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Minister of Health and Wellness , Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, addresses a press briefing at the Sandals Inn in Montego Bay, St. James, recently.
Minister of Health and Wellness , Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, addresses a press briefing at the Sandals Inn in Montego Bay, St. James, recently.

More Ventilators To Fight COVID-19

Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon Christopher Tufton, says the number of ventilators on the island are set to triple, due in part to the number of donations from private entities over the past few weeks. The Minister...
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Health Ministry Employee Tests Positive for COVID-19
Director and Principal of the Justice Training Institute (JTI), Karen Campbell-Bascoe.
Director and Principal of the Justice Training Institute (JTI), Karen Campbell-Bascoe.

Justice Training Institute Urges Students To Keep On Track With Studies
Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) Director General, Carol Coy, addresses a virtual media briefing at the Agency’s head office in Kingston, on Thursday (April 16).
Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) Director General, Carol Coy, addresses a virtual media briefing at the Agency’s head office in Kingston, on Thursday (April 16).

STATIN To Conduct COVID-19 Survey
A passenger in a taxi shows his identification to a police officer at a checkpoint at the Clarendon/St. Catherine border on Friday morning (April 17). Various checkpoints have been established throughout St. Catherine, following Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness’ announcement on April 14 of a lockdown of the parish in a bid to contain the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). The seven-day lockdown is effective from 5:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 15 to 5:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 22, 2020.
A passenger in a taxi shows his identification to a police officer at a checkpoint at the Clarendon/St. Catherine border on Friday morning (April 17). Various checkpoints have been established throughout St. Catherine, following Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness’ announcement on April 14 of a lockdown of the parish in a bid to contain the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). The seven-day lockdown is effective from 5:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 15 to 5:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 22, 2020.

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Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) Director General, Carol Coy, speaks at a virtual media briefing at the Agency’s head office in Kingston, on Thursday (April 16).
CoronavirusFinance & Public Service

STATIN Explores Options

The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) is exploring several options that can potentially enable the entity to execute key data-collection activities, which have been affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19). Among these, Director General, Carol Coy, says, is the addition of a COVID-19 module in the July 2020 Labour Force Survey, “if circumstances allow [this]”. She was speaking during a virtual...
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Deputy Superintendent of Police in St. Elizabeth, Nadine Grant-Brown.
National Security and Peace

JamaicaEye To Roll Out In St. Elizabeth

Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) in St. Elizabeth, Nadine Grant-Brown, says plans are in progress for the rollout of the JamaicaEye initiative in the parish. The national closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance programme involves networking cameras owned by the Ministry of National Security as well as accommodating feed from privately owned CCTV cameras. The feeds will provide useful footage in relation...
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Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, speaks at a virtual press conference at the Ministry of Health and Wellness in New Kingston, on Thursday (April 16).
CoronavirusHealth & Wellness

Sixty-Two BPOs Inspected Between March 14 And April 15

Sixty-two of the country’s 68 business process outsourcing (BPO) facilities were inspected between March 14 and April 15, with a particular focus on the coronavirus (COVID-19) risk, and all but 12 passed the inspection. These have since been provided with a work plan to address their issues. This was noted by Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher...
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Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, delivering a statement to the House of Representatives on April 15.
CoronavirusCultureParliament

More Than $50 Million Raised From COVID-19 Telethon

A total of $50,261,320 has been raised, so far, from the ‘Telethon Jamaica: Together We Stand’ event held on Easter Sunday (April 12), towards procuring personal protective equipment for front-line workers to fight COVID-19. Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, made the disclosure during a statement to the House of Representatives on April 15. “I want...
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Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) Director General, Carol Coy, speaks at a virtual media briefing at the Agency’s head office in Kingston, on Thursday (April 16).
Labour

Unemployment Remains Low

The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) is reporting that the country’s unemployment rate remains at an impressive low of 7.3 per cent, based on the January 2020 Labour Force Survey. Director General, Carol Coy, says the out-turn is 0.7 per cent lower than the rate of eight per cent recorded in January 2019, and just 0.1 per cent above the...
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