Minister of Agriculture, Labour and Social Security, Hon. Derrick Kellier, has commended Pan-Caribbean Sugar Company Limited for the US$40 million rehabilitation works being undertaken at the Frome sugar factory in Westmoreland. Addressing the official launching ceremony of the 2014-2015 sugar cane crop at Frome on January 29, the Minister said the scope of investment by the company has already resulted...

The Jamaican High Commission in London will be embarking on a public education programme to educate the Diaspora about the need to regularise their status in the United Kingdom. The programme, which includes immigration seminars, will begin with a seminar on March 13 this year. Jamaican High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Her Excellency Aloun Ndombet Assamba, said the seminar...

The handing over of computer tablets under the Government’s Tablets in Schools Programme pilot project ended this week, with distribution to students in the two remaining institutions on January 28 and 29. Some 449 students at Parry Town Primary and Infant School in St. Ann were presented with the devices on Wednesday, January 28, while 250 tablets were handed over...

“It was screening for prostate cancer that saved my life,” says Dr. Audley Betton. The 40-year medical practitioner recalls that it was in July 2006 after a friend, who is the same age as him, shared that he had been diagnosed with the disease that he decided to get tested. He immediately did a Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) test, which he...

The Minister of Youth and Culture, the Hon. Lisa Hanna, in condemning the perpetrators of violence on the nation's children, has indicated that the Child Development Agency (CDA) has deployed a team of first responders to the communities where the incidents have occurred and will be providing grief counselling and other emotional support to the families of the deceased. “The...

Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) is to undertake several measures aimed at further boosting the Government’s revenue intake, through increased compliance. These include increased public education and information dissemination, as well as utilisation of measures under the legislative authority available to the agency. The measures include: access to third party information; and publication of details of delinquent taxpayers. Finance and Planning...

The Cornwall Regional Hospital is improving its customer service to more effectively meet the needs of patients. Senior Administrator at the hospital, Keriesa Bell Cummings, said that Patient Care Representatives (PCR) have been engaged to interact with clients and ensure their satisfaction and comfort. “They are on the ground, in the Accident and Emergency department, and on the wards and...