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Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr. (right), in conversation with Head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Jamaica, Her Excellency Marianne Van Steen, when she called on him at Jamaica House on November 6.

PHOTOS: Minister Pearnel Charles Jr. with EU Ambassador

Education, Youth and Information Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams (fourth left), is joined by staff and students of Brampton Primary School, in Trelawny, who were presented with 45 tablets on Friday, November 6, under the Government’s Tablets in Schools Programme.

Brampton Primary School Students Receive Tablets

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green (left), engages in discussion with from (centre), Secretary of the Jamaica Association of Sugar Technologists (JAST), Rev. Paulette Wright and President, Michael Martin, at the 83rd annual conference of the JAST at the Sugar Industry Authority Conference Centre in Mandeville on November 5.

New Board of SIA to be Appointed Before Month End

One of the classrooms at Moore Town Primary and Junior High School in Portland, which now has desks placed six-feet apart.

Moore Town Primary Happy To Be Part Of Pilot For Face-To-Face Classes

Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, addresses the Ministry's weekly virtual COVID-19 Conversations press briefing on Thursday (November 5).

59 COVID-19 Recoveries At Cornwall Courts

5 years ago Health & Wellness

Dr. Tufton Hails St. Thomas An Example Of Best Practice In Covid-19 Response

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,...

5 years ago CoronavirusHealth & WellnessTourism

Minister Bartlett Calls for Empathetic Leadership during COVID-19 Pandemic

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. (FILE)

5 years ago Environment

Caribbean Developers Urged To Build With Nature In Mind

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...

Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, responds to questions from journalists regarding the revised coronavirus (COVID-19) infection prevention and control protocols for the workplace, as well as other matters, during a digital press conference hosted by the Ministry of Health and Wellness in September. (FILE)

5 years ago CommunityCoronavirusHealth & Wellness

Communities Implored To Cooperate With Health Teams

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...

Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health and Wellness, Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie..

5 years ago CoronavirusHealth & Wellness

COVID-19 Cases Trending Downwards

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...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (fourth left), partcipates in a ceremony for the handing over of tablets to students of the Drews Avenue Primary and Infant School in St. Andrew on November 4. Displaying devices (from left) are Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams; Chairman, Drews Avenue Primary and Infant School, Naomi Francis; students at the institution, Shanaouyah Laird and Odaine Dixon; Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Hon. Daryl Vaz; student, Anecia Stewart; and Chairman, e-Learning Jamaica Company Limited, Christopher Reckord.

5 years ago EducationInformationYouth

PM Monitoring Situation Of Children Being Out Of School

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says he has been closely tracking the situation of children being out of school due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. He noted that the absence of in-person learning has had a “terrible impact on our learning as a nation. Our children have truly been deprived and are, indeed, I would say, way behind...

Members of the Kiwanis Club of Discovery Bay, in St. Ann, engage in a beautification project at the Discovery Bay High School, as part of efforts to boost the aesthetics of the institution.

5 years ago EnvironmentYouth

Discovery Bay High Gets Facelift

The aesthetics of the Discovery Bay High School in St. Ann has received a boost, courtesy of the Kiwanis Club of Discovery Bay. President of the Club, Marlene Edwards, told JIS News that as part of Kiwanis International’s recent annual one-day project initiative, members of the club journeyed to the one-year-old high school, where trees were planted in old tyres...