Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Jamaica National Agency for Accreditation (JANAAC), Sharonmae Shirley, is encouraging more entities to become accredited to international standards. “If you are a manufacturer, exporter, service provider or own and operate testing laboratories, accreditation is important because quality is necessary for economic development and will distinguish your product and service as being one globally accepted,”...

Students wishing to pursue studies at the International University of the Caribbean (IUC) will have the opportunity to engage in Peace Studies as an Academic Discipline, through its Peace Institute. This is a radical shift in the focus of the University, apart from its ongoing offerings in higher education. President of the IUC, Professor Roderick Hewitt, told JIS News at...

The introduction of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) methods to youth across the country could secure strengthened conflict-management techniques. ADR methods such as mediation, restorative justice, conciliation and arbitration are processes and techniques persons can use to settle disputes outside of the courts. Manager for Youth Services and Administration at the Dispute Resolution Foundation (DRF), Cherrol Taylor, told JIS News that...

Carnival Sunrise will dock at the Ocho Rios pier in St. Ann on Wednesday (September 22) bringing more than 2,000 cruise passengers to the island. The Carnival Cruise Line’s vessel will be the second mega liner to call at Ocho Rios in two consecutive days, with the 3,000-passenger MSC Meraviglia docking at the resort town on Tuesday (September 21). Wednesday’s...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says cruise shipping remains an important value-added complement to stopover arrivals and will also be a crucial component to Jamaica’s tourism recovery efforts. Two cruise ships will call on Ocho Rios this week, bringing to five the number of vessels to have called on the resort town since the phased reopening of the sector...

Jamaica has called for the intervention of the Pan-American Health Organisation (PAHO) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) to ensure the global acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccines being administered by developing countries. “Jamaica would ask that the WHO and PAHO intervene to ensure that essential medicines and health technologies that have gone through the rigours of approval are recognised and...

Jamaica’s Minister of Health & Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton has called for greater efforts to address equality of access to essential medicines and health technologies, even as countries the world over pursue efforts to rein in the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking Monday at the 59th PAHO Directing Council Meeting, for which Jamaica is chair, the Minister said it was...