Four facilities in St. Catherine are slated to benefit from the proceeds of a 5k charity run/walk to take place on Sunday, October 14 in Spanish Town. They are the Spanish Town Infirmary, Alta Vista Children’s Home, the Sunbeam Boys’ Home, and the Spanish Town Skills Training Centre (STSTC). The fundraising event is being staged by the Central Jamaica Conference...

Educator, 92-year-old Dr. Joyce Louise Glasgow, will be recognised for her contribution to science education in Jamaica and internationally, during the 2018 National Honours and Awards ceremony at King’s House on Monday, October 15.  She will receive the Order of Distinction in the Rank of Commander (CD) for her outstanding contribution to Education and Human Resource Development locally and internationally. This...

Four years after displaying bravery in saving the lives of 22 infants during a fire in the Neonatal Care Unit of the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in downtown Kingston, nurses Mrs. Sophia Cameron, Ms. Camille McIntosh and Ms. Verlyn Faithie-Ann Douse will be honoured on Heroes Day, October 15. In an interview with JIS News at the hospital on Friday (October...

Five charities focused on addressing the welfare of the youth, homeless and needy, have benefited from donations totalling $3.05 million from the Kingston Chapter of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA). The entities, which received $610,000 each are Open Arms Development Centre, Missionaries of the Poor, Food For the Poor, Marie Atkins Night Shelter, and Alpha Boys’ School/Alpha Institute....

Prime Minister, the Most. Hon. Andrew Holness, has called on international financial institutions to reconsider how small developing countries are classified for loan consideration. “I am reiterating my call for the international financial institutions to address this present problem known as the middle-income trap. We believe that a special highly indebted middle- income initiative could provide the framework for the...

Approximately 60 engineering graduates, who are benefiting from skills upgrading in China, will be engaged in the expansion of the Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company (JISCO)/Alpart bauxite refinery and development of the Gansu Industrial Park and Special Economic Zone in Nain, St. Elizabeth, when they return to the island. The projects together represent investment of approximately US$6 billion by Chinese entity JISCO,...

An energy-efficient smart TV; an inverter microwave and energy gift baskets are some of the prizes up for grabs in the 2018 Energy Efficiency and Conservation Programme  (EECP) Energy Champion Competition for students and public servants. The competition, which will award winners monthly from October to December, requires entrants to ‘like’ any of the EECP’s social media pages, and to...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the newly launched Festo Authorised and Certified Training (FACT) Centre at the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) in Kingston is expected to go a far way in filling Jamaica’s demand for engineers. The facility, which was officially opened by the Prime Minister on Wednesday (September 19), has the capacity to train and certify...

Patients at the Black River Hospital in St. Elizabeth, should see an improvement in the delivery of care, following the launch of the Ministry of Health's Compassionate Care Programme at the facility on Thursday (September 20). Speaking at the ceremony, Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, said it is important that healthcare professionals strike a balance between clinical...