Destination Jamaica has been boosted with the opening of 444 new suites at Ocean Eden Bay in Trelawny. Ocean Eden Bay is an addition to Ocean Coral Spring, owned and operated by the Spanish Hotel chain, H10 Hotels. In an interview with JIS News following a tour of the newly opened facility on  November 8, Director of Sales, Ocean Coral...

Community Relations Officer at the National Works Agency (NWA), Janel Ricketts, says the agency has been successful in clearing roadways in St. James and Hanover that were blocked due to heavy rains, on Monday (November 8). “In St. James, we had sections of the Barnett to Adelphi (roadway), as well as sections of the Montego Bay to Great River (Hanover)...

The productivity and efficiency of more than 260 government entities are expected to  improve greatly with the use of newly acquired geographic information System (GIS) technology. This follows a new enterprise licence agreement Jamaica has entered into with American technology firm, Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri) – a global market leader in GIS technology that the Government of Jamaica has...

Mayor of Montego Bay, Councillor Leeroy Williams, is encouraging the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) to urge business owners in the city to give their establishments a facelift. Councillor Williams was addressing a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) ‘Think Tank’ held at the offices of the St. James Municipal Corporation in Montego Bay, St. James, on November 8....

The Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) has organised a host of events to commemorate Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), which is being observed November 8 to12. The events include a Business Dialogue Forum on Monday (November 8) at 1:00 p.m.; JBDC Virtual Biz Zone on Tuesday (November 9) at 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.; Opportunity Evening on Wednesday (November 10) at...

The Red Rose Fish Market in downtown Kingston is scheduled for reopening next week. Mayor of Kingston, Senator Councillor Delroy Williams, made the disclosure during today’s (November 9) meeting of the Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation,  at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston. “We are doing our final touches on the market and we will be opening the...

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has recommended that only two groups in member countries be provided with an additional dose of coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine known as a booster shot. They are immunocompromised persons, regardless of which vaccine they took, and individuals over age 60 who received an inactivated virus vaccine. Immunocompromised persons include cancer patients, HIV-positive individuals, and transplant...