Attractive green spaces have been established at the Lethe and Bickersteth Primary and Infant schools in St. James, which will serve as recreational areas for the students and wider community members. The facilities were created at a total cost of over $3 million under the Parks and Green Spaces Project of the Integrated Community Development Project – Phase 2 (ICDP...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, is urging Jamaicans to take acts of violence by family members seriously. Speaking during a visit with Gwendolyn McKnight on Friday (July 1), who is mourning the brutal murder of her daughter and four grand-children in Cocoa Piece, Clarendon, Prime Minister Holness said violent behaviours “must be treated with, in the first instance”....

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Karl Samuda (left), speaks with centenarian, Sylvia Lyn, at her Petherton Avenue home in Pembroke Hall, St. Andrew, on Friday (July 1). The Minister visited with Ms. Lyn and presented her with a gift basket, as part of post-Centenarians’ Day activities by the National Council for Senior Citizen (NCSC). Centenarians’ Day was observed...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, said it is important that the country recognises and appreciates its senior citizens, particularly those who have lived beyond 100 years. He said that the Government acknowledges and continues to put programmes in place to support and protect them, including the Social Pension Programme for persons 75 years and older. Mr. Holness was...

Centenarian Frannie Wright displays a photograph of her being presented with an award by late former Governor General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Howard Cooke, for her contribution to national development. Occasion was a visit to the 102-year-old’s Shalimar Avenue address in Kingston on Friday (July 1) to present her with a gift baskeT as part of the National Council...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, is appealing to the country’s senior citizens, 75 years and older, to sign up to benefit from support under the Social Pension Programme. “They are entitled to it, even if they were not employed or were not contributing [to a pension] because we have taken the position that the vulnerable in our society,...

The White House has announced Jamaican Dr. Sandra Lindsay among 17 Americans named by President Biden to be recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The awards will be presented at the White House on Thursday (July 7). Sandra Lindsay is a Jamaican American critical care nurse in New York, who served on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic...