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Miss Hanover Festival Queen 2022, Maricka Shaw, waves following her coronation at Rusea’s High School in Lucea on Saturday (June 25).
Miss Hanover Festival Queen 2022, Maricka Shaw, waves following her coronation at Rusea’s High School in Lucea on Saturday (June 25).
Culture

Medical Student, Maricka Shaw, Crowned 2022 Hanover Festival Queen

Medical student, Maricka Shaw, topped the field of seven contestants vying for the 2022 Hanover Festival Queen title, to walk away with the crown during Saturday’s coronation at Rusea’s High School in Lucea. She will represent Hanover in the national...
Minister of Transport and Mining, Hon. Audley Shaw, CD, MP
Minister of Transport and Mining, Hon. Audley Shaw, CD, MP

Jamaica’s Seafarers Commended
Justice Minister, Hon. Delroy Chuck (second right), engages with Jamaica Constabulary Force Officer Corporal Desrine McLeod (left), of the Domestic Violence Centre in Santa Cruz, St. Elizabeth, during the Legal Aid Council Justice Fair in the town on Friday (June 24). Looking on are Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams (right), and Custos Rotulorum for St. Elizabeth, Hon. Beryl Hope Rochester.
Justice Minister, Hon. Delroy Chuck (second right), engages with Jamaica Constabulary Force Officer Corporal Desrine McLeod (left), of the Domestic Violence Centre in Santa Cruz, St. Elizabeth, during the Legal Aid Council Justice Fair in the town on Friday (June 24). Looking on are Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams (right), and Custos Rotulorum for St. Elizabeth, Hon. Beryl Hope Rochester.

Jamaicans Encouraged To Utilise Alternative Dispute Resolution Services
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr. (right, foreground), presents Deputy Research Director at Bodles Research Station in St. Catherine, Michelle Sherwood, with the keys for the two Case IH Farmall tractors that were handed over to the facility on Friday (June 24). At left is Chief Technical Director in the Agriculture Ministry, Orville Palmer.
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr. (right, foreground), presents Deputy Research Director at Bodles Research Station in St. Catherine, Michelle Sherwood, with the keys for the two Case IH Farmall tractors that were handed over to the facility on Friday (June 24). At left is Chief Technical Director in the Agriculture Ministry, Orville Palmer.

Bodles Research Station Gets Tractors Valued $15.6 Million
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange (left), and Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams (right), congratulate Olympian, Shericka Jackson, following her victory in the Women’s 100-metres final during the 2022 National Senior and Junior Athletics Championships at the National Stadium, on Friday (June 24).
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange (left), and Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams (right), congratulate Olympian, Shericka Jackson, following her victory in the Women’s 100-metres final during the 2022 National Senior and Junior Athletics Championships at the National Stadium, on Friday (June 24).

PHOTOS: National Senior and Junior Athletics Championships

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Chief Technical Director with responsibility for Social Security in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Audrey Deer-Williams, addresses the launch of the Ministry’s Community Engagement Series (CES) at the St. John’s Methodist Church in Montego Bay, St. James, on Wednesday (June 22).
LabourSocial Security

PATH Community Engagement Series Kicks Off In Montego Bay

The Ministry of Labour and Social Security launched its Programme of Advancement Through Health & Education (PATH) Community Engagement Series (CES) in Montego Bay, St. James, on Wednesday (June 22). Scores of persons turned out for the event, held at the St. John’s Methodist Church in Montego Bay, where they were sensitised about the various social security programmes offered by...
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Chief Executive Officer of the Registrar General’s Department (RGD), Charlton McFarlane.
Office of the Prime Minister

RGD Met 60 Per Cent Of Target For ‘Father’s Day’ Promotion

The Registrar General's Department (RGD) achieved 60 per cent of its target for its special ‘Status Day’ promotion on June 20. The event, held in observance of Father’s Day, enabled fathers to add their names to their child’s birth certificate, free of cost. Complimentary registrations were given to the first five applicants at each of the RGD’s 10 locations across...
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JIS0978: Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang (fourth left) breaks ground for construction of the new Lacovia Police Station in St. Elizabeth on Thursday (June 23). He is joined by (from left) Member of Parliament for St. Elizabeth North East, Delroy Slowley; Assistant General Manager, Special Projects, Research and Development at the National Housing Trust (NHT), Brian Saunders; Commissioner of Police, Major General Antony Anderson; Member of Parliament for St. Elizabeth North West, J.C. Hutchinson; and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of National Security, Courtney Williams.
National Security

Ground Broken For State-Of-The-Art Police Station In Lacovia

Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, broke ground for the construction of a new state-of-the-art police station in Lacovia, St. Elizabeth, on Thursday (June 23) The 5,223-square-foot facility will be built at a cost of $175 million under the Ministry’s ‘Project Rebuild, Overhaul, and Construct’ (ROC), designed to reconstruct, renovate, and retrofit police stations islandwide. The scope of...
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Minister of Transport and Mining, Hon. Audley Shaw (second right), and President, Quality Corporate Aircraft Services (QCAS) Aero, Ronald Sammy (third left), display the commemorative plaque for the inaugural flight by Quality Corporate Aircraft Services (QCAS) Aero, out of Fort Lauderdale to the Ian Fleming International Airport in St. Mary on Wednesday (June 22). Also pictured are (from left) President, Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ), Audley Deidrick; Director of Business Development, QCAS Aero, Andrew Nicholson; and Member of Parliament, St. Mary Western, Robert Montague.
Transport

Transport Ministry Expects Aviation Traffic To Rebound

The Ministry of Transport and Mining is forecasting a full return to pre-COVID-19 aviation traffic levels of approximately 6.5 million passengers annually, by the year 2025. This was noted by Portfolio Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw, at an official ceremony to welcome the inaugural flight by Quality Corporate Aircraft Services (QCAS) Aero, from Fort Lauderdale in the United States to the...
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Foreign AffairsOffice of the Prime Minister

Statement From Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Result of Commonwealth Secretary General Race

Statement From Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Result of Commonwealth Secretary General Race I extend sincere congratulations to the incumbent, Baroness Scotland on her re-election as Commonwealth Secretary General. It was a good contest and the Baroness prevailed. My heartfelt congratulations and commendations also to our Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Hon. Kamina Johnson Smith who ran...
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