Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams, is upbeat about the 2023/24 academic year, based on activities observed while visiting several schools on Monday (September 4). She and other Ministry officials toured the Windward Road Primary, Jacks Hill Primary and Infant, Mountain View Primary and Infant, and Hope Valley Experimental Primary Schools in the Corporate Area to assess the...

Effective immediately the main road linking Palmers Cross to May Pen, through the community of Paisley, Clarendon is closed. The corridor has been closed by the National Works Agency (NWA), due to a failure in the approach road to the bridge at Paisley. Manager, Communication and Customer Services at the NWA, Stephen Shaw says that the corridor had been reduced...

The multimillion-dollar slope protection works at Chovey, St. Mary has been practically completed. The Chovey road is part of the Junction corridor that links Kingston to the North-coast, via Southern St. Mary. Manager, Communication and Customer Services, Stephen Shaw, says that with the exception of a toe wall, which is to be constructed adjacent to the roadway, works are complete....

The Victim Services Branch (VSB) is encouraging parents to be vigilant with their children, to minimise trauma resulting from crime and violence. Director of the VSB in the Social Justice Division of the Justice Ministry, Dionne Dawn Binns, told JIS News that more than 50 per cent of the Branch’s clientele are children. “Our most common cases include those related...

On the first day of the 2023/24 academic year, residents of St. Thomas encountered smooth traffic flow on sections of the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project (SCHIP) in the parish. A roving JIS News team observed road users on several segments of the highway, between Yallahs Bridge and Harbour View on Monday (September 4), during the peak hours of 6:00...

Plans have been intensified in the gathering of data by the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), to expand the production of spices on the island. According to Director General of the agency, Peter Thompson, a baseline assessment is being done, which will assist the JACRA to determine best practices for supporting farmers, under the Food for Progress Jamaica Spices...

The Government will be spending approximately US$209 million to implement the Northwestern Parishes Reliability and Service Improvement Project. Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, who made the announcement, said the project is intended to address water concerns and challenges in Jamaica’s northwestern parishes resulting from, among other factors, rapidly deteriorating archaic pipelines. He was addressing a Town Hall on...