Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, will officially install dermatologist Dr. Patricia Marshall Dunwell, as Custos Rotulorum for the parish of St. Andrew. Dr. Marshall Dunwell was sworn in during a brief ceremony held at King’s House on June 30. The installation ceremony will be held at the Annuals Gardens, Hope Gardens on Thursday (August 18) beginning...

Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, has hailed the initiators, sponsors and coordinators of the 25-year-old Governor –General’s Achievement Awards (GGAA). He said the reasons for the award scheme to last for a quarter century had to do with the “firm foundations” that were established at the inception in 1991, under the late former Governor-General, Sir Howard...

Chairman of the Registrar General’s Department (RGD), Danville Walker, is urging State agencies with responsibility for protecting the identity of citizens to start working together to produce one database for Jamaicans. Speaking at the opening of the inaugural Caribbean Civil Registration and Identity Management conference at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in Rose Hall, St. James, on July 7, Mr....

Jamaica is leading the region in terms of the administration of surveys and statistics. “Jamaica is the country in the Caribbean that produces the most statistics and on the most frequent basis,”  says Director General at the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), Carol Coy. She told JIS News that a number of countries in the region do not produce the...

Fifty retirees of the former Ministries of Agriculture and Fisheries and  Industry, Investment  and Commerce were honoured on March 31, for their years of dedicated service. The ceremony,  which was held at the Terra Nova All Suite Hotel, in Kingston, saw  the  retirees being honoured  for one to 10 years  service,   11 to 24 years  and 25 years and over....

The   Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has won the general election, which was held on February 25. Preliminary results show that the JLP, led by Mr. Andrew Holness, has won 33 seats, while the People’s National Party (PNP), led by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, won 30 seats.  In the 2011 general election the JLP won 21 seats,...

Several of the country’s long serving public sector workers, who were recently awarded for dedicated and quality service, are expressing pleasure at the recognition. “I feel honoured…that there is appreciation… for the hard work that has been done (by public servants)…in the government service,” says Director of the National Meteorological Service, Evan Thompson, “We are pulling forward in a positive...