The Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) on Thursday (May 7) donated two firefighting backpack pumps to the farming community of Flagaman, St. Elizabeth, in a proactive step to suppress and control potential fire outbreaks on farmlands in the area. The high-pressure portable items were handed over following a tour of farms that were devastated by fire in August of last year,...

Health Promotion and Education Officer at the Westmoreland Health Department, Gerald Miller, is reminding residents of the parish that improper use of face masks can increase their risk of contracting the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Mr. Miller, in an interview with JIS News, said that while it is commendable that many individuals are playing their part to contain the spread of...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says the protocol that will facilitate the reopening of the tourism industry is almost complete and will be rolled out shortly. “It entails a whole range of responses that the workers of the industry will have to make and also quite a bit of infrastructure adjustment that the hotels will have to make, as...

The Government will be boosting the staff at health facilities across the island, with up to 1,000 health aids and other professionals to be recruited. Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, made the disclosure while speaking with medical personnel at the Annotto Bay Hospital in St. Mary on Saturday (May 9). He said that the objective...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, through his Positive Jamaica Foundation, has donated $100,000 to the Little Bay Primary and Infant School in Westmoreland to support the institution’s initiative in providing worksheets to students, who do not have internet access. Under the initiative, spearheaded by Principal of the institution, Keron King, assignments are delivered weekly to the students, a...

Two companion Bills, aimed at revolutionising the country’s land-titling system, are expected to be passed during the next sitting of the Senate. These are the Registration of Titles Cadastral Mapping and Tenure Clarification (Special Provisions) (Amendment) Act, 2020 (SPA); and the Registration of Titles (Amendment) Act, 2020 (RTA). Leader of Government Business, Senator the Hon. Kamina Johnson Smith, who piloted the...

Unicomer (Courts) Jamaica Limited is the latest company to lend its support in the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19), with the donation of 20 state-of-the-art hospital beds to the Ministry of Health and Wellness. The beds, which are valued at $3.5 million, were handed over on Friday (May 8), at the Unicomer Distribution Centre in Kingston. In his address at...