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Executive Director of the Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities, Dr. Christine Hendricks

Persons In Disabled Community Encouraged To Join JCPD To Access Benefits

Registered members of the Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities (JCPD) are being encouraged to apply for the various benefits that are available to them through the Council. Executive Director of the JCPD, Dr. Christine Hendricks, told JIS News during...

COVID-19 Provides Opportunity To Capitalise On ICT – Education Minister

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, emphasises a point while addressing a digital press conference on Monday (July 26).

PM Announces New Curfew Hours, Other COVID-19 Containment Measures

Corporate Communications and Community Awareness Coordinator, Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo), Marline Stephenson Dalley.

TPDCo Hosts Webinar To Commemorate 25th Anniversary

Regional Vector Control Officer at the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), Ryan Morris.

CHAs Assisting Vector Control Efforts In Western Region

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (left), is in discussion with President of JAMPRO, Diane Edwards (right), and Chairman of Portmore Holdings Limited, Gordon Tewani, at the opening of an IBEX business process outsourcing (BPO) facility at G-Tech Park in Portmore, St. Catherine, on Friday (July 23).

5 years ago Works / Construction

Construction Boom A Signal Of Economic Recovery – PM

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says that the construction sector is experiencing a major boom, which is a clear sign of economic recovery. “We are now seeing a very strong resurgence in building and construction. During the pandemic [it] increased and it is a good sign for the country that persons are taking the financial risk to construct,”...

Managing Director, Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeney (right), in discussion with Operations Director, S&G Road Surfacing Materials Ltd, James Sampson while touring sections of the Port Royal Coastal Revetment Project recently. The World Bank loan-funded development is being coordinated by JSIFand implemented under the Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project (DVRP). The project aims to create protective infrastructure along the Port Royal Street corridor that will safeguard it against the effects of potential storm surges resulting from climate change. This thoroughfare is deemed integral to the east-west transportation network in the Kingston Metropolitan Area (KMA).

5 years ago Environment

PHOTOS: JSIF Managing Director Tours Port Royal Coastal Revetment Project

5 years ago CoronavirusHealth & Wellness

COVID-19 Update for Sunday, July 25, 2021

NEW CASES 24 HRS OVERALL NOTES Confirmed Cases 105 52,089 SEX CLASSIFICATION Females 53 29,161 Males 52 22,925 Under Investigation 0 3 AGE RANGE 1 day to 79 years 1 day to 108 years PARISH CLASSIFICATION OF NEW CASES Clarendon 8 2,774 Hanover 10 1,484 Kingston & St. Andrew 18 14,319 Manchester...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, addresses the opening of an IBEX Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) facility at the G Tech Park in Portmore, St. Catherine, on Friday, (July 23).

5 years ago CommunityDevelopmentOffice of the Prime MinisterPrime Minister

Portmore Positioned to Secure Parish Status – Prime Minister Holness

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the community of Portmore in St. Catherine has been evolving in a manner that now positions it to secure parish status. Mr. Holness said once a community records notable growth and development in the way Portmore has, particularly since becoming a municipality, it should be given the requisite support to advance its governance structure. “Once you start to see emerging in a people, a certain level of independence and expression of their sense of...

Their Excellencies, the Governor-General, the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen (left), and Lady Allen (2nd left, partly hidden), greet officiating priest for Sunday’s (July 25) Jamaica National Drumhead Church Service, Major Rev. Dr. Damian Ffriend (2nd right), and assistant officiating priest, Major Rev. Milverton Munroe (right). The service was held at the Jamaica Defence Force’s (JDF) Curphey Barracks, Up Park Camp, Kingston.

5 years ago Governor General

Their Excellencies, the Governor-General, the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen and Lady Allen attend the Jamaica National Drumhead Church Service (Photos)

Minister of State in the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, Hon. Homer Davis (left), in conversation with Member of Parliament for South West Clarendon, Lothan Cousins (right), while touring a section of the community of Banks in the parish on July 22. Others (from left) are: Councillor for the Race Course Division, Pauline Reynolds, and Chief Executive Officer for the Clarendon Municipal Corporation, Rohan Blake.

5 years ago Local GovernmentRural Development

Major Developments Earmarked for Banks Community in Clarendon

The Community of Banks in Clarendon is slated to benefit from major drainage upgrading and an electrification exercise for households, among other engagements, under the Government’s $650 million Rural Development Programme. Minister of State in the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, Hon. Homer Davis, says Banks is one of four communities islandwide where the programmed activities, designed to enhance the lives of residents and the overall economic...

The first cohort of graduates from the Events Planning and Management Level 3 Supervisory Course offered by the HEART/NSTA Trust College of Hospitality Services in partnership with the Social Development Commission (SDC). The occasion was their graduation ceremony at the SDC complex in St. Catherine on July 22

5 years ago EducationInformationYouth

Twenty-Three Students Graduate From Events Planning And Management Course

The first cohort of 23 students who participated in an Events Planning and Management Level 3 Supervisory Course, offered by the HEART/NSTA Trust, have completed their studies. They were presented with skills certificates during their graduation ceremony at the Social Development Commission (SDC) complex in St. Catherine, on July 22. The programme, a partnership between the HEART College of Hospitality...