Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, on Tuesday (December 1), tabled legislation to facilitate the continued withdrawal of $11.4 billion annually from the National Housing Trust (NHT) to support the Budget for the next five years. The Bill, the National Housing Trust (Amendment) Act, 2020, is among three pieces of legislation tabled that are...

Custos of Clarendon, William Shagoury, has donated 60 tablet computers to benefit students of six secondary institutions in the parish. The beneficiaries are from Edwin Allen High, Clarendon College, Vere Technical High, Central High, Denbigh High, and Foga Road High schools. The devices, along with 120 educational books, were handed over to the school principals and vice principals during a...

Forty-six wards of the State were recently presented with tablets to assist with their schooling through a partnership between the Transformation Implementation Unit (TIU) and the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA). The tablets were presented to children in State care who were successful in four or more Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency (CAPE) subjects...

The National Water Commission (NWC) is now enforcing a massive and widespread disconnection drive to collect outstanding payments from customers who have arrears with the utility company. Earlier this year, the NWC had made offers to delinquent customers to settle their arrears under the COVID Assistance Programme (CAP). Under this arrangement, residential customers were offered a thirty percent (30%) discount...

The Meteorological Service Division of the Ministry of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change has released figures for the just-concluded 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season, which show record levels of activity surpassing even the figures that were forecast. According to the Meteorological Service, the prediction of the US National Hurricane Center released in May 2020 concerning the activity expected during...

The National Works Agency (NWA) is advising that, over the next ten days, motorists may experience periodic delays as they traverse a section of the main road from Montego Bay to Johns Hall, St. James. Repair works are to to be undertaken on the section of roadway leading to the intersection of the roads to the Hurlock and Friendship communities....

As the world observed World AIDS Day yesterday (December 1), some experts in the field are saying that since COVID-19 surfaced, more persons living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are inquiring about antiretroviral therapy (ART). Executive Director, Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL), Kandasi Levermore, told JIS News that the organisation, which she spearheads, has “seen more interest in...