The country has seen a reduction in the number of fatal road crashes since the start of the year. Up to May 15, Jamaica recorded 142 road collisions and 155 deaths, which compare to 152 collisions and 171 deaths for the same period last year, representing declines of 10 per cent and 17 per cent, respectively. Minister without Portfolio in...

Attendees at the National Natural Disaster Risk Financing Policy public consultation at the Old Police Station in May Pen, Clarendon on, May 15.

The Government is to go to tender this calendar year to select contractors to commence the modification of an additional 19 post offices to expand access to the national identification card. Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, Hon. Floyd Green, made the disclosure during his contribution to the Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on...

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Denzil Thorpe (left) and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Colette Roberts Risden, place wreaths at the Aggie Bernard monument, Kingston Craft Market, downtown Kingston, on May 16 in recognition of National Workers Week.

   

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...