With tourism workers reportedly flocking to vaccination sites in resort towns across the island, two south-coast entities are being praised for having 100 per cent of their staff fully vaccinated. Jakes Hotel and Jack Sprat Restaurant and Bar, both in Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth, now have the unique distinction on achieving 100 per cent staff take-up of the COVID-19 vaccine....

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the Government is moving to make travel with Jamaica’s vaccination card more seamless by establishing a system for verifying the validity of the vaccination status of Jamaicans. The Prime Minister’s announcement comes following concerns being raised after it emerged that the United Kingdom’s Government does not recognise the vaccination status of Jamaicans...

  NEW CASES 24 HRS OVERALL Confirmed Cases 434 81,828 SEX CLASSIFICATION     Females 253 46,560 Males 181 35,262 Under Investigation 0 6 AGE RANGE 5 months to 97 years 1 day to 108 years         PARISH CLASSIFICATION OF NEW CASES     Clarendon 25 4,314 Hanover 15 2,690 Kingston & St. Andrew 95 20,301 Manchester...

Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says vaccine hesitancy must go for growth to take place. The Minister was speaking at a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) ‘Think Tank’ at the agency’s head office in Kingston on Tuesday (September 21), where he encouraged tourism workers to get vaccinated. “There has been a lot of hesitancy and I want to make the point...

Jamaica has endorsed the Strategy for Building Resilient Health Systems and Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery to Sustain and Protect Public Health Gains, advanced at the 59th PAHO Directing Council meeting now underway in Washington DC.   The strategy prescribes, among other things, prioritisation of primary health care, increased and sustained public financing in health and social protection, together with strengthened health...

President of the Pan American Health Organization’s 59th Directing Council, Jamaica's Health Minister, Dr. Christopher Tufton, has lamented the devastating impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Addressing the opening of the 73rd Session of the Regional Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) of the Americas, at PAHO’s headquarters in Washington...

State Minister in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Hon. Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn, says Jamaica has initiated several programmes to ensure that persons living with HIV (AIDS) are cared for. Delivering the opening remarks at the Treatment, Care and Support Annual Programme held virtually on Monday (September 20), under the theme “Retention for Optimisation”,  the State Minister said efforts are continuing...