The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) is advising agriculture and community tourism stakeholders who previously submitted business proposals for matching grant support, under phase two of the Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI II) Project, that contact is currently being made with those who met the pre-qualification requirements under their initial assessment. Project Manager for REDI II at JSIF, Kemeisha Batchan,...

Minister of Tourism and Chair of the high-level Organization of American States (OAS) Working Group, that is currently developing an action plan, for the recovery of the cruise and airline industries, Edmund Bartlett, is calling for careful consideration of the universal recognition and interoperability of systems regarding COVID- 19 vaccines. The Minister made the call during yesterday’s 4th meeting of...

Owners and operators of gaming machines and prescribed premises are being reminded by the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC) to renew their licences by April 1, 2021. Application forms are available on the BGLC website at www.bglc.gov.jm. Fees must first be paid to Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ), then to BGLC via Bill Express, online or any of their 200...

Thirty-five Department of Correctional Services (DCS) employees have benefited from life skills training aimed at building the entity’s capacity to better interact with and intervene in the lives of juvenile offenders. The four-day training-of-trainers virtual workshop, which took place last month, included staff at the Metcalfe Street and South Camp juvenile remand and correctional centres in Kingston, Hilltop Juvenile Correctional...

NEW CASES 24 HRS OVERALL Confirmed Cases 604 33,970 SEX CLASSIFICATION     Females 338   19,066   Males 266 14,901 Under Investigation 0 3 AGE RANGE 2 days  to 96 years 1 day to 104 years         PARISH CLASSIFICATION OF NEW CASES     Clarendon 41 1,903 Hanover 9 961 Kingston & St. Andrew 130 9,624...

The National Housing Trust (NHT) is to extend the cash refund granted to public-sector workers to April 2022. This was announced by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, during his contribution to the 2021/22 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on March 18. Since 2016, some 26,300 public-sector mortgagors have been receiving their contribution refund in cash, annually....

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, has advised that he will be announcing new and stronger coronavirus (COVID-19) infection prevention and control measures, when the current provisions expire on March 22. He was making his 2021/22 Budget Debate presentation in the House of Representatives on Thursday (March 18), under the theme ‘Recovery: Faster, Stronger, Better’. Mr. Holness said the...