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...

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...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says Jamaica will continue to forge ties with new and traditional partners in a bid to bolster the country’s national security framework. “We are intensifying our cooperation with our traditional partners (Americans, British and Canadians) but there are new partners...  other countries, as well, that we seek to cooperate with,” he said in...

Hundreds of mourners turned out at the St. Andrew Parish Church on Thursday (September 20) to pay final respects to late former government minister, Easton Wentworth Xavier Douglas. The official funeral was a celebration of a life well-lived and included musical tributes from Pam Hall, DiMario McDowell, and Professor Winston Davidson. The congregation included Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew...