The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information has received $10 million from the JMMB-Joan Duncan Foundation for the ‘One Laptop or Tablet Per Child’ Initiative, which aims to provide needy students with the requisite tools to function in the teaching and learning environment. A symbolic cheque was presented to Portfolio Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams, by Foundation Chair, Patricia Duncan Sutherland;...

Persons who took up the National Water Commission (NWC) offer to settle outstanding bills under its COVID-19 Assistance Programme (CAP) will have up to November 30 to pay off their debt. Under the programme, residential and condominium customers were offered a 30 per cent discount on outstanding bills, while commercial customers were offered a 25 per cent discount. The offer...

Community Health Aides (CHA) attached to Westmoreland Health Services will benefit from the staging of a virtual diabetes education forum on Wednesday (November 4). The event is part of activities to mark CHA Week, which is being observed from November 1 to 7 under the theme ‘The Eyes and Ears of the Community’. In an interview with JIS News, Senior...

Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Hon. Daryl Vaz, says that plans are being put in place to procure up to 268 megawatts of electricity generation from renewable sources by 2025. This includes energy from solar and wind technologies, with 70 megawatts from hydro, biomass and waste technologies. “It is my priority to have the Generation Procurement Entity established and...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness will be collaborating with community youth groups in St. James on an outreach mask-making project as part of the nation’s coronavirus (COVID-19) response effort. Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, made the disclosure during a COVID-19 youth consultation meeting in Moy Hall, St. James, on October 30. He pointed out...

Importers and exporters are now seeing a faster turnaround time for the approval of certificates and permits through the Trade Board Limited’s online platform. Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Dr. the Hon. Norman Dunn, said that the agency is moving from a two to three-day turnaround time for the processing of transactions to 24...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, is hailing the decision by the United States (US) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to lift its no-sail order for ships in US ports as a step in the right direction. Speaking in a recent interview with JIS News, Mr. Bartlett said that while it will take some time for full normality...