The Jamaica Intellectual Property Office is looking to incorporate the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances, 2012, which seeks to protect performers in their performances. Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Audley Shaw, made the disclosure during the BluShip Corporate Linkages Media Briefing on Trade in Cultural Goods, at the AC Hotels by Marriott, St. Andrew on November 25. He...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness has launched a ‘Good Ganja Sense’ website, which serves as a hub for accurate and scientific information on ganja, particularly within the Jamaican context. The website, at goodganjasense.org, provides fact-based information about the marijuana plant, and serves as a tool to build awareness about its uses and effects. Speaking at the virtual launch and...

Special Projects Manager at the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), Andrine Davidson is one of three persons chosen as Civil Servant of the Year for 2021/2022 She copped the award after topping the field of entrants in the category of Management. The other winners are Driver with the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Clayton McCalla, who topped the field in the...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness has implemented a raft of measures that are geared towards ending AIDS in Jamaica. Acting Senior Medical Officer (SMO) in the HIV/STI/TB Unit in the Ministry, Dr. Alisha Robb-Allen, outlined the details during a JIS Think Tank on Friday (November 26). She informed that of the 32, 000 persons that are estimated by UNAIDS...

Some 100 students who attend Anchovy High school in St. James have been vaccinated against the coronavirus (COVID-19), at a vaccination blitz held at the institution on November 25. The event targeted students and parents, as the administration pushes to get 65 percent of the student population vaccinated to facilitate the resumption of face-to-face classes. The blitz was hosted in...

Jamaica has, with immediate effect, imposed restrictions on travelers from a number of African countries, following the emergence of the new variant of concern for the SARS-CoV-2, initially identified as B.1.1.529. The countries are: Botswana; Eswatini (formerly Swaziland); Lesotho; Malawi; Mozambique; Namibia; South Africa; and Zimbabwe.   NON-NATIONALS All persons who are not citizens or permanent residents of Jamaica and...

Minister with responsibility for Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw, is calling on stakeholders in the sugar industry to work with the Government to identify solutions to current weaknesses and impediments, in order to promote a thriving sector that can meet market demands. “Together we must find the right parameters for a sustainable Jamaican sugar industry – cane farmers, investors,...