The preservation of trees is critical to sustaining Jamaica’s development, according to Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator the Hon. Matthew Samuda. Minister Samuda, who made the comments at the recent launch of the Forestry Department’s National School Tree Planting Competition at the agency’s offices in Constant Spring, St. Andrew, said planting and...

Approximately 7,000 students who sat this year’s Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations and are deemed in need of special assistance with their academics, will receive support from the Ministry of Education and Youth during the 2022/23 school year. Some $29 million is slated to be spent by the Ministry to undertake special assessments for students categorised on Pathway Two and...

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Monday, September 12 is Census Day, and it will serve as the reference point for the data being collected during Jamaica’s 15th Population and Housing Census over the ensuing three months. The census is a count of the country’s population and provides social and demographic data, details of the housing stock, information at the community level, and on hard-to-count individuals...

Jamaica has, this year, recorded the best stopover visitor arrivals figure and foreign exchange earnings for any summer period in the country’s history. Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, indicated that “we have 5,000 more visitors than in [the summer of] 2019, which was a record year; [and] the better news is that our earnings in the summer [of 2022 are]...

Leader of the Opposition, Mark Golding, signs the Condolence Book which was opened at King’s House for the United Kingdom’s late Monarch, Her Majesty, The Queen. Mr. Golding signed on Sunday (September 11).

Former Prime Minister, the Most. Hon. P.J. Patterson signs the Condolence Book which was opened at King’s House for Great Britain’s late Monarch, Her Majesty, The Queen. Mr. Patterson signed the Book on Sunday (September 11).