Education, Youth and Information Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams, on Tuesday (July 6), broke ground for the construction of a Child Therapeutic Centre at the Maxfield Park Children’s Home in Kingston, at a cost of more than $117 million. Construction of the centre is being undertaken through funding in the amount of $30 million provided by the Child Protection and Family...

The Justice Ministry’s Restorative Justice Unit (RJU) has recorded an increase in self-referrals to restorative justice (RJ) intervention. “With COVID, we’ve seen an increase in situations where there are self-referrals. This is because there is the household with other family members with whom persons may not always get along. Also, because persons are in the same space for such a...

Minister of Tourism, Hon Edmund Bartlett, says the recovery of the tourism sector is taking place faster than anticipated with arrivals for the year now projected at 1.8 million visitors. He credited the strong performance to Jamaica's management of the pandemic, noting that the “quality of the product was maintained”, which has “done us well”. He noted that over the...

Shelter managers in the town of Santa Cruz, St. Elizabeth, took part in a refresher course at the St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, on Tuesday, July 6. This was the second in a series of sensitisation activities planned for the parish for the month of July, as the country prepares for the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season that runs from June 1 to November 30. Parish...

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. Kamina Johnson Smith, has expressed deep regret and sadness on the assassination of Haitian President, His Excellency Jovenel Moïse. President Moïse, who held this post since 2017, was killed at his home on Wednesday (July 7). His wife, First Lady Martine Moïse, was injured during the attack. “We all woke...

  NEW CASES 24 HRS OVERALL Confirmed Cases 52 50,456 SEX CLASSIFICATION     Females 29 28,220 Males 23 22,233 Under Investigation 0 3 AGE RANGE 2 years to 86 years 1 day to 108 years         PARISH CLASSIFICATION OF NEW CASES     Clarendon 0 2,731 Hanover 2 1,376 Kingston & St. Andrew 15 13,927 Manchester...

Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, is calling on Jamaicans to monitor and destroy mosquito breeding sites in and around their homes, as the Dengue fever remains a threat. “The mosquito still represents a threat to the population because it is the carrier of the dengue virus,” he said, while on a tour of the National...