The Ministry of Justice is calling on Jamaicans to sign up as mentors for the National Child Diversion Programme. The Programme focuses on diverting children who have come in conflict with the law away from the criminal justice system and using a combination of psychosocial support for rehabilitation. So far, there have been 37 referrals and 27 cautions issued from...

Residents of Kingston and St. Andrew are to benefit from yet another Social Development Commission (SDC) business fair and farmers’ market, on Saturday, July 11. The event will be held at St. Benedict’s Primary School, 7 Miles, Bull Bay, from 6:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. “This event was designed in response to the effect that the global pandemic of COVID-19...

Health and Wellness Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, says the ‘Adopt-A-Clinic’ initiative has garnered widespread support, with Jamaicans based locally and in the diaspora committing $81.4 million to the cause. Dr. Tufton, who made the disclosure during his contribution to the 2020/21 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on July 7, said that 22 clinics have been adopted,...

The Government has invested more than $423 million to improve the health services for high-risk pregnant women at the Spanish Town Hospital in St. Catherine, with the construction of a high-dependency unit (HDU). It is one of four facilities to have been built from funding provided under the Programme for Reduction of Maternal and Child Mortality (PROMAC), which is a...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness has developed a COVID-19 Recovery Plan, with the objective of establishing an adequate legal framework to support and enable the implementation of actions in response to the virus and other biohazard public health emergencies. Portfolio Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, made the announcement during his contribution to the 2020/21 Sectoral Debate in the...

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Lester Michael Henry (left), listens to Canadian High Commissioner, Her Excellency Laurie Peters, when she visited the Ministry in Kingston, on Wednesday (July 8).

The Ministry of National Security, through the recently ended Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP), virtually engaged more than 200 youth in pre-vocational and vocational skills training. Between April and June, the participants from the Kingston Metropolitan Area, Central and Western regions were engaged in Mathematics, English and Life Skills Education three times per week. The training programmes were scheduled...