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Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) is reminding the public that select Tax Offices will once again be open for business this month-end Saturday, February 26, 2022, as it has been doing every last Saturday since the start of the 2021/22 financial...

Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams (left), is presented with a book authored by Pat Chin, entitled ‘Miss Pat – My Reggae Music Journey’, and a doll dressed in the Jamaican colours by proprietor of Island Dolls, Beverly Robotham. The representation was made at the Ministry in Kingston on Tuesday (February 22). Ms. Robotham also presented a letter of undertaking to donate five per cent of all doll sales for this year towards the purchase of tablets for students, under the ‘Own Your Own Device’ initiative.

PHOTOS: Education Minister Presented With Book And Jamaican Doll

Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie (fourth left), officially turns on the Top Aberdeen St. Elizabeth water supply, during a ceremony held in the community recently. Sharing in the moment (from left) are Deputy Chairman of Rural Water Supply Limited (RWSL) Peter Clarke; Member of Parliament for St. Elizabeth Northeastern, Delroy Sloley; Acting Regional Manager for the National Water Commission (NWC) - Manchester and St. Elizabeth, Caudel Daley; and Councillor of the Siloah Division, Audie Myers.

Joy In Top Aberdeen As Residents Welcome Water Supply Project

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation (Water, Environment and Climate Change), Senator the Hon. Matthew Samuda (left), and Commissioner of Mines in the Mines and Geology Division of the Ministry of Transport and Mining, Roy Nicholson (right), listen as Senior Manager of the Environmental Sub-Division of the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), Richard Nelson (centre), outlines the dangers of illegal sand mining. Occasion was a recent visit by the Minister to the community of Great Bay in St. Elizabeth, in the wake of illegal sand-mining concerns by residents.

PHOTOS: Minister Samuda Visits Great Bay To Look At Extent Of Damage To Sand Dunes

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Chairman of the Hanover Municipal Corporation and Mayor of Lucea, Councillor, Sheridan Samuels.

4 years ago Local Government

Road And Drain Rehabilitation Programme For Lucea

The Hanover Municipal Corporation will be undertaking a road and drain rehabilitation programme in the town of Lucea. Speaking with JIS News, Mayor of Lucea, Councillor Sheridan Samuels, said that five roadways are scheduled for improvement works to ease traffic congestion in the parish capital. “The street that runs behind [the Corporation’s office], we intend to rehabilitate it to allow...

Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Carissa F. Etienne.

4 years ago CoronavirusCOVID-19 VaccinationHealth & Wellness

More Than 21 Million Caribbean Residents Fully Vaccinated

More than 21 million of the nearly 700 million residents of the Americas who have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus (COVID-19) are from the Caribbean, reports Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director, Dr. Carissa Etienne. The region is home to more than 44 million people. Addressing PAHO’s weekly COVID-19 digital briefing on Wednesday (February 23), Dr. Etienne highlighted the...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon Andrew Holness, addressing a ceremony to hand over certificates of title to 35 residents of St. Elizabeth under the National Land Agency (NLA) Systematic Land Registration (SLR) programme. The presentation took place on Wednesday (February 23) at Newell High School in the parish.

4 years ago HousingPrime Minister

35 St. Elizabeth Residents Receive Land Titles

Thirty-five residents of St. Elizabeth became proud landowners today (February 23) when they were presented with certificates of title for property that they have occupied for several years. The titles, provided under the National Land Agency (NLA) inaugural Systematic Land Registration (SLR) programme, were handed over by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, during a ceremony held at the...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke (centre), speaks with United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Jamaica Country Representative, Mariko Kagoshima (left), during Wednesday’s (February 23) launch of the Government’s Public Expenditure Review (PER) for Jamaica’s Education Sector. The launch took place at the Finance Ministry in Kingston. Listening (from second left) are Minister of Education and Youth, Hon Fayval Williams, and the World Bank’s Caribbean Country Director, Lilia Buruncuic, and Human Development Programme Leader for the Caribbean, Timothy Johnston. The PER was jointly undertaken by UNICEF and the World Bank.

4 years ago EducationFinance & Public Service

Public Expenditure Review Of Education Sector Launched

The Government, on Wednesday (February 23), launched the Public Expenditure Review (PER) for Jamaica’s education sector. Piloted by the Ministries of Finance and the Public Service, and Education and Youth on behalf of the Government, the PER was jointly undertaken by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank. The report highlights that while Jamaica’s expenditure on education,...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator the Hon. Matthew Samuda, addresses a virtual post-Cabinet press briefing on Wednesday (February 23).

4 years ago CabinetEconomic Growth & Infrastructure Development

Gov’t Moving To Strengthen Protection Of Sand Dunes

The Government will be moving to provide greater protection for the sand dunes in the Great Bay area in Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth, and along the southern corridor of the island. Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator the Hon. Matthew Samuda, made the disclosure while addressing a virtual post-Cabinet media briefing on Wednesday...

Minister of Transport and Mining, Hon. Audley Shaw (second left), speaks to farmer Leister Burton (left) before tasting a cherry tomato from Mr. Burton’s greenhouse farm in Manchester. Occasion was a recent tour of the Greenhouse Cluster and Water Harvesting Project in Content in the parish. Minister of State in the Ministry, Hon. J.C. Hutchinson, and Member of Parliament for Manchester Central, Rhoda Moy Crawford, were also on the tour.

4 years ago AgricultureMining

Minister Shaw Hails Use Of Reclaimed Bauxite Lands For Agriculture

The Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI)/Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) Greenhouse Cluster and Water Harvesting Project is being hailed as an example of sustainable land use in post-mining areas. The project, being implemented under the World Bank-funded Rural Economic Development Initiative II (REDI II), which is administered by JSIF, seeks to enhance bauxite communities by encouraging the productive use of mined-out...

A copy of a journal titled ‘Garvey Gems’, which will be launched on Jamaica Day, February 25, by the Jamaica Association for the Deaf Binders.

4 years ago Social Security

Garvey Gems To Be Launched

February 2022 is of great significance to the Jamaica Association for the Deaf (JAD). It is the month that the Disabilities Act came into effect and the month when the JAD Binders launches the Garvey Gems, a journal which consists of memorable quotes used by the Right Excellent Marcus Garvey, National Hero, who advocated for those who are marginalised. Director,...