Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., says the National Tree Planting Initiative is on track with more than 730,000 seedlings planted and distributed as at the beginning of September 2021. “The initiative is aimed at planting three million trees over a three-year period and was launched by the  Prime Minister, the Most Hon....

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is assuring stakeholders in the aquaculture and industrial areas of the fisheries sector that they will benefit from the new licensing and registration system. The new web-based system will allow stakeholders to apply for licensing and registration documentation online as well as improve the existing manual procedures involved in those processes. Agriculture and Fisheries...

  NEW CASES 24 HRS OVERALL Confirmed Cases 510 77,497 SEX CLASSIFICATION     Females 293 44,059 Males 216 33,434 Under Investigation 1 4 AGE RANGE 2 days to 103 years 1 day to 108 years PARISH CLASSIFICATION OF NEW CASES     Clarendon 2 4,034 Hanover 27 2,556 KSA 88 19,306 Manchester 4 5,339 Portland 0 2,104 St. Ann...

Effective Wednesday (September 15), administration of the Pfizer coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine will be suspended until a second shipment arrives from the United States (US) within the next two to three weeks. Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, who made the disclosure during a press conference on Tuesday (September 14), said that administration of the more than...

Director of Operations, National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), Aretha McFarlane, says there has been positive response to the ‘Drum a Di Gate’ initiative. “So far it is good. Persons have been cooperating. They have been using the drums for the intended purpose,” she told JIS News in a recent interview. Launched in November 2020, ‘Drum a Di Gate’ aims...

Stakeholders in the fisheries sector can expect a reduction in the processing time for licensing and registration applications, under the developing fisheries licensing and registration system. The Government through the Finance Ministry’s Transformation Implementation Unit (TIU), working with the Agriculture and Fisheries Ministry, is upgrading the manual processes involved in providing licensing and registration to stakeholders in the fisheries sector....

The Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) says it has strengthened the capacity of its vector control programme to effectively prevent and control any future outbreaks of vector-borne diseases. In an interview with JIS News, Regional Vector Control Officer for the WRHA, Ryan Morris, informed that the health region resumed its enhanced vector control programme at the end of July, with...