Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, has commended Jamaicans for their level of compliance with the coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions imposed by Government over the last two weekends, to stem the spread of the virus. Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, announced the measures at a recent press conference, which include extended weekend curfews to restrict the movement...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of National Security, Senator the Hon. Matthew Samuda, says that more than 2,000 entrepreneurs are benefiting under the pilot phase of the E-Commerce National Delivery System (ENDS). The programme was first rolled out on March 26 in Portmore, St Catherine, and expanded to Montego Bay, St. James, and Kingston and St. Andrew on April...

Jamaica is pleased to join in the commemoration of the first anniversary of the establishment of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), an occasion which also recalls the entry into force of the Revised Georgetown Agreement on 5th April 2020. That occasion heralded the transition of the former African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States into...

The National Water Commission (NWC) is advising the public that it continues its Customer Census Mapping Project in the parish of Westmoreland.  The NWC Customer Census Mapping Project involves a door-to-door survey of existing and potential NWC customers and mapping them using global positioning system (GPS) devices so that the NWC can use this digital information in its continuous service improvement efforts. The...

His Worship the Mayor of Kingston, Senator Delroy Williams, has reported that the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) issued in excess of 6000 meals to members of the homeless population during the Easter holidays lockdown. Williams highlighted that the KSAMC's Poor Relief Department along with support from Councillors, corporate Jamaica, volunteers and various church groups, prepared and distributed...

The island’s largest Independent Power Provider (IPP), Jamaica Energy Partners Group, is proud to announce that fifty-nine more students/teachers residing in St Catherine, Western and Eastern Kingston are the Company’s newest recipients of tablets under its tablet distribution programme. Last week, members of the Group’s Human Resources and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) team granted the Ministry of Education, Youth and...

On April 1, 20021, Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) met with representatives of financial holding company designates (FHC) and deposit taking institutions (DTIs) and agreed the following: Effective immediately, the boards of FHCs and DTIs can choose to resume the distributions of dividends to shareholders owning more than one per cent of issued shares which had been declared for their 2019...