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Members of the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) climb aboard one of the three new units that were handed over to the JFB, during a ceremony held on Thursday, February 4, at the York Park Fire Station, on Orange Street, in Kingston.

Jamaica Fire Brigade Expands EMS

The Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) has expanded its Emergency Medical Services (EMS), to offer a range of first responder services at the station level. “Members of the public can now walk in the station at any time and access...

Nurse Jennifer Turner (left) checks the blood pressure of National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) employee, Roy Gager. Occasion was a health and wellness fair staged by the company for its western regional staff on Thursday (Feb. 4), at the Holy Trinity Church in Montego Bay, St. James.

NSWMA Western Region Staff Benefit from Health Fair

Team Leader for the Children and Family Support Unit of the Child Development Agency (CDA), Carmen Mullings (right), speaking to participants who attended the CDA’s Parenting Seminar at the Alpha Institute in Kingston, last year June.

Parenting Workshops for Foster Care Week

Outgoing Speaker of the House and Member of Parliament, Michael Peart, who presided over his last sitting of the House of Representatives on February 2.

MPs Bang Desks for Michael Peart

Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Ralph Thomas (left), having a light discussion with Maryland’s Lieutenant Governor, Boyd Rutherford (centre), at the Maryland State Capital in Annapolis, on Monday, February 1. At right is Maryland Secretary of State, John Wobensmith.

Maryland wants to Deepen Relations with Jamaica

Minister with responsibility for Information, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer (left), and Regional Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean, International Democratic Women’s Federation’s (FDIM), Alecia Campos Perez, engages with babies at a day care facility run by the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF). Occasion was a tour of the facility’s Trafalgar Road location in St. Andrew on Thursday (February 4), with a delegation from Cuba.

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Gov’t Looking To Improve Services for Teen Mothers

The Government has completed a study, aimed at improving the services offered by the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF). The study was undertaken through support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Minister with responsibility for Information and Gender Affairs, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer, said the research looked at all the WCJF facilities across the island with a...

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson (seated, second right) and Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites (seated, second left) sign a Memorandum of Understanding that is designed to provide career guidance and improve access to labour market information system among young people at parish and community levels. The signing was undertaken at the Kingston and St. Andrew Parish Library on Tom Redcam Drive on February 3. Others (seated, from left) are: Director General, Jamaica Library Service (JLS), Karen Barton and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Colette Roberts Risden. Overseeing the signing (standing, from left) are: Public Relations and Marketing Officer, JLS, Kimberly Whilby McLaughlin and Record Clerk, Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Vennecia Francis.

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Labour Ministry and JLS Sign MOU for Use of LMIS

The Ministry of Labour and Social Security and the Jamaica Library Service (JLS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to facilitate the use of the Labour Market Information System (LMIS) in the library network, to foster career development and job placement. Funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the $3.5 million project is designed to provide career guidance and...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller (centre), listens to Managing Director of the National Road Operating and Constructing Company (NROCC), Ivan Anderson (left), during a tour of the Angels to Linstead leg of the North South Highway on February 4. At right is Chinese Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Niu Qingbao. . The road will be officially opened to the public on February 8.

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PM Says New Opportunities Will Come with Opening of Angels to Linstead Highway

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, says new opportunities for economic growth and job creation will result from the opening of the Angels to Linstead leg of the North South Highway. The opportunities are to be provided through the “rapid expansion” in the hotel and tourist industry, which will be spurred on by “this new mega infrastructural” development,...

Minister of National Security, Hon. Peter Bunting (left), greets Chairman of the Negril Resort Board, Cliff Reynolds, during the official opening of the newly refurbished Negril Police Station in Westmoreland yesterday (February 2). The project was funded by the Tourism Enhancement Fund at a cost of $50 million.

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Minister Bunting Reports Double Digit Drop in Major Crimes

Minister of National Security, Hon. Peter Bunting, is reporting a significant drop in crime since the start of the year, with double digit reductions in all categories. “This year we have started out very encouragingly. For January, murders were down by 31 per cent; shootings down 25 per cent; rape down 45 per cent; aggravated assault down 40 per cent; ...

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller (6th from right) cuts the ribbon to symbolically open the newly completed section of the North-South Highway from Angels, just outside Spanish Town, to Linstead in St. Catherine. The opening was on Thursday (February 4). Also participating in the opening from left are Ambassador of The People’s Republic of China to Jamaica, His Excellency Niu Qingbao; Mayor of Spanish Town, Councillor Norman Scott; Kelcian Dixon, student of Angels Primary School; Member of Parliament for North Central St. Catherine, Hon Natalie Neita Headley; Angels Primary School student, Janelle Johnson; Minister of Transport, Works and Housing, Dr. Hon. Omar Davies; Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna; Opposition Spokesman on Transport and Works, Mr. Mike Henry ; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon Arnaldo Brown.

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Prime Minister Opens Angels to Linstead Section of North-South Highway

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller On Thursday (February 4) symbolically commissioned the section of the North-South Highway from Angels, just outside Spanish Town, to Linstead in St. Catherine, to join the leg opened last year which now ends in Moneague. The recently built roadway will be open to the public for travel as of next Monday (February 8). Travel on...

Minister of Health, Hon. Horace Dalley (fourth left), breaks ground for a state-of-the-art cancer treatment centre at the St. Joseph’s Hospital compound in Kingston on February 4. Also breaking ground are: Minister of Labour and Social Security, and former Health Minister, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson (second left); Minister of State in the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Hon. Julian Robinson (fourth right), and Board member, CHASE Fund, Joseph Matalon. Others (from third left) are: Executive Director of Jamaica Cancer Society, Yulit Gordon; Chief Executive Officer (CEO), National Health Fund (NHF), Everton Anderson; Chairman, National Health Fund, Sterling Soares; Chairman, South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA), Dr. Andrei Cooke.

10 years ago Health & Wellness

Ground Broken For State-Of-The-Art Cancer Treatment Centre in Kingston

A new state-of-the-art cancer treatment centre is to be built in Kingston within the next 12 months. The centre will be located on the grounds of the St. Joseph’s Hospital. Another such centre will be located at the Cornwall Regional Hospital, in St. James, and is expected to be completed in mid 2016. Ground was broken for this centre in...

Transport, Works and Housing Minister, Dr. the Hon. Omar Davies, emphasizes a point while addressing Wednesday’s (February 3) official opening of the new Linstead Transportation Centre, in St. Catherine.

10 years ago Transport

Colour Coding Of Taxis to Be Completed by March 31

The Transport Authority (TA) is slated to complete the colour coding of taxicabs, currently being carried out islandwide, by March 31. On completion, over 15,000 hackney carriages and route taxis will bear the designated colour and logo inscriptions, making them easily identifiable by the commuting public. Hackney carriages will bear a yellow and black checker strip running on the side...