The Credit Unions of Jamaica handed over a cheque for $500,000.00 to the Jamaica Social Stock Exchange (JSSE) to assist Mona Tech Engineering Services to repair much needed ventilators for the Jamaica Health Sector during this COVID-19 crisis. The contribution was received at a brief ceremony held at the Jamaica Stock Exchange’s (JSE) Head Office at 40 Harbour Street, Kingston,...

   

The Institute of Jamaica's Programme's Coordination Division will host its annual HUSH Children's Symposium on Wednesday (May 20). The event will be a virtual occasion under the theme, 'Views YOU Choose: Real Talk'. It will be hosted on the Zoom platform and is slated to begin at 10 am and go for two hours. The details for the event are:...

Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw, says an additional $1billion has been allocated to the Ministry’s Productivity Incentive Programme (PIP) to assist small farmers in light of challenges being experienced because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mr. Shaw said the sum is contained in the early supplementary budget recently tabled in Parliament by Finance and the Public Service...

Today (May 15), the Executive Board of the IMF approved Jamaica’s request for access to the IMF’s Rapid Financing Instrument in the amount of approximately US$520 million. This represents 100% of Jamaica’s quota and the maximum amount available under this facility. The Government of Jamaica has taken strong and decisive action to slow the spread of the new coronavirus in...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Zavia Mayne, says the distribution of care packages to residents in quarantined communities in St. Mary is working well. “I am very satisfied that we have the formula. We have the boots on the ground and we have covered this space within a reasonable time, so I am...

Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor McKenzie, has reported that the majority of persons who contracted the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Jamaica are asymptomatic. “Our experience with COVID-19, so far, is that very few persons get ill,” Dr. Bisasor McKenzie said, at a virtual press conference in Kingston on May 13. “So far, of the 509 positive cases we have seen,...