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Aedes Index Low In Westmoreland

Medical Officer of Health for Westmoreland, Dr. Marcia Graham, has informed that the Aedes index in the parish has decreased. She was addressing the monthly meeting of the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation in Savanna-la-Mar on January 14. “As at mid-December, our...

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Audley Shaw (JIS File Photo)

Gov’t Strengthening Capacity Of Labs To Undertake COVID-19 Tests

Taxpayer Education Officer at Tax Administration Jamaica, Rogerlene Miller.

Business Operators Encouraged To Maintain Proper Records

Chief Executive Officer of the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC), Dolsie Allen. (JIS File Photo)

CAC Implores Persons Not To Test For COVID-19 At Unauthorised Entities

Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Carissa F. Etienne.

PAHO Will Continue To Work With Member States To Manage COVID-19 – Director

Minister of State in the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, Hon. Homer Davis (left), and Managing Director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeney (right), display a cheque for $2.3 million to procure equipment for 11 microenterprises in Anchovy, in St. James, at a handover ceremony, held at the Montego Bay Convention Centre, in Rose Hall, on Thursday, January 21.

5 years ago Local Government

JSIF Donates Equipment To Microenterprises In Anchovy, St. James

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) has donated equipment, valued at $2.3 million, to boost the production and sustainability of 11 microenterprises in the community of Anchovy, St. James. This has been made under the Enterprise Development Project that is being implemented by JSIF, under the second phase of the Government’s Integrated Community Development Project (ICDP). The beneficiaries include farmers,...

Children’s Advocate, Diahann Gordon Harrison. (JIS File Photo)

5 years ago Youth

Office Of Children’s Advocate To Establish Helpline

The Office of the Children’s Advocate (OCA) will be establishing a Child Helpline to provide 24-hour assistance to children seeking its services. Children’s Advocate, Diahann Gordon Harrison, told JIS News that the OCA aims to launch the helpline in the first quarter of this year. “What we are doing is putting together a child helpline which provides remote and direct...

Executive Director of the Transformation Implementation Unit (TIU), Maria Thompson Walters, addresses staff who will deliver Human Resource (HR) Shared Services during an orientation exercise at the Shared Corporate Jamaica headquarters at 6 Saxthorpe Avenue in Kingston on Thursday (Jan. 21).

5 years ago Information

HR Shared Services Begin February

The Government will begin the roll out of Shared Corporate Services (SCS) next month, with the delivery of Human Resource (HR) Shared Services. Sixteen individuals from various entities across the public sector, who will be engaged in this pilot phase, have been trained and installed in their new posts. They will operate from the Shared Corporate Jamaica headquarters at 6...

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, addressing Wednesday’s (Jan. 20) post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House in St. Andrew.

5 years ago EnvironmentInformation

Cabinet Approves Contracts For Sewerage And Shoreline Protection Works

Cabinet approved three contracts totalling $906.5 million for sewerage construction and improvement works as well as a shoreline protection project. Details of the undertakings were provided by Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, during Wednesday’s (Jan. 20) post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House in St. Andrew. She informed that Cabinet gave approval for a $649.4 million contract...

Principal of Little Bay Primary and Infant School in Westmoreland, Keron King, shows off the satellite dish, which powers the school’s Internet, provided by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information through partnership with ReadyTV under its ReadyNet satellite Internet service.

5 years ago Education

Face-To-Face Classes Going Well At Little Bay Primary And Infant

Principal of Little Bay Primary and Infant School in Westmoreland, Keron King, says students are adapting well to the phased resumption of face-to-face classes. The in-person lessons, which started on January 11, are being held alongside online classes. Grade six students, who will sit the first of three components of the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) on February 23, attend school...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke. (File Photo)

5 years ago Finance & Public Service

Privatisation Programme To Resume Shortly

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, says the Government is looking to shortly resume its programme of privatising State assets, which was deferred following the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in Jamaica. He said that among the pending engagements is the privatisation of the State’s interests in the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS); the Jamaica Mortgage...

Corporate Public Relations Manager at the National Water Commission (NWC), Andrew Canon.

5 years ago Water

NWC Rolls Out New Interactive Voice Response System To Improve Customer Service

The National Water Commission (NWC) has announced that it recently implemented an Automatic Call Distribution (ACD) and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system, to improve its customer service when persons call its Contact Centre. “When persons dial the NWC’s toll-free number, they will now be taken through a series of choices that allow them to access information and options. Such information...