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Minister Charles Jr. Calls For Positive Behaviour Change Towards Plastic Pollution

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Pearnel Charles Jr. is calling for positive behaviour change towards plastic pollution as the Government gears up to implement the third phase of the ban on single-use plastics come June 2021....

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Heightened Road Construction Activities Set for Morant Bay

Resident Representative of the Organization of American States (OAS), Jeanelle van GlaannenWeygel (second left) and Director of Training and Information at the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), Delmares White (right), with ODPEM’s Training Officer, Kristen Rhone (centre) and Coordinator for the National Disaster Risk Management Volunteer Programme, Diamonette Syncon (second right), who both completed Basic Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training with the OAS. Both women were handed emergency kits with equipment to carry out fieldwork at a handover ceremony, held at ODPEM’s New Kingston Offices, on February 22. At left is OAS Administrative Technician, Kerry-ann Parchment.

ODPEM Training Officers Complete Certification Course

All In Place To Mark Birthday Of Bustamante On February 24

Behaviour Change Communication Coordinator at the National Family Planning Board, Marion Waysome-McIntyre, addresses JIS ‘Think Tank’, on February 22.

NFPB To Launch Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Campaign

5 years ago Environment

Youth Encouraged To Innovate

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., is encouraging youth to innovate eco-friendly solutions, in light of the pending implementation of the third phase of the plastic ban. “This is not an end to life as we know it, but a call, particularly to our youth, to innovate and create viable business models and...

Principal of Little Bay Primary and Infant School in Westmoreland, Keron King.

5 years ago Education

Principal Of Little Bay Primary To Be Recognised

Principal of the Little Bay Primary and Infant School in Westmoreland, Keron King, is being recognised again for his outstanding contribution to the institution and the Little Bay community. Mr. King is one of 50 persons to be awarded at the Sagicor Community Heroes Awards ceremony, which is slated to be held on Friday, February 26, at The Jamaica Pegasus...

5 years ago Ananda Alerts

High Alert For Missing Child, Franz Parkes

A High Alert has been activated for 12-year-old Franz Parkes of White hall district, St. Elizabeth who has been missing since Saturday, February 20. He is of brown complexion, slim build and about 152 centimetres (5 feet) tall. Reports from the Caymanas Police are that Franz was last seen in Trainline, Gregory Park in St. Catherine about 6:30 p.m. dressed...

Bank of Jamaica Governor, Richard Byles. (JIS File Photo)

5 years ago Finance & Public Service

Plans Advanced To Develop Central Bank Digital Currency

Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Governor, Richard Byles, says plans are advanced to develop and implement the use of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) locally. Speaking during the BOJ’s digital quarterly briefing on Friday (February 19), Mr. Byles said that over the last couple months, the Bank undertook the requisite preliminary work relating to assessments and protocols for approval of...

5 years ago Finance & Public Service

NIR Adequate To See Country Through COVID-19 Crisis – Byles

Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Governor, Richard Byles, says Jamaica’s net international reserves (NIR), totalling just under US$3 billion as at February 16, should be “quite adequate” to see the country through the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic crisis. Speaking during the BOJ’s digital quarterly briefing on Friday (February 19), Mr. Byles said that notwithstanding the fallout in tourism earnings due to a...

Deputy Mayor of Montego Bay, Councillor Richard Vernon, speaks at the commissioning of a new computer lab at the Montego Bay Boys and Girls Club, in St. James, on February 15.

5 years ago Technology

Deputy Mayor Wants More CAPs In St. James

Deputy Mayor of Montego Bay, Councillor Richard Vernon, says it is important that more community access points (CAPs) be established in the city and the wider St. James community. “If we have a more educated population, then they will be able to help us with the smart city concept and also to push the smart city development,” Mr. Vernon outlined....

An aerial view of a mangrove forest in Trelawny.

5 years ago Environment

Progress Being Made In Mangrove Restoration

Progress is being made in wetland forest (mangrove) restoration locally, says University of the West Indies (UWI) Marine Biologist, Dr. Camilo Trench. Citing a 2013 report published by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), which stated that Jamaica had lost more than 2,000 hectares of mangroves between 1989 and 2010, Dr. Trench said that collaborative efforts have led to...