Effective tomorrow (March 18), funerals and weddings should be limited to close family members and friends and should not exceed 20 persons. Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, made this announcement on Monday (March 16), during a press conference regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19), at Jamaica House. “Of important note, the Government is also instituting a new requirement for public...

Minister of National Security, the Hon. Dr. Horace Chang is assuring members of the public that the Passport Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) is working to prevent more cases of COVID-19 from entering the island’s main ports of entry. On Friday (March 13), he met with Immigration Officers at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, to discuss personal safety...

The Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA) is boosting its capacity to respond and manage the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), in the southern end of the island. The SRHA, which administrates public healthcare in the parishes of Manchester, Clarendon and St. Elizabeth, has been training its staff members in the clinical and surveillance management of COVID-19 and the use of personal...

As the world grapples with the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) social distancing is being promoted by the Government as one of the ways to contain the spread of the virus locally. Social distancing is a term applied to certain actions that are taken by public health officials to stop or slow down the spread of a highly contagious disease....

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has moved decisively to act to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 in Jamaica. The move follows a meeting of Cabinet yesterday (March 16) which approved measures for the action. Updating the nation at a media briefing following the meeting of Cabinet, Prime Minister Holness announced that effective Wednesday, March 18 all non-essential work in both the...

Pro Vice Chancellor and Principal of the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Professor Dale Webber, has announced plans to build a new western Campus of the University of the West Indies, and to offer additional programmes. In a presentation at the monthly St. James Municipal Corporation meeting on March 12, Professor Webber outlined the vision of the university...

Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Jamaica Public Service (JPS) Company, Vernon Douglas, says that all households across the island will be outfitted with a smart electricity meter within the next three years. He was addressing the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) Public Consultation on the JPS’s 2019-2024 tariff review at the Sharon Baptist Church in Santa Cruz, St. Elizabeth, on March...