The National Fisheries Authority (NFA) is on track to launch its online licensing and registration system dubbed ‘IrieFINS’ in December. Once persons are engaged in fishing, a licence is needed for both the individual and the vessel. Speaking in a recent interview with JIS News, Principal Director for the Fisheries Compliance Licensing and Statistics Division of the NFA, Dr. Zahra...

Thirty-three additional persons from 12 countries have been granted Jamaican citizenship by the Government. They were presented with documents formalising their status by the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA). This took place during a citizenship ceremony at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Monday (December 4). The men, women and children hail from France, Colombia, the People’s...

The Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities (JCPD) has launched the Accessibility Checklist, which is designed to identify architectural and communication barriers encountered by persons with disabilities in private and public facilities. It is a valuable tool to assist in the removal of barriers, as it can be used to survey an entire facility or specific areas and components of...

Construction Engineer in the Wastewater Unit at the Scientific Research Council (SRC), Andrew Samuda (left), shows a composite sampler to Executive Assistant at the SRC, Carolyn Ferguson, during Thursday’s (November 30) staging of ‘SRC on Show’ at the entity’s Hope Gardens headquarters in St. Andrew.

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, on the weekend received two major awards for Jamaica from the prestigious World Travel Awards, which is in its 30th year, at the landmark Burj Al Arab in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Minister Bartlett also as Founder and Chair of the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre (GTRCMC), a thinktank based in Jamaica,...

St. Catherine students hold signs bearing the names of children who have died due to violence, during an awareness march on December 1 under the theme ‘Protect di Children, Don’t Hurt and Abuse Dem’. A ceremony was also held at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Linstead.

Chief Executive Officer of the Universal Service Fund (USF), Dr. Daniel Dawes (fifth left); and Member of Parliament for Portland Eastern, Ann-Marie Vaz (centre), are surrounded by students and teachers from the Sherwood Forest Primary School, during the launch of Wi-Fi service in the Portland-based community on November 30.