The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining is aiming to employ the sterile insect technique (SIT), through the Plant Quarantine Produce Inspection (PQPI) unit, to reduce the island’s fruit fly population. This technique involves the mass production and release of sterilised male insects into the wild, where they mate with wild females but produce no offspring, thereby reducing the overall...

More than 400 children and their families have received care packages consisting of grocery items from the National Child Month Committee (NCMC). The distribution of the packages, which marked the conclusion of Child Month 2024, took place on Friday, May 31, at the Pentecostal Gospel Temple, 111 Windward Road, Kingston. This initiative involved sponsorship and support from National Baking Company...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Education and Youth, Hon. Marsha Smith (seated second right) and Acting Chief Education Officer, Ministry of Education and Youth, Terry-Ann Thomas-Gayle (seated second left) share a photo opportunity with members of a delegation from Boston College in Montserrat during their visit to the Ministry’s Heroes Circle offices in Kington on June 3.

 

The exciting 2024 Public Sector Debate Competition gets under way on Tuesday, June 4, with the preliminary round of matches. Round One will take place over two days (June 4 and 5) and will include six matches on Day 1 and seven on Day 2. All matches will be streamed live via the Transformation Implementation Unit (TIU) Facebook and YouTube...

Minister of Tourism, Hon Edmund Bartlett has reported that Jamaica has recorded a historic 2 million visitors within the first five months of the year. Preliminary data has highlighted that the island welcomed 1,265,830 stopover arrivals and 745,812 cruise passengers from January to May. This translates to an 8.5% increase in arrivals and USD 1.9 billion in earnings. The Minister,...

The Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC) will be processing registration applications for Data Controllers in order of priority. In a public notice published on June 2, the OIC said it is balancing the rights and interests of all people as it phases implementation of the Data Protection Act. In the first phase, from June 1 to August 31, 2024,...