The new JS 358: 2022 Standard, which stipulates the limit for lead content in paints and other surface coating material distributed and retailed locally, is to be promulgated by month-end and will take effect in January 2023. Its development was spearheaded by the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) Paints and Surface Coatings Technical Committee and comes against the background of...

Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang (right), participates in the handover of tablet computers to students at the St. Andrew-based Greenwich Town Primary School, on June 21. Others pictured (from left) are Anita Bennett, student; Principal of the school, Andrea Richards, and another student, Jerdane Dixon.

The National Water Commission is advising that its Contractors will be undertaking the final phase of interconnection works for the new pipeline now installed along Spanish Town Road in the Kingston and St Andrew area. The works will commence on Friday, June 24, 2022. However, based on the extensive nature of the activity, two to three days will be required...

Anticipation is high for the return of the major Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show by the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), which was officially launched today (June 22). The 68th staging of the event follows a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic and will take place at its usual home, the Denbigh Showground in May Pen, Clarendon, under the...

The Norwood area in St. James and Denham Town in Kingston stand to benefit from Jamaica’s first community violence audit to support the prevention and reduction of gun violence under a United Nations Jamaica joint programme. The more than $70-million national initiative ‘Reducing Small Arms and Light Weapons Joint Programme, also known as SALIENT Jamaica, aims to dismantle the factors...

Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen (second right), is introduced to international interns by Chief Executive Officer of the GraceKennedy Foundation, Caroline Mahfood (right). The interns, who are part of the GraceKennedy Jamaican Birthright Programme, are (from left) Jada Allison and Chardonnae Deslandes, who are both from the US; Olivia Hlyton-Pennant, United Kingdom and Debbie Buck from...

The diaspora is being lobbied to support three projects, for which the organisers are seeking to raise $33 million on the Jamaica Social Stock Exchange (JSSE) to fund ongoing implementation. Managing Director of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) of which the JSSE is a subsidiary, Dr. Marlene Street Forrest, says the listed engagements are the ‘Stop the Violence’ project (formerly...