The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, says the Ministry’s ECCI Covid-19 Grants programme has been oversubscribed and has stopped taking new applications. “We anticipated about one thousand applications for the individual grants of $60,000 each to members of the Entertainment, Culture and Creative Industries.  We’ve had a very good response in a very short time...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness anticipates that training in the use of the genome sequencing machine for the testing of coronavirus (COVID-19) variants will begin shortly. Speaking at a recent press conference, Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, said that training was expected to begin on January 10 but has been pushed back. “We are hopeful that it...

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director, Dr. Carissa Etienne, says vaccination is “especially important” in countering the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as the strain “takes hold” in the region. Speaking during PAHO’s weekly digital COVID-19 media briefing on Wednesday (January 12), Dr. Etienne said while the Delta variant still sparks new infections in the Americas, based on...

Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, is advising the public to remain at home and monitor themselves if they develop mild flu-like symptoms. “If symptoms worsen or persist beyond three days or you have chronic illnesses, then you should seek medical advice. This can be from your private practitioner, from the health centre or from the parish health department,”...

The Ministry of Health & Wellness wishes to remind members of the public that if they develop mild flu-like symptoms they are to remain at home and monitor themselves, while observing the infection prevention and control measures. If symptoms worsen or persist beyond three days, then medical advice should be sought from a private doctor, a health centre or the...

Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams, says to date a total of 954 of 983 primary and high schools have been approved as COVID-19-compliant by the Ministry of Health and Wellness. “This means there has been a physical reinspection of our schools for COVID and non-COVID issues,” Mrs. Williams said, during the sitting of the House of Representatives...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the current coronavirus (COVID-19) containment measures have been extended for a further two weeks until January 27, 2022. Mr. Holness made the announcement during the sitting of the House of Representatives on January 11. “This means that the curfew hours will remain from 10:00 p.m. nightly to 5:00 a.m. the following morning,...