Jamaica is on target to successfully complete the European Union (EU) budget support programme, ‘Addressing Environmental and Climate Change Challenges through Improved Forest Management for Jamaica’, next year. The announcement was made by Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., during his address at the 32nd meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Forestry...

The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) is advising that all COVID-19 protocols are being observed during the collection of data for the 2021 Reproductive Health Survey. Data collection began in August and will end in December. Speaking at a recent Jamaica Information Service (JIS) ‘Think Tank’ at the Agency’s head office in Kingston, Head of the Special Projects Unit, Surveys...

The team Jamaica camp is upbeat after the island’s Country Pavilion was named one of the ‘coolest’ at World Expo 2020, Dubai The ITP Media Group’s subsidiary, Time Out Dubai, recently published an article featuring the “coolest country pavilions” setting up for the global event, which gets under way in October. Jamaica was among just 13 standouts recognised of the...

The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) is reassuring the public that information collected during the Reproductive Health Survey (RHS) is strictly confidential. “Interviewers have to sign a Secrets Act as well as a Form of Oath that they maintain the confidentiality. Anything that is disclosed to them, they have to keep it private,” said Head of the Special Projects Unit,...

The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) is encouraging citizens to participate in the 15th National Population and Housing Census slated for April 2022, which for the first time will be undertaken using tablet computers procured by e-Learning Jamaica Limited. “The census is a national project; it does not only benefit the Government but citizens,” Deputy Director General of STATIN, Leesha...

Jamaica has been elected unopposed as Chair of the Latin American and Caribbean Forestry Commission (LACFC) for the next two years. This was at the 32nd LACFC meeting, which is being held virtually from September 6 to 10. Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Department and Conservator of Forests, Ainsley Henry, will serve as President of the LACFC during the...

The Victim Services Division (VSD), Ministry of Justice, is encouraging Jamaicans to avoid victim blaming. Victim blaming occurs when the victim of a crime or any wrongful act is held entirely or partially at fault for the harm done to him or her. Programme Manager at the VSD,  Dionne Dawn Binns, told JIS News that victim blaming is not always...