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...

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...

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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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...

More than 24 vendors will be occupying the newly rebuilt Hopewell Market in Hanover, which was officially opened on Thursday (June 23), by Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie. The modern facility, constructed at a cost of approximately $23 million, replaces the old market that had fallen into disrepair. The rebuilt structure boasts new stalls, fish...

Amended Regulations for the State of Public Emergency (SOE), which was declared in the parish of St. Catherine on Friday (June 17), was tabled during a brief sitting of the House of Representatives today (June 23). Minister of National Security and Deputy Prime Minister, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, who tabled the Emergency Powers (Parish of St. Catherine) (No. 3) Regulations,...