The New Social Justice Division within the Justice Ministry has been working to deliver healing and create a culture of peace by increasing access to Alternative Justice Services (AJS). The Division is a one-stop shop, housing three critical branches of the Ministry, namely Restorative Justice (RJ), Child Diversion and Victim Services, which members of the public can access free of...

The country’s unemployment rate fell to a new record low 4.5 per cent in April 2023, according to the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) Labour Force Survey for the period. This was 1.5 percentage points lower than the out-turn for the corresponding timeline in 2022, Director General, Carol Coy, indicated. Speaking during STATIN’s quarterly digital media briefing on Tuesday (August...

Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen (left), receives a framed collection of the new series of banknotes from Governor, Bank of Jamaica (BOJ), Richard Byles. The BOJ Governor, along with other representatives from the Bank, visited King’s House on August 15.

Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen (right), and Chief Social Innovator, NexxStepp Lifelong Educational Services and Founder/Organiser, Little Genius Competition, Tishauna Mullings (second right), listen to Amir Murray, a contestant in the Little Genius Competition, during a courtesy call at King’s House on August 15.

More than 200 persons, including schoolchildren, benefited from a community health fair organised by NADS Family Health Care in St. Catherine, on Sunday (August 13). Held at the Green Acres Commercial Business Complex, in the parish, the fair provided general checks, school medicals, eye checks, immunisations, pap smear, and laboratory testing. Operator of the dental department at the facility, Dr....

The dividends of Jamaica’s economic performance must be used wisely and in the interest of the citizens, according to Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness. Speaking during Friday’s (August 11) ceremony to break ground for the $907-million Sheffield Palms housing development in Retreat, Westmoreland, Mr. Holness maintained that “the economic benefits cannot be frittered away while people are suffering”....

Citizens are being advised not to purchase products that contain persistent organic pollutants (POPs), as they can adversely affect human and environmental health. The call came from the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) Pollution Prevention Branch Manager, Bethune Morgan, who participated in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) ‘Stop the POP Help Series’, held virtually on Monday, July 31....