Assistant Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, says the number of prequalified vaccine manufacturers under the World Health Organization’s (WHO) COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) Facility could increase by the end of February. Speaking during PAHO’s coronavirus (COVID-19) digital briefing on January 27, Dr. Barbosa said while agreements have been brokered with “many producers” under...

Jamaicans are being encouraged to consider the use of Restorative Justice (RJ) as a method for resolving conflicts. Restorative Justice is a type of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) method, focused on achieving conflict resolution through the use of conferences. Coordinator of the Justice Ministry’s Restorative Justice Programme, Andriene Lindsay, told JIS News that a core concept of the process is...

Landlords and tenants are being encouraged to utilise the dispute resolution services of the Rent Assessment Board (RAB) within the Ministry of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change. “The purpose of the RAB is to serve as an unbiased party in settling disputes between tenants and landlords as guided by the Rent Restriction Act. I want to encourage landlords...

The Heart Foundation of Jamaica (HFJ) is celebrating 50 years of promoting heart health in Jamaica in 2021. Speaking at a recent JIS Think Tank, the entity’s Executive Director, Deborah Chen, said that the milestone comes at a time when the country is facing a pandemic. “This is not at all what we had in mind a few years ago...

Fourteen entrepreneurs from Treadlight, in Clarendon, were presented with equipment valued at $2.2 million, on January 29, through the Integrated Community Development Project (ICDP-II), of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF). To date, three St. James communities and two from Kingston have received similar grants under the project, which is expected to reach many other communities across the island. In...

Minister of Transport and Mining, Honourable Robert Montague, has expressed his profound sadness by the passing of Transportation pioneer, Ralph Smith, who died on Friday, January 29, 2021 after a period of illness. The Transport Minister says the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association Lifetime Achievement awardee has given such significant contribution to the development of the Transport Industry that his...

The Ministry of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change is actively seeking to improve access to and management of the nation’s public beaches, through the development of the Beach Access and Management Policy. “The policy seeks to increase physical and visual access by the public to the foreshore, which is that part of the beach between high and low...