Principal of Moore Town Primary and Junior High School in Portland, Kathleen Wright, is welcoming the Government’s decision to reopen the small, rural institution for face-to-face lessons beginning Monday (November 9). A total of 17 primary and secondary institutions across nine parishes will participate in the two-week pilot. They were selected from a group of 73 deemed to be at...

Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, is reporting that 59 residents of Cornwall Courts, St. James, have recovered from the coronavirus (COVID-19). He said that 74 cases of the virus have been identified in the area since it was placed under special curfew from 6:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. daily on October 23. One patient has...

St. Thomas, which is seeing a major decline in active cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19), after experiencing an outbreak earlier this year, is being hailed by Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton,  as an example of a possible best practice in the national COVID-19 response. The parish, which has a population of just over 100,000 persons,...

Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for global policymakers to implement a more empathetic leadership style, while also remaining cautiously optimistic about the future of the industry. The Minister was speaking yesterday at the A World for Travel virtual international event, which focused on the recovery and the development of global travel and...

British High Commissioner to Jamaica, His Excellency Asif Ahmad, is encouraging developers of housing and other infrastructure in the Caribbean to “build with nature in mind”. “Planners, builders and users of property need to understand more fully the environment that is built and the human beings that have to live and thrive within those communities,” he said. “It begins with...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness is imploring residents in communities that have been quarantined due to coronavirus (COVID-19) to cooperate with health teams in getting tested for the virus. Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, who made the appeal at the Ministry’s COVID-19 Conversations digital press conference, on November 5, noted that this is the key means of...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness is reporting that there has been a trending down in the number of new positive coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the country over the past month. Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, who made the announcement, noted that based on the epidemiological curve, there was a plateauing in positive cases over the month of...