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Citizens Encouraged To Support Plastic Ban-Compliant Businesses

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr. is encouraging citizens to support businesses that have retrofitted their operations to be compliant with the government ban on single-use plastics. “I am encouraging citizens to be...

Director of Product Quality, Tourism Product Development Company Limited (TPDCo), Deanne Keating-Campbell. (Contributed Photo)

TPDCo Issues Over 1,000 COVID Compliance Certificates To Tourism Entities

Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (left), presents the 2021 Medal of Honour for General Service to Corporal J. Dawkins during the Jamaica Defence Force Armed Forces Day Parade on Friday (July 30), at Up Park Camp, Kingston. Looking on is Chief of Defence Staff, Lt. General Rocky Meade (left).

Medals Presented To JDF Personnel

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (2nd right), speaks with British High Commissioner to Jamaica, His Excellency Asif Ahmad (2nd left), at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston on Friday (July 30), following the arrival of 300,000 doses of AstraZeneca coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines from the United Kingdom. They were joined by Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. Kamina Johnson Smith, and Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton.

Jamaica Receives 300,000 Doses of Vaccines From The UK

Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) Public Relations Officer, Emeleo Ebanks.

Practise Alternatives To Burning When Clearing Land – JFB

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Dunstan Byran, speaking during the Ministry’s virtual COVID Conversations press briefing on Thursday (July 29).

5 years ago CoronavirusHealth & Wellness

Over 307,000 Doses Of COVID-19 Vaccines Administered

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Dunstan Bryan, says that more than 307,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccines have been administered to date. “We have inoculated approximately 180,000 persons with one dose and 127,000 persons with two doses (of the AstraZeneca vaccine),” he informed during the Ministry’s virtual COVID Conversations press briefing on Thursday (July 29). He...

Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, addresses the Governor-General’s Achievement Awards ceremony held at King’s House on July 30.

5 years ago Governor General

Three Exemplary Jamaicans Receive Special 30th Anniversary Governor-General’s Achievement Awards

Three Jamaicans, who have emerged from humble beginnings to make valuable contributions to their communities, were presented with the special 30th Anniversary Governor-General’s Achievement Awards (GGAA), during a ceremony held at King’s House on Thursday (July 29). They are Dr. Chris Kevin Parchment from the county of Cornwall, Krisan Chantae Ennis from Middlesex, and Khadine Natoya “Miss Kitty” Hylton from...

Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett (left), addressing representatives of the Caribbean Alternative Investment Association (CARAIA), during a meeting at the AC Kingston Marriott Hotel, on Thursday (July 29). The meeting was aimed at discussing the creation of an enabling environment to foster investments, leading to the growth of small and medium-sized tourism enterprises.

5 years ago Tourism

Jamaica To Welcome 4.2 Million Visitors, Earn US$4 Billion By 2024

Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, is projecting that Jamaica will recover sufficiently from the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to welcome 4.2 million visitors and generate some US$4 billion in earnings by 2024. He said that the projections are based on the growth trends since the island’s borders were reopened to international travel in June 2020, after being closed...

Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Jamaica, His Excellency Faisal Falah Alharbi (shown on the monitor), officially hands over medical supplies and equipment valued at $32 million to Jamaica during a virtual ceremony from the Health and Wellness Ministry on Thursday (July 29). From left are Executive Director of the Ministry

5 years ago CoronavirusHealth & Wellness

Jamaica Gets Medical Supplies Valued At Over $32 Million From Saudi Arabia

The Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has donated essential medical equipment and supplies valued at over $32 million to Jamaica to aid in the country’s fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The donation, which was facilitated through the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center, comprises 25,000 surgical sterile gowns, 125,000 non-sterile surgical gowns, 188,000 medical masks,1.6 million...

Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, looks into a well beside a National Irrigation Commission Limited (NIC) site in St. Toolies Manchester during a tour of the area last Friday (June 23). The well currently serves as the main source of water for the community, and the Local Government Minister has announced intentions to establish a water shop in the community to provide potable water for residents.

5 years ago Local Government

Water And Housing For South Manchester Communities

The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development has committed to improving the lives of residents of South Manchester communities, through provision of the social service of water and indigent housing for an elderly couple. While on tour of several communities in the South Manchester area last Friday (July 23), the portfolio Minister, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, took note of the...

Managing Director, Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeney (left), speaks with Chairman of JSIF, Dr. Wayne Henry during the Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI) II seminar at the AC Hotel by Marriott in St. Andrew on July 29.

5 years ago Tourism

JSIF Approves Funding To Revise Community Tourism Policy And Facilitate Demand Study

The board of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) has approved funding of $50 million for the evaluation and revision of the National Community Tourism Policy as well as the facilitation of a demand study. Approximately $30 million will go to the evaluation and revision of the policy while $20 million will be used for the demand study. Speaking at...

5 years ago CoronavirusHealth & Wellness

COVID-19 update for Thursday, July 29, 2021

NEW CASES 24 HRS OVERALL Confirmed Cases 180 52,684 SEX CLASSIFICATION Females 107 29,508 Males 73 23,173 Under Investigation 0 3 AGE RANGE 1 day to 95 years 1 day to 108 years PARISH CLASSIFICATION OF NEW CASES Clarendon 2 2,786 Hanover 14 1,510 KSA 57 14,477 Manchester 15 3,196 Portland 3 1,606 St. Ann...