The Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ) is announcing a special one-day Saturday opening on March 23, 2024 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and the introduction of an e-ticketing system to better facilitate compliance and address long wait times at its Kingston & St. Andrew office. The special Saturday opening, which will be by appointment only, will offer customers an...

New Commissioner of Police, Dr. Kevin Blake, who was officially installed on Monday (March 18), has pledged to continue the work to improve the efficiency of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), and win the hearts and minds of Jamaicans. He said the Force will not fail in its duty to serve and protect the lawful majority. In a Change of...

Students at St. Catherine High School listen attentively while Acting Special Projects Manager, Jamaica Information Service (JIS), Charnele Henry (second right), shares information about the agency and the JIS publications on display. Looking on is Special Projects Officer, JIS, Romona Geohaghan (seated left). Students and adults visited the JIS booth to receive information on healthy eating, citizen rights, breast cancer,...

The Government’s National Identification System (NIDS) ‘Operation Birthright’ Progamme is actively responding to a concern highlighted in the Jamaica ‘Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2022: Situation of Women and Children’. The report, which was launched on Friday (March 15) at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Regional Headquarters in St. Andrew, found that Jamaica has almost universal registration of...

Patrons attending the St. Mary Agri-Expo on Monday, April 1, will experience the addition of a Youth in Agriculture Village. This year’s activities will be held under the theme ‘Nourishing our future; Safeguarding farms, ensuring food security’. President of the St. Mary Associate Branch Society, the parish arm of the Jamaica Agricultural Society, Fabian Rhule, said this year’s show, the...

The Ministry of Education and Youth will be seeking to scale up literacy intervention programmes in schools across Jamaica. The Jamaica Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2022: Situation of Women and Children, launched on Friday (March 15) at the University of the West Indies Regional Headquarters in St. Andrew, reported that the level at which students aged seven to 14...

Newly recruited correctional officers are being encouraged to be agents of change as they carry out their role in rehabilitating incarcerated persons. “I want to remind you as you step into the field, that you all play a significant role in impacting the lives of those you serve during the journey of rehabilitation and transformation,” said Commissioner of Corrections at...