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Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams (left), engages in an interactive learning session with students at the McCam Child Care & Development Centre in Kingston on Wednesday (February 7) in observance of Global School Play Day. She is joined by UNICEF Jamaica Country Representative, Olga Isaza (second left) and Director, Regulation and Monitoring, Early Childhood Commission, Dr. Tracey-Ann Morgan Smith.
Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams (left), engages in an interactive learning session with students at the McCam Child Care & Development Centre in Kingston on Wednesday (February 7) in observance of Global School Play Day. She is joined by UNICEF Jamaica Country Representative, Olga Isaza (second left) and Director, Regulation and Monitoring, Early Childhood Commission, Dr. Tracey-Ann Morgan Smith.

PHOTOS: Minister Williams Plays with Children at McCAM Child Care and Development Centre

The inaugural InterCaribbean Airways flight from Bridgetown, Barbados, touched down at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston on Tuesday night (February 6). Bridgetown, the Southern Caribbean hub for InterCaribbean, will operate non-stop flights to Kingston on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, with return flights on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.
The inaugural InterCaribbean Airways flight from Bridgetown, Barbados, touched down at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston on Tuesday night (February 6). Bridgetown, the Southern Caribbean hub for InterCaribbean, will operate non-stop flights to Kingston on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, with return flights on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

PHOTOS: Arrival of InterCaribbean Airways Inaugural Flight from Bridgetown to Kingston
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (left), cuts the ribbon at the recent handover of a two-bedroom house to Kayla Hylton (centre), a resident of Rock River in Clarendon North Central, while Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Arlene Williams (right), looks on. Also sharing the moment (from left, back row) are Councillor for the Rock River Division, Uriah Mitchell, and Member of Parliament for the area, Hon. Robert Morgan.
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (left), cuts the ribbon at the recent handover of a two-bedroom house to Kayla Hylton (centre), a resident of Rock River in Clarendon North Central, while Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Arlene Williams (right), looks on. Also sharing the moment (from left, back row) are Councillor for the Rock River Division, Uriah Mitchell, and Member of Parliament for the area, Hon. Robert Morgan.

Beneficiaries of NSHP Empowered to Break Intergenerational Hardship – PM
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, speaks in the House of Representatives, on Tuesday (February 6).
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, speaks in the House of Representatives, on Tuesday (February 6).

Nominees for Sexual Harassment Tribunal to Be Taken to Cabinet February 12
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, delivers statement in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (February 6).
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, delivers statement in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (February 6).

Employers and Heads Must Have Sexual Harassment-Prevention Policy in Place by End of June

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Medical Officer of Health for Hanover, Dr. Kaushal Singh, reports that the Hanover Health Department has stepped up the drive to rid communities of the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, in response to the increasing number of dengue fever cases being diagnosed over recent months.
Health & Wellness

Hanover Health Dept. Steps Up Action Against Dengue

The Hanover Health Department has intensified its action against the spread of dengue fever in the parish, through a comprehensive programme aimed at increasing public awareness of preventive measures against the disease. This effort is also focused on eliminating the breeding sites of the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, vectors of the disease. Medical Officer of Health for the parish, Dr. Kaushal...
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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (fourth right), cuts the ribbon to symbolise the opening of the Harbour View to Yallahs Bridge leg of the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project on Tuesday (February 6). Joining him are (from left) Member of Parliament (MP) for St. Thomas Eastern, Dr. Michelle Charles; Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation (MEGJC), Hon. Everald Warmington; St. Thomas Western MP, James Robertson; Permanent Secretary in the MEGJC, Arlene Williams; Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Jamaica, His Excellency Chen Daojiang; MP for St. Andrew East Rural, Most Hon. Juliet Holness; and Custos of St. Thomas, Marcia Bennett.  
Office of the Prime MinisterPrime MinisterWorks / Construction

PM Dubs Harbour View to Yallahs Bridge “A Corridor of Development”

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, on Tuesday (February 6) opened the four-lane highway from Harbour View to Yallahs Bridge in St. Thomas, which he has dubbed “a corridor of development”. The 17-kilometre (km) roadway represents Part B (ii) of the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project (SCHIP), a flagship programme of the Government. Delivering the keynote address at the...
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Minister of Justice, Hon. Delroy Chuck, reads from a document in the House of Representatives on February 6.
Office of the Prime MinisterParliament

Bill Passed to Integrate Political Ombudsman into ECJ

The House of Representatives, on Tuesday (February 6), passed the Political Ombudsman (Amendment) Act, 2024, which will provide for the Office of the Political Ombudsman to be integrated into the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ). The office of the Political Ombudsman in Jamaica has been vacant since November 15, 2022. In a statement to the House of Representatives, Minister of...
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Health and Wellness Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (standing, second left); and Cuba’s Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Fermîn Gabriel Quiñones Sanchéz (left), observe as Cuban Ophthalmologist, Mauritza Perez Blanco, administers an eye test on patient George Scott. Occasion was a tour of the St. Joseph’s Hospital in St. Andrew on February 6, which is one of two public health facilities where the Jamaica-Cuba Eye Care Programme operates. The other is the Kingston Public Hospital. Also looking on are Coordinator for the Jamaica-Cuba Eye Care Programme, Natasha Biggs (second right); and Cuban Ophthalmologist, Mayra Chaveco Almanza.
Foreign AffairsHealth & Wellness

1,230 Procedures under Jamaica-Cuba Eye Care Programme since September 2023

Jamaicans continue to benefit under the Jamaica-Cuba Eye Care Programme with 1, 230 sight-saving procedures conducted since September 2023. The programme, which has been operating in Jamaca since 2010, resumed last September after being suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Health and Wellness Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, said that since the resumption, 368 cataract procedures have been performed,160...
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Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Senator the Hon. Aubyn Hill (second right), participates in the ceremony for the listing of Project STAR (Social Transformation and Renewal) on the Jamaica Social Stock Exchange (JSSE), at the offices of the Jamaica Stock Exchange in downtown Kingston on February 6. Also taking part (from left) are Chairman, JSSE, Professor Neville Ying; Co-Chair, Project STAR, Keith Duncan; and Managing Director, Jamaica Stock Exchange, Dr. Marlene Street Forrest.
CommerceCommunityFinance & Public ServiceIndustryInvestmentNational Security

Project STAR Listed on Jamaica Social Stock Exchange

Project STAR (Social Transformation and Renewal) is now listed on the Jamaica Social Stock Exchange (JSSE). The JSSE provides a platform to assist social-sector organisations to attract long-term funding to make their projects sustainable. Project STAR is a social and economic transformation programme created by the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), in partnership with the Jamaica Constabulary Force and...
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Senior Manager, Health Services at the Heart Foundation of Jamaica, Monique Willis, RN, addresses a JIS Think Tank, today (February 6), on the activities for Heart Month 2024, which is being observed during February under the theme ‘Prevent Heart Failure. Get Screened. Keep the Beat’.
Health & Wellness

HFJ Stages Several Activities for Heart Month

The Heart Foundation of Jamaica (HFJ) is staging a series of activities for the month of February, which is being observed as Heart Month, under the theme ‘Prevent Heart Failure, Get Screened, Keep the Beat’. The Month was officially launched on Tuesday, January 31, at The Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel, with the keynote speech delivered by General Family Practitioner, Dr....
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