Select locations of the Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) will be extending their opening days to include Saturday, December 16 and 23 to accommodate the anticipated seasonal rush. Speaking with JIS News, Manager, Marine Wharves at the JCA, Alicia Christian Scott said while Customs House will be open on both Saturdays, persons using other warehouses should check to ensure the relevant...

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Hon. Olivia Grange, has hailed the Government of Jamaica/University of the West Indies (UWI) Sugar Heritage Film Project as an important undertaking for the preservation of Jamaica’s rich heritage. She noted that the country’s ethnic, economic and cultural history up to this point has been inextricably tied to sugar. “It was sugar...

The National Works Agency is advising motorists that a section of the North-coast Highway, near Hague, Trelawny has been closed with immediate effect. The closure resulted from serious failure in a section of the embankment forming the road. Manager, Communication and Customer Services at the NWA, Stephen Shaw says that heavy rains in the parish yesterday caused debris to clog...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, is again calling on the private sector to increase its investment in the economy. He said the Government is working “very hard to ensure that every single Jamaican entrepreneur who has the industry, the drive, the enterprise, the entrepreneurship can, in the Jamaican environment, take the risk and invest”. The Prime Minister was...

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, is imploring Jamaicans to start taking responsibility for their own health as a first line of defence against illness. “Jamaicans have to come to terms – and we have to keep making that point – that your personal health requires, in the first instance, you taking responsibility for taking care of yourself....