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Chief Technical Director in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Lt. Col. Oral Khan (right), is in discussion with Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Japan, Shinichi Yamanaka (left). Occasion was the opening ceremony for a week-long capacity-building workshop for Caribbean Small Island Developing States on achieving Aichi Biodiversity Target 9 of the Convention on Biological Diversity at the Courtleigh Hotel in New Kingston on September 18. Looking on at (centre) is Programme Officer of Science, Assessment and Monitoring at the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Junko Shimura.

Jamaica Taking Action Against Invasive Alien Species

Chief Technical Director in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Lt. Col. (Ret’d) Oral Khan, says Jamaica is taking action to protect the country’s biodiversity against the threat of invasive alien species. He noted that the island is...

Senior Advisor to the Minister of Transport and Mining, Mr. Bindley Sangster (right); and Chief Technical Director in the Ministry, Dr. Janine Dawkins (centre), listen to Chairman of the Maritime Authority of Jamaica (MAJ), Mrs. Corah-Ann Robertson Sylvester (left), at the MAJ’s 16th anniversary awards ceremony, held recently at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in Kingston. Seated is Mr. Sangster’s wife, Janet.

Transport Minister wants Jamaica Re-Elected to IMO Council

Education, Youth and Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid (3rd left) and Quality Education Specialist, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Dr. Rebecca Tortello Greenland (2nd right), observe as grade-seven students at Cumberland High School complete a written activity. (FILE)

Education Ministry To Make Physical Activity Mandatory For Schools

Minister of Health, Dr the Hon. Christopher Tufton (right), converses with (from left) Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO)/WHO) Representative for Jamaica, Bermuda and Cayman Islands, Dr. Noreen Jack; Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Representative in Jamaica, The Bahamas and Belize, Dr. Gillian Smith; and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Representative in Jamaica, Mark Connolly. Occasion was the National Breastfeeding Week conference and launch at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston, on September 19.

The Breast is Best

Minister of Labour and Social Security; Shahine Robinson, greets a Jamaican evacuated from the British Virgin Islands (BVI) by the Government, following the devastation caused by Hurricane Irma. She arrived on one of two chartered flights from the BVI, which landed at the Norman Manley International Airport on September 18.

Gov’t Evacuates Jamaicans from British Virgin Islands

Member of the United Kingdom (UK) Parliament, Sarah Champion (left), raises a point to Government Senator, Dr. Sapphire Longmore (right). Also pictured (from second left) are Opposition Senator, Dr. Floyd Morris; Steve Reid; and Lord Goddard of Stockport. The four-member delegation from the UK Parliament was visiting the Randolph Lopez School of Hope in Kingston on Monday (September 18).

9 years ago Foreign Affairs

UK Members of Parliament Laud Work of School of Hope

Members of the United Kingdom (UK) Parliament have lauded the Randolph Lopez School of Hope for the work it has been doing over the years to equip intellectually challenged students with the necessary skills to become functionally independent. During a visit to the school in Kingston on September 18, Head of the delegation, Phillip Hollobone, told JIS News that he...

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

9 years ago Local Government

Gov’t to Make Evacuations Mandatory

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, says the Government will be putting regulations in place to allow for mandatory evacuations in times of natural disaster. He said the regulations, which are far advanced, will make the Disaster Risk Management Act more effective, particularly in relation to compulsory evacuations from areas deemed vulnerable to severe weather such...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness.

9 years ago Office of the Prime Minister

Jamaica Stands Ready to Assist Caribbean Islands Impacted by Hurricanes – PM Holness

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says Jamaica will provide whatever assistance it can to Caribbean nations impacted by major hurricanes that have battered the Eastern Caribbean islands. Speaking this morning (September 19), Prime Minister Holness said, "I am in touch with the Prime Ministers from the eastern Caribbean. Our prayers are with them as they seek to recover from these tragedies....

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (2nd left), addresses journalists during the Government of Jamaica (GOJ)/International Monetary Fund (IMF) joint press conference for the country

9 years ago Finance & Public Service

Economic and Structural Reforms Must be Expedited – PM

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, has underscored the need for the Government’s programme of economic and structural reforms, now under way, to be expedited. This, he said, is imperative if Jamaica is to achieve economic independence and reduce its reliance on external assistance for funding support. “We no longer have the luxury of delay,” he noted. Mr. Holness...

Group Chief Executive Officer of Jamaica Money Market Brokers (JMMB), and Co-Chairman of the Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC), Keith Duncan, addresses the Mico University College Alumni Association (MOSA) Gold Medal Awards, held on September 16, at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, in New Kingston.

9 years ago Finance & Public Service

Trade Unions Urged to Modify Wage Claims

Trade unions representing public-sector workers have been urged to modify their wage claims, as nothing should be done to derail the economic programme that Jamaica is on. Making the call, Group Chief Executive Officer of Jamaica Money Market Brokers (JMMB), and Co-Chairman of the Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC), Keith Duncan, said it is important that Jamaica achieve the target...

Chief Technical Director in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Dermon Spence, addresses a recent Think Tank at the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) headquarters on Half-Way Tree Road, Kingston.

9 years ago Agriculture

Plant Quarantine Division Helping to Boost Trade

The Plant Quarantine Division (PQD) in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce Agriculture and Fisheries is playing a key role in helping to boost trade in agricultural produce and ensuring that citizens have access to safe, quality foods. Chief Technical Director in the Ministry, Dermon Spence, said the expansion of trade in part of Government’s strategic objectives for the sector. “Our...

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (3rd left), displays a symbolic cheque for $4 million to help fund the construction of a facility at the St. Catherine Infirmary to house homeless persons from the Spanish Town Hospital and the streets, on September 15, at the infirmary. Others (from left) are Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie; Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Fund (NHF), Everton Anderson; and Mayor of Spanish Town, Councillor Norman Scott.

9 years ago Health & WellnessLocal Government

Facility for Homeless Persons to be Built in Spanish Town

A move to establish a permanent facility for homeless persons in Spanish Town, St. Catherine, has been made by the Ministry of Health with a donation of $4 million. Through a partnership involving the Jamaica Public Service (JPS), with a contribution of $1.1 million, the St. Catherine Municipal Corporation and the National Health Fund (NHF), the home will be constructed...