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Chief Executive Officer of the Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ), Judith Ramlogan, provides details about the agency's 2019 Customer Satisfaction Survey during a recent JIS Think Tank.

92 Per Cent Of COJ Customers Satisfied

The Companies Office of Jamaica’s (COJ) says 92 per cent of its customers have expressed some level of satisfaction with the services offered by the agency. This is contained in the COJ Customer Satisfaction Survey undertaken in May 2019, details...

Mayor of Kingston, Senator Councillor Delroy Williams (right), offers words of encouragement to some of the newly elected members of the Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) Youth Council at the municipal corporation’s downtown Kingston offices on Tuesday (November 12). The youth representatives (from left) are Chaplain, Khalil Satchell; Deputy Junior Mayor, Raneeka Cain; Chief Executive Officer, Danielle Jonas; and Junior Mayor, Jean-Claude Walters Dunn.

KSAMC Youth Council Members Encouraged To Take Roles Seriously

Opposition leader at the National Youth Parliament, Andrew Johnson, offers a spirited defence of his point during the sitting of the event on Monday (November 11), at Gordon House in Kingston.

Youth Parliamentarians Debate Topical Issues

Young people attending this year’s 10th sitting of the National Youth Parliament at Gordon House on Monday (November 11).

Young People Encouraged To Get Involved In Politics

Deputy Director General, Regulatory Affairs, Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (JCAA), Rohan Campbell (front left) with participants in the JCAA Aviation Quality System Seminar held on Friday (Nov. 8) at the Iberostar Resort in Montego Bay, St. James.

Civil Aviation Authority Stages Aircraft Maintenance Symposium

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange

6 years ago CultureEntertainmentForeign Affairs

Minister Grange Elected VP of UNESCO General Conference

The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has been elected a Vice-President of the 40th Session of the UNESCO General Conference which is underway in Paris, France. The General Conference, which happens every two years, brings together the 193 members of UNESCO to decide on the policies and work of the organisation. Minister Grange was...

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie (foreground centre) walks along the Rural Hill road in Eastern Portland on Friday (November 8). He is accompanied by Member of Parliament for the area, Ann Marie Vaz (foreground left); Mayor of Port Antonio, Paul Thompson (foreground right); community member Nigel Smith (background left); and Acting Chief Engineer, Portland Municipal Corporation, Raymond Grant (background second right).

6 years ago Works / Construction

Parochial Roads In East Portland To Be Repaired

The Local Government and Community Development Ministry will be undertaking repairs to a number of parochial roads in Eastern Portland. Portfolio Minister, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, made the disclosure to JIS News during a road inspection tour of that section of the parish on Friday (November 8). “We will be doing a number of roads [such as] Toms Hope, Back Road...

Participants in the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) Parenting Empowerment Pilot Project graduation ceremony at the Montego Bay Convention Centre on November 7.

6 years ago LabourSocial Security

250 Parents Participate In PATH Empowerment Project

The childrearing skills of some 250 parents across four parishes have been significantly boosted following their participation in the final phase of the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) Parenting Empowerment Project. The parents, who hail from St. Mary, Trelawny, Hanover and Westmoreland, graduated from the six-month pilot training programme, which concluded with a ceremony at the Montego...

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie (centre), breaks ground for construction of a state-of-the-art Adult Transitional Facility for the homeless in Kingtson on Monday (November 11). Others participating in the ground-breaking (from left) are Minority Leader at the Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC), Andrew Swaby; Mayor of Kingston, Senator Delroy Williams; Senior Pastor at the Webster Memorial Church, Rev. Astor Carlye; and Managing Director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeney.

6 years ago Local Government

$140-Million Adult Transitional Facility To Be Built In Kingston

A state-of-the-art Adult Transitional Facility is to be built at a cost of nearly $140 million to serve homeless persons in Kingston and St. Andrew. Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, on Monday (November 11), broke ground for the centre at 163-167 King Street, downtown Kingston. The facility, to be operated and managed by the Kingston...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke (left), and former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Mission Chief for Jamaica, Dr. Uma Ramakrishnan, peruse a document, during a press conference at the Ministry in Kingston earlier this year.

6 years ago Finance & Public Service

IMF Credits ERP’s Success To Strong Stakeholder Ownership

Former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Mission Chief for Jamaica, Dr. Uma Ramakrishnan, has credited the success of the Economic Reform Programme (ERP) to the broad-based stakeholder ownership of the reforms and a commitment to “seeing things turn around”. “The ownership that we have seen across [political] administrations… where things went smoothly… and where [there was] the commitment to retaining the...

Jamaica Defence Force Private, Tanya Wilson (left) presents a wreath to Captain David Chin Fong for laying in remembrance of fallen soldiers. This was during the Memorial Day service held at Garrison Church of the Ascension, Up Park Camp, on November 10. Jamaica honoured the memory of the fallen servicemen and servicewomen of World Wars I and II on Remembrance Day.

6 years ago Remembrance Day

PHOTOS: Remembrance Day Church Service

Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister and Member of Parliament for Central Manchester, Hon. Mike Henry, makes a presentation to University of Technology (UTech) student, Shakeria Johnson, at a function held on Sunday (November10), at the West Park Community Centre in Clarendon, during which tuition cheques totalling some $2.7 million, were awarded to 62 tertiary-level students. The occasion was also used to celebrate the recent conferment of the Order of Jamaica (OJ) on Minister Henry.

6 years ago Education

Minister Henry Awards $2.7 Million In Tuition Assistance

Sixty-two tertiary-level students from Central Clarendon have benefited from tuition support totalling approximately $2.7 million from Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister and Member of Parliament for the area, Hon. Mike Henry. The presentation was made at a reception held on Sunday (November 10), at the West Park Community Centre in Clarendon. The occasion was also...