Cuba’s Ambassador to Jamaica, Her Excellency Inés Fors Fernández, says her Government is happy to provide support to Jamaica in combatting the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. A total of 140 healthcare professionals, including 90 specialist nurses, arrived in the island on March 21 to bolster the country’s front-line staff. They are among 434 Cuban healthcare personnel currently in Jamaica under a Technical Cooperation Agreement...

Market vendors, taxi men, barbers and hairdressers, among others in the informal sector who are hard hit by the coronavirus (COVID-19), are to benefit from financial support. Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, said that the Government is working on a programme that will provide financial assistance for persons who may not be formally employed...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, has called on persons not to waste water as the nation continues its fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19). With schools out, children at home, workplaces reducing their opening hours and allowing employees to work from home, and citizens urged to wash their hands more often, which has increased the demand in water for...

The Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) is advising the public that all applications for barbers, hairdressers, beauty therapists, signs and billboards must now be submitted via email. “Applications must be sent to compliance@ksamc.gov.jm. What the compliance team will do is take the application and verify it and communicate back to the person the cost to be paid,” Mayor...

The Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (Code of Conduct and Disciplinary Procedure) Regulations 2020 was passed in the House of Representatives on March 24. The Regulations now give effect to the provisions of the MOCA Act, which include the establishment of MOCA as a statutory law-enforcement agency with operational independence and authority. In his address to the House, National...

Medical Entomologist and National Programme Manager, Vector Control, in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Sherine Huntley Jones, is encouraging householders to remain vigilant in the fight against dengue, even as the country continues to deal with the coronavirus (COVID-19). In an interview with JIS News, she explained that although much of the focus is currently on preventing the spread...

Registration for the Transformation Implementation Unit’s (TIU) second annual Public Sector Debating Competition remains open. Communication Lead at the TIU, Anneke Clarke, told JIS News that registration was originally scheduled to close on March 20, but the period has been extended due to the coronavirus (COVID-19). She said that the launch of the competition, originally scheduled for April, has been...