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COJ Wants Customers to Take Advantage of COVID-19 Relief Initiative

With many businesses closing due to the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Companies Office of Jamaica is urging customers to take advantage of its COVID-19 Compliance Relief Initiative to assist entities in being officially removed from the Companies and...

Assistant Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Jarbas Barbosa. (Photo © PAHO/WHO)

WHO Sourcing Data On Russian COVID-19 Vaccine

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Jamaica Customs Re-Opens Corporate Offices – Urges Stakeholders to Be Vigilant

Chairman of the MistyBlue Cancer Care Foundation in Westmoreland, Dorothy Satchwell, addresses a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Tank at the agency’s Montego Bay Regional Office in St. James, recently.

Philanthropist Calls For More Cancer-Related Charities

Eight New COVID-19 Cases Identified

Regional Medical Epidemiologist, Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), Dr. Maung Aung, addresses a recent Think Tank at the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Regional Office in Montego Bay, St. James.

6 years ago Health & Wellness

Jamaicans Encouraged To Manage Cancer Risks

Regional Medical Epidemiologist, Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), Dr. Maung Aung, says Jamaicans have a personal responsibility to manage health risks that can lead to cancers. He pointed out that cancers are among the top-five leading cause of death among men and women in Jamaica. “So [for example], we know that we have one in every two persons being obese...

Health and Wellness Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (second right), signs a contract for the provision of dietary services for the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) and Jubilee Hospital (VJH), on Monday (August 10) at the National Chest Hospital in Kingston. Sharing the moment are Board Chairman, South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) Wentworth Charles (left); Managing Director, Patsy Lyn Caterers Limited, Neville Lyn; and Regional Director, SERHA, Maureen Golding.

6 years ago Health & Wellness

Contract Signed for Meals at KPH and VJH

The Ministry of Health and Wellness has allocated $1.164 billion to provide meals at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) and the Victoria Jubilee Hospital (VJH). The three-year contract was signed between the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) and the service provider, Patsy Lyn Caterers Limited, on Monday (August 10) at the National Chest Hospital in Kingston. Under the contract,...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett (left); and Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz, tour a section of Grange Pen in St. James, recently.

6 years ago CommunityHousing

Gov’t Committed To Regularising Informal Communities

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz, says the Government is committed to transforming informal settlements into structured, livable neighbourhoods. “In 2020, there should be no one living in improper infrastructure and, therefore, this Government is committed to [correcting] that,” he said. “What is very clear is that there are informal settlements...

Regional Director, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), Dr. Kevin Harvey (right) presents a cheque valued at just over $1 million to Executive Director of the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF), Dr. Zoe Simpson (left) and Field Operations at the WCFJ, Beverley Martin Berry, at the AHF’s offices in St. Andrew, on August 10. The money will be used to support the WCJF

6 years ago Gender AffairsYouth

Back-To-School Support For Adolescent Parents

The Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF) today (August 10) received a cheque valued at just over $1 million from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), to support and offset back-to-school expenses for adolescent parents. This represents the AHF’s support to the WCJF’s Advancing Secondary, Tertiary Remedial, Education for Adolescent Mothers (A-STREAM) Programme. The A-STREAM programme helps teenage parents to continue...

6 years ago Coronavirus

St. Thomas Quarantine Impacts Morant Bay Tax Office

Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) wishes to advise persons that the Morant Bay Tax Office will be closed from Monday, August 10, 2020 and during the period of the fourteen (14) day COVID-19 quarantine imposed by the Ministry of Health and Wellness in the Church Corner area in the parish of St. Thomas. The closure comes as we have been advised...

6 years ago CoronavirusHealth & Wellness

One More Death, 20 New COVID-19 Cases

The Ministry of Health & Wellness regrets to advise that another COVID-19 positive patient has died. The deceased is a 37 year old male from St. Catherine. This local transmission not epidemiologically linked case brings to 14, the total number of COVID-19-related deaths for the island. At the same time, as at Sunday (August 9), Jamaica recorded 20 new confirmed...

6 years ago Coronavirus

Jamaica Customs to close its Newport East and King Street offices today – August 10

The Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) is advising all its stakeholders that due to an emerging situation, all its offices located at Newport East and King Street, Kingston, will be closed this Monday, August 10, 2020. The JCA is assuring its customers that the entity will continue to provide all online services and that staff will continue to liaise with customers...