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Deputy Chairman, Zones of Special Operations Social Intervention Committee and Managing Director, Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeney.
Deputy Chairman, Zones of Special Operations Social Intervention Committee and Managing Director, Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeney.

Effective Social Interventions can Transform Communities – Sweeney

Deputy Chairman, Zones of Special Operations (ZOSOs) Social Intervention Committee, Omar Sweeney, says effective implementation of community-redevelopment, citizen-security and public-safety initiatives can significantly transform vulnerable and volatile communities. Speaking in a recent JIS ‘Issues and Answers’ interview, Mr. Sweeney pointed...
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (left), in discussion with Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie (right), at a ceremony for the handover of 11 new compactor garbage trucks valued at US$1.65 million to the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) held at Jamaica House on Tuesday (October 24). Others (from second left) are Executive Director, NSWMA, Audley Gordon; and Chairman of the agency, Dennis Chung.
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (left), in discussion with Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie (right), at a ceremony for the handover of 11 new compactor garbage trucks valued at US$1.65 million to the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) held at Jamaica House on Tuesday (October 24). Others (from second left) are Executive Director, NSWMA, Audley Gordon; and Chairman of the agency, Dennis Chung.

NSWMA Pre-Feasibility Study Completed
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, addresses the launch of the Reggae Marathon, Half Marathon and 10K at Alhambra Inn in St. Andrew on Tuesday, October 24.
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, addresses the launch of the Reggae Marathon, Half Marathon and 10K at Alhambra Inn in St. Andrew on Tuesday, October 24.

Legacy Projects to Boost Sport Tourism – Minister Grange
Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton. (FILE)
Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton. (FILE)

Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes to cost $77 Billion over Next 15 Years
Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (centre), listens to Race Director, Reggae Marathon, Mr. Alfred ‘Frano’ Francis (left), at the launch of the Reggae Marathon, Half Marathon and 10K events at Alhambra Inn on October 24. At right is Chairman, Reggae Marathon, Mr. Richard Lake.
Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (centre), listens to Race Director, Reggae Marathon, Mr. Alfred ‘Frano’ Francis (left), at the launch of the Reggae Marathon, Half Marathon and 10K events at Alhambra Inn on October 24. At right is Chairman, Reggae Marathon, Mr. Richard Lake.

Ministries Endorse Reggae Marathon

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State Minister for Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green (right), spells his name in sign language during the launch of the Partnership for Literacy Enhancement for the Deaf Project at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in Kingston recently. The project aims to increase the literacy level of hearing-impaired children. It is being implemented by the Jamaica Association for the Deaf (JAD), in partnership with international funding agency, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Observing are Acting Mission Director for USAID, Rebecca Robinson (centre) and Chairman of the Executive Board of the Jamaica Association for the Deaf, Christopher Williams.
EducationYouth

Parent of Hearing-Impaired Teenager Welcomes Literacy Enhancement Project

As the parent of a hearing-impaired teenager, Marcia Hunter welcomes the Partnership for Literacy Enhancement for the Deaf Project, which, she says, will open up academic opportunities for her daughter and positively impact her future ambitions. In an interview with JIS News, Ms. Hunter says her 18-year-old daughter, who attends the Lister Mair/Gilby High School for the Deaf, puts no...
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Angela Mullings (left), looks on as her son, DeShaun Bigby, is being fitted with his braces by Orthotists Lance Weersma (second left) and Dawn McArthur Turner, at the Negril Paediatric Orthotic Clinic on October 11. The clinic, which is now based at the Negril Health Centre in Westmoreland, was recently relocated from its original base at the Sunshine Plaza in the resort town.
Health & WellnessHousing

Paediatric Orthotic Clinic Now at Negril Health Centre

The Paediatric Orthotic Services Clinic in Negril has a new home on the premises of the Negril Health Centre, located at Nonpareil Road in Westmoreland. Formerly a cottage for visiting clinicians, the new facility was opened on October 11, to host a free clinic, which is a project sponsored by RIU Resorts. The clinic, which was formerly located at Negril’s...
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Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (right), in discussion with Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) Country Representative, Jamaica, Dr. Noreen Jack, during the Subregional Legal Training on Non-Communicable Diseases at the Mona Visitors
Health & Wellness

Fight against NCDs Will Continue – Health Minister

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, says the Government will continue to pursue stringent regulations and policies aimed at reducing lifestyle illnesses associated with non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Speaking at the opening session for the Subregional Legal Training on NCDs at the Visitors’ Lodge, University of the West Indies, Mona, on October 24, he said policies and regulatory initiatives,...
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Chair of the Organising Committee of the One Health/One Global Environment Academic Conference and Faculty Forum and lecturer at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, Dr. Henroy Scarlett (sixth left), with members of the event’s organising team following the opening ceremony on Monday, October 23 in Montego Bay.
Health & Wellness

Health Practitioners Attend Global Conference in Mobay

More than 300 health practitioners from across Jamaica and the world are currently participating in the One Health/One Global Environment Academic Conference and Faculty Forum, which is under way at the Hilton Rose Hall and Spa Resort in Montego Bay, St. James. The five-day conference, which is being held under the theme ‘One Health: One Global Environment’, began on October...
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Assistant Superintendent of the Kingston and St Andrew Fire Prevention Division, Nicholas Ogilvie. (FILE)
Local Government

Jamaica Fire Brigade Reports Success in Campaign

The Jamaica Fire Brigade is reporting success in its campaign to raise public awareness on fire safety across the island as the agency observes Fire Safety Awareness Week from October 22 to 28. Assistant Superintendent of the Kingston and St Andrew Fire Prevention Division, Nicholas Ogilvie, told JIS News that this change has come about after years of hard public-education...
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