The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade is today advising that this morning, one of its employees at the Consulate General in New York tested positive for the Covid-19 Virus. She is a locally recruited member of staff born in Jamaica but a naturalized US citizen, and is presently receiving treatment within the US public health system. The Minister...

The National Health Fund (NHF) is providing increased access to medication supplies as needed, for patients using government hospitals and health centres, while encouraging the use of alternative methods of filling prescriptions in order to cut waiting time in Drug Serv pharmacies. This is in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Jamaica. Mr. Everton Anderson, CEO of NHF says, “We...

The National Health Fund (NHF) has seen a twenty-five per cent increase in the weekly subsidies for NHF Card beneficiaries, moving from an average of $90 million to $115 million. This is occurring as more cardholders are making use of the 90 days’ supply of medication available under the programme, and the relaxation of rules governing the supply of certain...

Prime Minister Holness Announces Stimulus Measures to the Housing Sector and Benefits to NHT Contributors Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced a raft of measures aimed at stimulating the housing sector in the wake of the global pandemic COVID19 which is also affecting Jamaica. The announcements came yesterday (March 19) as the Prime Minister made his contribution to the 2020/2021...

The second cohort of awardees under the Jamaica House Fellowship Programme will be selected and placed within the public sector by May. The initiative, launched by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness in 2016, is geared at recruiting and exposing bright, young talent to public administration, in the hope that they will make public service their first career choice....

The Government of Jamaica has issued a second (community) quarantine order, this time for the Corn Piece settlement in Clarendon. The imposition of the order was announced by Prime Minister Andrew Holness in Parliament on Thursday, March 19. The announcement comes in the wake of the death of a 79-year-old man with a travel history from New York and who...

Jamaica now has sixteen (16) confirmed cases of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The latest case is a 57-year-old male with a travel history to New York. He arrived in the island on March 10 and visited his private physician on March 16. He reported having had symptoms for six days. The necessary contact tracing is now being done. Meanwhile,...