The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has congratulated Jamaica’s teams on their performance at the recently concluded CARIFTA Water Polo Championship in Bahamas. The championship ended on April 9. Jamaica’s under-19 boys’ team won gold while the girls took the silver in their category and the under-16 boys’ copped bronze. “I’m very happy with...

Jamaica’s first cashless system for schools was officially launched yesterday (April 10) during a function at St. George’s College, North Street, downtown Kingston. The system, to be administered by Alliance Payment Services, will shape the way in which payments are made at schools and positively impact safety policies for students and teachers. In her remarks, Manager, Sales and Marketing at...

The Government is partnering with carnival stakeholders to market Jamaica as an entertainment destination. This endeavour aims to enhance brand Jamaica while further boosting the global appeal of carnival, and is being done through collaborations involving several Ministries, investors, developers and organisers of the event. Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, who made the announcement during the recent launch of ‘Carnival...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information is forging international partnerships to address child abuse across the island. Speaking at the launch of Child Month, which is observed annually in May, Minister of State in the Ministry, Hon. Floyd Green, said in an effort to keep our children safe, Jamaica has been designated a ‘Pathfinder Country’, which is a ‘Global...

The Government is reviewing Regulations accompanying the Disaster Risk Management Act, which was passed in Parliament in 2015. Local Government and Community Development Minister, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, says the review is being done to strengthen the provisions and making the legislation more effective, particularly in relation to compulsory evacuations from areas deemed vulnerable to severe weather, such as hurricanes and...

The work of the Social Development Commission (SDC) will be boosted by a Government allocation of $50 million. Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, says the money will be used to improve a number of the organisation's facilities and to enhance their community building programme. In an interview with JIS News, he also disclosed that the...

Minister of Justice, Hon. Delroy Chuck, says the Government is committed to providing the modern legislative framework required to advance Jamaica’s development of a new business architecture. He argues that this is necessary to send a strong signal to the rest of the world about the country’s seriousness and readiness to be positioned as an international financial and business destination....