With the recent commemoration of World Cancer Day, the Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA) used the opportunity to focus on its healthcare workers, by providing them with free cancer screening, education and wellness checks. Scores of healthcare workers from the parishes of St. Elizabeth, Clarendon and Manchester gathered at the St. James Methodist Church hall in Clarendon on February 24...

The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) has extended the deadline for the submission of entries for its 2022 competitions. The original February 28 date has been pushed back to allow potential participants more time to complete and submit their entries. The new deadline for the JCDC’s flagship event, the Jamaica Festival Song Competition, and the Miss Jamaica Festival Queen Competition,...

The Government has identified land in St. Catherine to construct a state-of-the-art correctional facility. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, says the Sugar Corporation of Jamaica has been “quite generous” in providing approximately 300 acres, “so that we can build a proper modern [facility].” He was responding to questions during Tuesday’s (March 1) meeting...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, said that the public-sector compensation restructuring exercise will better enable the Government to recruit and retain talented and experienced persons in the civil service. He was addressing Tuesday’s (March 1) meeting of the Standing Finance Committee of the House of Representatives, which is deliberating the 2022/23 Estimates of...

The Jamaica Centre of Tourism Innovation (JCTI) has launched a new certification programme for professionals in the tourism industry. The Certification in Hotel Industry Analytics (CHIA) is an internationally recognised resource for managers and a critical certification for final-year students going into tourism and hospitality management. Speaking at the virtual launch on February 25, Executive Director, Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF),...

A sum of $31 million has been earmarked in the 2022/2023 tourism budget to support Jamaica’s creative and cultural industries. Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, made the disclosure while addressing the premiere of the film ‘Link Up’ at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona, Western Jamaica Campus (WJC) in Montego Bay, St. James, on Sunday (February 27)....

The issuing of identification cards (IDs) under the National Identification System (NIDS) will begin through a pilot programme to be undertaken in Kingston and St. Andrew. Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, Hon. Floyd Green, said that the exercise is expected to kick off “early in the second half of this year”. He was speaking during...