Regional Director at the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB), Odette Soberam-Dyer, says Kingston is growing as a tourist destination and lauded Frontier Airlines for helping to push that growth. Speaking with journalists on November 7, on the arrival of passengers from the airline’s inaugural flight from Atlanta in the United States (US) to Kingston, the JTB official said, “It is a...

Members of the Teachers’ Colleges of Jamaica (TCJ) 2022 graduating class, at the exercise held on November 6 at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus.

The Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities (JCPD) has underscored the need for greater partnerships between State agencies to better serve individuals with physical and mental challenges, especially children. Social Worker with the Western Region, Shereena Thomas Shaw, emphasised this point while speaking during a recent information fair, jointly hosted by the JCPD and the Sam Sharpe Diagnostic and Early...

The Oracabessa Bay Fish Sanctuary in St. Mary is benefiting from enhanced protection and monitoring, through nature-based and scientific innovations under the Oracabessa Marine Trust Reef Restoration Project. The project, which began in 2013 to primarily protect corals from bleaching and other forms of degradation, also aims to restore the Diadema Sea Urchin, after a mass die-off of the animal...

Work under way to overhaul and upgrade the National Water Commission’s (NWC) distribution network, to better facilitate the management of non-revenue water, is key to increasing the delivery of the commodity to Jamaicans. Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator the Hon. Matthew Samuda, in making the statement, said a 2016 study revealed that...

The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) is pursuing two main strategies to highlight and promote the use of best practices for community development. Speaking at the seventh staging of the Symposium on Best Practices for Social and Community Development on Wednesday, November 2 at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, the agency’s Director General, Dr. Wayne Henry, said that this is being...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Hon. Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn (second left), engages with Under Secretary-General and Executive Director, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Winifred Byanyima (second right), following her arrival at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston on Sunday (November 6). Sharing in the moment (from left) are UNAIDS Country Director for Jamaica,...