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Bank Of Jamaica Readies For Launch Of Electric Foreign Exchange Trading Platform

Bank of Jamaica’s (BOJ’s) ongoing reform of the foreign exchange (FX) market is poised to take another significant step. The long-awaited electronic FX Trading Platform (FXTP) is almost here. The platform will facilitate real time electronic FX trading and observation...

Caribbean Turning Tide On COVID-19

Disaster Preparedness Coordinator for Westmoreland, Hilma Tate.

Hurricane Preparations In Westmoreland In High Gear

Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC), Information Technology Manager, Andrew Evelyn.

Parents Encouraged To Monitor Gadgets And Online Platforms Used By Children

Firefighters from the Santa Cruz Fire Station in St. Elizabeth, Junior Smith (left) and Akeva Graham, at work on Labour Day (Monday, May 25).

Junction Market In St. Elizabeth Cleaned

Prime Minister, the Most Honourable
Andrew Michael Holness, ON, PC, MP

6 years ago Coronavirus

Disembarkation Process Complete for Repatriated Jamaican RCCL Ship Workers – PM

I am pleased to announce that the disembarkation process for Jamaican workers on the ‘Adventure of the Seas’ cruise line ship operated by Royal Caribbean Limited (RCCL) was completed this afternoon (May 25) at the Falmouth Pier in Trelawny. The final batch of Jamaicans left the vessel this morning. The management of RCCL has reported that 1024 of the 1044 Jamaicans...

Prime Minister the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (left) interacting with Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange during the ceremony for the National Labour Day project at St. William Grant Park in downtown Kingston on Monday (May 25).

6 years ago CoronavirusLabour

Jamaicans Urged To Follow Protocols As They Return To Work On June 1

Prime Minister the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, is encouraging Jamaicans who will be returning to work on June 1, to act responsibly and follow the protocols that have been implemented to lessen the possibility of their contracting the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and minimise the spread of the virus. “We know the measures that we have to take until we get...

Mount Salem, St. James resident, Balvin Brown, removes bulky waste from a section of his back yard on Labour Day (May 25).

6 years ago Community

Residents Of Mount Salem Labour At Home

Residents of Mount Salem, St. James, are taking this year’s Labour Day theme ‘Labour at Home’ to heart, as they have embarked on extensive cleaning and sanitization of their homes. The theme for this year’s Labour Day, which was observed on May 25, is relevant in light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the social distancing measures implemented by the Government...

6 years ago CommunityPrime Minister

Labour Day Message 2020 by Prime Minister The Most Hon. Andrew Holness, MP

My fellow Jamaicans, With giant leaps in science and technology, mankind may sometimes have a false sense of invincibility about the global civilization we have created. The COVID-19 Pandemic has exposed just how fragile we are and how vulnerable our connected world can be, ironically, by virtue of that same connectedness. We know that disruption is part of the natural...

6 years ago CommunityOpposition

Labour Day Message 2020 by Leader of the Opposition, Dr. Peter Phillips, MP

My fellow Jamaicans, Labour Day 2020 comes during one of the most severe challenges with unprecedented social problems brought on the COVID-19 Pandemic. Social distancing and other restrictions have forced us to adapt to a “new normal” and “Labour at Home” instead of at our usual community building projects. With every challenge, comes an opportunity. However, remember when you build...

6 years ago CoronavirusHealth & Wellness

COVID-19 Update: Recoveries up by 11 with 2 new COVID-19 Cases

Total cases now 552; 211 recoveries In the last 24 hours, 11 more patients have recovered and have been discharged from isolation, bringing the total number of patients recovered and released to 211(38% recovery rate). Meanwhile, two (2) new samples have tested positive for COVID-19, which brings the total confirmed COVID-19 cases in Jamaica to 552. Jamaica now has 332...

The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange (3rd left) and the Mayor of Kingston, Senator Councillor Delroy Williams (left), join the work crew from Carib Cement Company and Jamaica Pre-Mix in a Labour Day sanitisation project at Mandela Park in Half Way Tree. Also pictured are: Sales Manager at Carib Cement Garen Williams; Managing Director of Jamaica Pre-Mix Limited, John Valentine; and Industrial and Builders Manager at Carib Cement, Andre Nelson.

6 years ago CommunityCoronavirus

Grange: Sanitising of Public Spaces, an Excellent Labour Day Project

The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has commended Caribbean Cement Company and Jamaica Pre-Mix Limited who have sanitised public spaces around three parks in the corporate area as their Labour Day project. The companies collaborated on the sanitisation project at Mandela Park, St William Grant Park and Papine Park on Sunday (today). Minister Grange...