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Jamaica Customs Agency Clarifies Clearance Procedures for In-Bound Containers

For many Jamaicans with relatives overseas, receiving a barrel with gifts is a common occurrence. Though barrels are shipped to the island throughout the year, Jamaicans at home and abroad look forward to sending and receiving barrels at Christmas, which...

Ardenne High School student, Faith Grant (right), logs in to Skype ahead of an Electronic Document Processing and Management (EDPM) class at the institution, while a member of the academic staff, assisting her, looks on.

Ardenne High Shows Faith in Physically Challenged Student

Members of the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica’s (PSOJ) team which participated in the 2016 staging of the National Health Fund’s (NHF) ‘Work it Out’ Challenge workplace weight loss competition, with trainer Stokely Rose (2nd right) of TrainFit Club. From left, are: Jason Nelson, Michelle Scarlett, Sheryl Barnes, and team captain, Kisha-Kaye Walker. Missing is the fifth member, Prudence Gentles.

Teamwork Key to PSOJ Workplace Wellness Success

Prime Minister, the Most Honourable
Andrew Michael Holness, ON, PC, MP — Prime Minister, the Most Honourable Andrew Michael Holness, ON, PC, MP

Prime Minister Appeals for a Loving and Peaceful Christmas

His Excellency, The Most Honourable Sir Patrick Allen, ON, GCMG, CD, KSt.J, Governor-General

Christmas Message 2016 From His Excellency the Governor-General The Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen ON, GCMG, CD, KST.J

9 years ago Office of the Prime Minister

Christmas Message 2016 from Prime Minister, The Most Hon. Andrew Holness

Fellow Jamaicans: I bring you greetings of peace, hope and goodwill on this Christmas day. Christmas fills a deep yearning in the human spirit: A yearning for togetherness, harmony, peace, love and unity. Human beings were designed for fellowship and friendship. Christmas takes us back to those true values; to the real meaning of life. It clears away the clutter...

Leader of the Opposition, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, O.N, M.P

9 years ago Opposition

Christmas Message 2016 Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller ON, MP Leader of the Opposition

Joy to the world, the Lord is come. Let Earth receive her King! It is Christmas and I greet all my fellow Jamaicans at home and abroad in the true spirit of the Season. I welcome warmly to our shores, all our visitors to Jamaica and our citizens visiting relatives and friends for the holidays. Around the world, it is...

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, addresses the launch of an initiative to extend the hours of surgery at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), held on the compound of the hospital in Papine, St. Andrew, on December 21.

9 years ago Health & Wellness

Health Sector Public-Private Partnership Policy for Cabinet

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, says a public-private partnership policy will be brought before Cabinet next year as part of measures to improve efficiency within the public health sector. He made the disclosure during the launch of a project to extend the surgery hours at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), held at the facility...

Head of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), Audley Gordon.

9 years ago Local Government

Householders Assured That Garbage Will Be Picked Up

Head of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), Audley Gordon, is assuring Jamaicans that their garbage will be picked up during the Christmas season. “Go out and shop, party, cook up a storm and enjoy your Christmas; don’t worry, your garbage will be picked up,” he told JIS News. Mr. Gordon said strategies are being put in place to...

A very happy first-time mother Serenia with her son, Omani, after he successfully underwent urgent heart surgery at the Harley Street Clinic in London.

9 years ago Health & Wellness

Bright Christmas for Mother and Baby

Christmas will be much brighter for Jamaican mother Serenia and her baby, Omani. With the help of United Kingdom-based charity Chain of Hope, the first-time mother from Norwood in Montego Bay is now looking forward to a brighter future with her baby, after successful heart surgery in London. Omani was born in October with a severe form of heart disease,...

Commissioner of Police, Dr. Carl Williams

9 years ago National Security and Peace

Police Commissioner to demit office January 6

The Ministry of National Security confirms the resignation of Commissioner of Police, Dr. Carl Williams as of January 6, 2017. Dr. Williams indicated his desire to retire from the Jamaica Constabulary Force from October 18, 2016. Numerous efforts were made by members of the administration, the Police Services Commission, and the Minister of National Security to have the Commissioner extend...

President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Hah-R-Mony Entertainment Limited, Ho-Chi-Min Castillo (left), and Executive Director and business partner, Garth Ramsey (right), display some of the presents that will be distributed to some 2,000 children at a Christmas concert at the Old Hospital Park, Gloucester Avenue, Montego Bay on December 25.

9 years ago Tourism

Free Christmas Concert for Montego Bay Residents

Residents of Montego Bay will be fêted at a free concert being organised by Hah-R-Mony Entertainment Limited in collaboration with the St. James Parish Council. The concert will be held on December 25 at the Old Hospital Park on Gloucester Avenue. The event will include the presentation of gifts to more than 2,000 children. Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett...