The Ministry of Health and Wellness is to employ an additional 1,300 community health aides (CHAs) as part of a strategic framework to prepare the population to live with the coronavirus (COVID-19). The Ministry has already received approval from the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service for the undertaking, and the Regional Health Authorities (RHAs) have begun the process...

Fifty-three nursing and midwifery students of the University of Technology (UTech) have been provided with care packages by the Save Our Boys and Girls Foundation as part of the entity’s coronavirus (COVID-19) relief efforts. Wife of the Prime Minister and Founder of the charity, the Most Hon. Juliet Holness, made the presentation on Tuesday (May 19), during a ceremony held...

The National Works Agency (NWA) is rehabilitating sections of roadway in the parishes of Westmoreland and St. James. In Westmoreland, the Mount Airy to Orange Hill roadway in Negril is being repaired at a cost of $22.3 million. Community Relations Officer at the NWA (Western Region), Janel Ricketts, told JIS News that the project includes construction of concrete cross drains,...

The Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) will host another event in its virtual series for creatives, dubbed JBDC 'In Concert', on Thursday, May 21. The event, under the theme ‘Scene 8: Money Moves (Dance and Theatre)’, is scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m. It will be facilitated via the ZOOM online meeting platform. JBDC 'In Concert' is organised in collaboration...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, says grants under the Supporting Employees with the Transfer of Cash (SET Cash) component of the Government’s COVID Allocation of Resources for Employees (CARE) Programme, are expected to be disbursed this week. He advised that applications for some 26,000 persons are being processed, adding that “I am expecting...

Teachers at the Providence Heights Infant school in Montego Bay, St. James. have been using creative methods to celebrate the 230 students enrolled at the institution for Child Month, amid the closure of schools due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Child Month is being celebrated in May, under the theme ‘Unplug Negativity, Connect Positivity…Think!’ The school’s celebration started on Teachers’...

With flags waving and an impromptu singing of the National Anthem, 1,044 Jamaican ship workers returned home at the Falmouth Pier in Trelawny, on May 19. Health officials from the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) were on hand for the arrival of Royal Caribbean's Adventure of the Seas. The ship workers, while not able to start the disembarkation process until...