Participants in this year’s Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) Summer Internship Programme will obtain international certification from the American Hotels and Lodging Educational Institute (AHLEI), once they pass the relevant tests. The disclosure was made by the entity’s Executive Director, Dr. Carey Wallace, during an interview with JIS News on Wednesday (March 4). He noted that the AHLEI certification was first...

Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, says the Government has been refocusing public safety and citizen security strategies in a bid to reduce crime and violence across Jamaica. He noted that these interventions are particularly geared towards dismantling criminal gangs that are “almost an endemic feature of the Jamaican society”. “We have taken some initiatives that will take...

Mayor of Montego Bay, Councillor Homer Davis, says the St. James Municipal Corporation continues to institute measures to mitigate the impact of natural disasters on the parish’s infrastructure. Councillor Davis, who chairs the Corporation, emphasized that disaster risk management is critical to sustainable development and, as such, the entity has been implementing systems on an ongoing basis to strengthen St....

An additional 126 persons have been commissioned as Justices of the Peace (JPs) for St. Catherine. Justice Minister, Hon. Delroy Chuck, and Custos Rotulorum for St. Catherine, Hon. Rev. Jeffery McKenzie, headed the officials and guests attending the installation ceremony at the Portmore Seventh-Day Adventist Church, on March 4. Among the newly minted appointees are: Mayor of the parish’s capital,...

Three hundred Justices of the Peace (JPs) and police officers from Kingston, St. Andrew, and St. Catherine will benefit from the Legal Aid Council’s (LAC) Sensitization Session, slated for Tuesday, March 10. The session, to be held at the AC Marriott Hotel in Kingston, will focus on the responsibilities of JPs and police officers towards individuals who have been detained...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness has received 10 thermal scanners from Sandals Resorts International, valued over $280,000. These are expected to significantly boost the capacity of the Ministry’s medical staff to check for elevated temperature levels in individuals. Speaking at the handing over of the machines at the Ministry’s offices in New Kingston on Friday (March 6), National Epidemiologist,...

The Ministry of Justice is developing a programme to adequately train and sensitize staff at all levels of the judicial sector in the use of the second Case Management System, being introduced. The facility is designed to assist in optimizing the operations of all courts islandwide where it will be introduced, by creating a database for organizing and monitoring data....