The cardiac centre at the Bustamante Hospital for Children, in Kingston, will be opened in April 2016. This was disclosed by Minister of Health, Hon. Horace Dalley, prior to breaking ground for a new state-of-the-art cancer treatment centre at the St. Joseph’s Hospital, in Kingston, on February 4. “Children are dying because we don’t have enough space, we don’t have...

Friday, February 5, 2016 - Art for Life, a programme that has been conceptualized and implemented by the Ministry of Youth and Culture, has over the years provided an avenue for children in state care to express themselves through the creative arts - dance, dub poetry, music, drama and art. To date, dozens of girls from the South Camp Road...

President of the Trelawny Branch Societies of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Wendell Stewart, says over 2,000 farmers from the parish will be involved in the Hague Agricultural and Livestock Show, to be staged at the Hague show grounds, on Ash Wednesday, February 10. Speaking during a JIS ‘Think Tank’, in Montego Bay, on February 2, Mr. Stewart said some...

Mr Speaker, on previous occasions I have advised this honourable house that there was a deficit in the number of teachers qualified to teach Mathematics in the public education system. About 22 per cent of the approximately 1800 teachers deployed to the secondary system are fully qualified. As an interim measure, since 2014, the Ministry of Education introduced a cadre...

Prime Minister the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller on Tuesday (February 2) signed six contracts with a combined value of $182 million for the rehabilitation of 22 farm roads across Jamaica. Speaking at the National Farm Roads Rehabilitation Programme contract signing held at Jamaica House, Mrs. Simpson Miller noted that the programme is consistent with the development priorities of the...

Prime Minister the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller has assured the nation that the Government is decisively implementing effective vector control measures in light of the Zika Virus threat facing Jamaica and the rest of the Americas. The Prime Minister has however urged citizens to play their part to stem the spread of the virus by destroying mosquito breeding sites,...

The Ministry of Health has heightened its fever and rash surveillance system, as part of measures to monitor suspected cases of the Zika Virus (ZikV). ZikV is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which is found in and around areas where people live, work and play. “The islandwide enhanced surveillance system is in place to monitor all fever and rash cases, neurological...