Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, has announced tighter curfew hours for the parish of Westmoreland, effective Wednesday (December 16). The new curfew hours are 7:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. daily until December 31. In addition, the general gathering limit for public places is being reduced from 15 to 10 persons; the maximum number of persons remains at 15,...

Fifty-one rural-area early-childhood institutions are to benefit from the donation of equipment and supplies to prevent the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) as schools prepare to reopen next year. The items, which were handed over during a ceremony at the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) in Kingston this morning (December 15), include disposable gloves, dust masks, storage bins, garbage bins, hand-washing...

In the nine months since Jamaica recorded its first confirmed case of COVID-19 on March 10, the country now has 11,875 cases of the disease. This is according to a daily cumulative report for December 14, 2020 that is generated by the Health Emergency Operations Centre (HEOC) in the Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW). Over the period, there were...

Nearly 100,000 Jamaicans are poised to benefit from improved water supply, under a major project to be executed with funding support of US$30 million from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). The loan was approved for allocation from the Bank’s Special Resources Funds to the Government of Jamaica, by the CDB’s Board of Directors during their meeting on December 10. A...

Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, says Westmoreland could experience tighter restrictions in short order, as the rate of positive cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) has been spiking in the parish over the past few weeks. To date, Westmoreland has up to 541 confirmed cases, 22 confirmed COVID-19-related deaths and 91 current active cases. In addition,...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) will be maintaining an increased presence in public spaces during the Yuletide season. Speaking at a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Tank on Monday, (December 14), Head of the JCF Corporate Communications Unit (CCU), Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Stephanie Lindsay, said that the police had ramped up its patrol of the streets since November....

Mayor of Montego Bay, Councillor Leeroy Williams, says the decision to cancel Grand Market this year is aimed at protecting residents of the parish against the coronavirus (COVID-19). He said with the knowledge of the risk to health that the virus presents he “could not in good conscience endanger the lives of residents” by staging the traditional Christmas Eve shopping...