Latest

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie. (File)

Fire Brigade to Get Over $30 Million to Purchase Boats

Local Government and Community Development Minister, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, says the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) will be providing more than $30 million to the Jamaica Fire Brigade for the acquisition of boats. He noted that the...

Education, Youth and Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid.

42 Schools to be Taken off Shift System

Participants in the Homestead Place of Safety cosmetology and life skill programme pictured during the closing ceremony held on Friday, September 22 at the institution, located in Stony Hill, St. Andrew. The initiative was facilitated by the Child Development Agency (CDA) in collaboration with the social intervention programme, Children First Jamaica.

25 Wards of the State Benefit from Cosmetology and Life Skills Training Programme

Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister, Senator the Hon. Kamina Johnson Smith (left) addresses a panel discussion on childhood obesity at a CARICOM Roundtable Forum at the 72nd United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the UN Headquarters in New York, on September 22. Others (from 2nd left) are: Jamaica’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Courtenay Rattray; and Chairman of the Panel Discussion and former UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS and immediate past University of West Indies Chancellor, Sir George Alleyne.

Government Targeting Significant Reduction of Non-Communicable Diseases

Local Government and Community Development Minister, Hon. Desmond McKenzie (left), presents the keys to a new ambulance to Jamaica Fire Brigade Commissioner, Raymond Spencer. The presentation was made at the Lucea Fire Station in Hanover on Friday, September 22.

Local Government and Health Ministries Partner to Provide Ambulances for Firefighters

Manager of the Local Area Planning Branch at the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), Dwight Williams, shows two of the most recently drafted development orders, during a Jamaica Information Service ‘Think Tank’ forum at the agency’s head office in Kingston.

9 years ago Environment

NEPA Invites Feedback on Provisional Development Orders

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is reminding interested parties to submit feedback on recently drafted provisional development orders by the September 30 deadline. Persons are being asked to send comments, recommendations and objections to the Town and Country Planning Authority regarding the Kingston and St. Andrew and Pedro Cays, and the St. Mary provisional development orders which were...

Justice Minister and Member of Parliament for north east St. Andrew, Hon. Delroy Chuck, addresses a community meeting in Barbican, St. Andrew, on Thursday, September 21.

9 years ago Justice

Business and Property Value Boom Anticipated from Barbican Road Project

A business and property value boom in and around Barbican in north east St. Andrew is anticipated from the US$4.4 million road improvement project now underway in the community. This, according to Justice Minister and Member of Parliament, Hon. Delroy Chuck, who says he has seen a private sector development plan for Barbican which includes a major shopping complex. He...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (centre), breaks ground for the National Housing Trust’s $4.1-billion Ruthven Towers housing development on Ruthven Road in St. Andrew, on Friday, September 22. Others (from left) are Custos Rotulorum for Kingston, Hon. Steadman Fuller; NHT Managing Director, Martin Miller; Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang; NHT Chairman, Dr. Nigel Clarke; Member of Parliament for South East St. Andrew, where the project is located, Julian Robinson; and Custos Rotulorum for St Andrew, Hon. Patricia Dunwell.

9 years ago HousingPrime Minister

PM Breaks Ground for Ruthven Towers Apartment Complex

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, on Friday (September 22) broke ground for the $4.1-billion Ruthven Towers apartment complex being developed by the National Housing Trust (NHT) on Ruthven Road, St. Andrew. The project is being developed on land formerly owned by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), and will see 238 strata units being built over two phases. Phase...

Education, Youth and Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, looks on as five-year-old Devon Primary and Infant School students, Quewayne Davis (centre) and Jayquon McIntosh, demonstrate their writing skills. Occasion was a visit to the institution on Wednesday (September 20), during the Minister’s tour of institutions in St. Mary.

9 years ago Education

Schools Urged To Submit Needs Early

Education, Youth and Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, is urging school administrators to submit early the projection of furniture and other resources they will require for the reopening of school, in order to facilitate timely procurement and delivery. He noted that several schools experiencing shortfalls in furniture stock have waited until a few weeks before the start of...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, addresses the Prime Minister’s quarterly press briefing at his Devon Road offices in Kingston on September 21.

9 years ago Prime Minister

Gov’t Looking At Public-Private Partnership to Expand CCTV Coverage

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the Government is looking to partner with the private sector to expand closed-circuit television (CCTV) coverage across the island. “We are hoping to work with businesses that already have cameras...we are developing a protocol in which we can use privately owned cameras to point in the public’s direction and have the Internet...

Wife of the Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Juliet Holness (left), is greeted by President of the American Women’s Group, Claudja Alexander, at the group’s luncheon held at Devon House on Thursday (September 21).

9 years ago Education

Mrs. Holness Says Schools Should Require Voluntary Service

Wife of the Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Juliet Holness, says voluntarism should become mandatory at the primary and secondary levels of the school system. She said that every child should be required to participate in a voluntary activity, which would be added to their report card each year. Mrs. Holness noted that volunteerism builds character, and helps students to...

Science, Energy and Technology Minister, Dr. the Hon. Andrew Wheatley (left), converses with Port Maria Mayor, Councillor Richard Creary, during Wednesday’s (September 20) reopening of the chemistry laboratory at St. Mary Technical High School in St. Mary, which was renovated by State refinery, Petrojam, at a cost of just over $1.8 million.

9 years ago EducationScienceVision 2030

Science Labs at St. Mary Technical High Renovated

Students and teachers of the St. Mary Technical High School now have the use of renovated laboratories for the teaching and learning of the sciences. State oil refinery, Petrojam, refurbished the school’s chemistry lab at a cost of just over $1.8 million. The project, which was initiated by Port Maria Mayor and Petrojam Board member, Councillor Richard Creary, entailed infrastructure...