Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. Kamina Johnson Smith (centre), with the Ministers attending the 26th Meeting of the Caribbean Community’s Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR), after participating in a commemorative tree-planting ceremony on the grounds of the Office of the Prime Minister on May 16.

Citizens are being encouraged to practise proper waste management as they participate in various activities on Labour Day, Tuesday, May 23. This urging comes from Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, who emphasises that “within all of that (Labour Day activities), we have to think of a clean environment and how we must dispose of our...

A regional Nephrology Centre of Excellence is slated to be constructed at the St. Ann’s Bay Hospital in St. Ann. This was stated by Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, Hon. Floyd Green, during his contribution to the 2023/24 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on May 16. Mr. Green was providing an update on...

Minister of National Security and Deputy Prime Minister, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, says regional immigration and customs officials must take a more technological approach to improving border control and addressing threats to regional security. “Increased reliance on technology, systems integration, and a more data-driven approach to operations will undoubtedly improve the capacity of our border-control agents to make the appropriate...

With technology and infrastructure being among the main thematic areas of the Education Transformation Commission’s report, Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams, says she will be outlining a “new vision” for the sector. Mrs. Williams, who was speaking today (May 16) on Nationwide 90’s ‘Ask the Minister’ programme, said that she will provide details in her 2023/24 Sectoral...

The Ministry of Education and Youth has reaped success with its ‘Yard to Yard, Find the Child’ initiative, with Portfolio Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams, informing that schools have almost returned or are fully back to pre-COVID-19 levels of student attendance. The initiative was rolled out in 2022 as a national call to action to identify, locate and re-engage students, given...

Some 1,200 residents of Westmoreland are being targeted for blood-pressure checks by the Westmoreland Public Health Department on World Hypertension Day, Wednesday (May 17). Health Promotion and Education Officer for the parish, Gerald Miller, told JIS News that the initiative involves collaboration with the National Health Fund (NHF). “We were asked to work with them in screening persons for hypertension,”...