The National Works Agency (NWA) is now executing a major drainage project in the community of Watermount in St. Catherine. The agency is replacing a key drainage feature that has been the source of much flooding along this corridor. Under the project which is valued at just over $45 million, the agency will be replacing pipe culverts with a reinforced...

NEW CASES 24 HRS OVERALL Confirmed Cases 88 48,821 SEX CLASSIFICATION     Females 49 27,290 Males 39 21,528 Under Investigation 0 3 AGE RANGE 1 year to 98 years 1 day to 108 years         PARISH CLASSIFICATION OF NEW CASES     Clarendon 4 2,650 Hanover 0 1,306 Kingston & St. Andrew 19 13,568 Manchester 9...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says he welcomes the United States’ commitment to donate millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Latin America and the Caribbean. The Joseph Biden administration announced on Thursday (June 3) that it will donate millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Latin America and the Caribbean. “We welcome the announcement of the United...

Minister of Education Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, has hailed 14-year-old Kelvin Peart of Queenhythe, Discovery Bay, St. Ann, for taking on the selfless task of tutoring students in his community who have been impacted by the closure of schools, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Kelvin, a grade-eight student of Ferncourt High School in Claremont, St. Ann, transformed an...

Acting Director General, Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), Richard Thompson, says islandwide shelter preparation activities got under way last year in readiness for the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to November 30. “In preparing for the 2021 hurricane season, ODPEM conducted a series of shelter management training across the island where our shelter...

The Victim Services Division (VSD) is slated to reach more than a thousand Jamaicans through virtual sensitisation efforts on matters relating to Child Abuse and Domestic Violence. Special emphasis is being placed on highlighting the vulnerability of persons who become victims of abuse and crime during childhood, as a form of preventative action. Executive Director of the VSD, Osbourne Bailey,...

Chairman of the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA), LeVaughn Flynn, says Jamaica must better position itself to capitalise on the growing global market for cannabis, as more countries are permitting its use for medicinal, scientific and therapeutic purposes. “Specifically, we need to get to a place where we are producing more cannabis by-products like nutraceutical pills, tinctures and cannabidiol (CBD) water....