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Minister of Health, John Junor has said that the management of pesticides requires a collective regional approach, in order to reduce the impact of residual pesticides activity on Caribbean states. Precautionary and preventative measures, he further stressed, should be employed to protect the region from the dangers of pesticides use. The Caribbean, he added, could ill-afford to ignore the problem,...

The National HIV/STI Control Programme in the Ministry of Health, has launched an HIV/AIDS Prevention website, which is geared at providing young people with information about the diseases and other Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs). Behavior Change Communication Officer at the Ministry, Novia Condell, who launched the website at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston, said that the Internet was another...

The 50th biannual seminar of the Nurse Practitioners, will be held on July 7 - 9, at the Renaissance Jamaica Grande Hotel, in Ocho Rios, St. Ann, under the theme, "Lifestyle Diseases Prevention and Control: A Shifting Paradigm". Chairman of the planning committee, Isolyn Bell-Rose, told JIS News that the rationale for the seminar was to provide a forum for...

Beginning today (July 1) until August 28, members of the public will be able to access free diabetes screening test at all 26 branches of Courts Jamaica Limited across the island. In an interview with JIS News, Owen Bernard, Executive Director of the Diabetes Association of Jamaica Outreach Programme said that due to the high incidents of diabetes in Jamaica,...

A two-day conference to highlight the achievements of Jamaica's Adolescent Reproductive Health Project (Youth.now), in positively reforming the sexual behaviors of teens, is now underway at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston. The project, which was funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by Futures Groups International through the Ministry of Health, has come...

From July 12 to 24 the Registrar General's Department (RGD) will conduct several outreach meetings targeting Jamaican nationals living in major North American cities. Initially, a six-city tour, covering Miami, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and New York City in the United States and Toronto and Montreal in Canada, the agency has extended the number of outreach meetings to include areas such...

The Accident and Emergency Department of the Black River Hospital in St. Elizabeth is to be renovated at a cost of $29,989,202. Cabinet has approved award of the contract to W.G. Walters Construction Company Limited to undertake the work. Minister of Information, Senator Burchell Whiteman made the disclosure at the weekly post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House on Tuesday (June...

Minister of Health John Junor has revealed that more than 50 per cent of deaths among the Jamaican population was attributable to chronic non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, obesity and cancer. "The fact is that we are now looking at somewhere in the region of about 200,000 hospital days being spent by persons suffering from chronic diseases....

The Pesticides Control Authority (PCA) has reported that a wider range of chemical residue has been found on imported vegetables, as compared with local vegetables. News of the findings has come from Hyacinth Chin-Sue, Registrar at the PCA, who said that over the past two years, the PCA has been visiting supermarkets to obtain samples of both imported and local...

The South Eastern Regional Office of the Registrar General's Department (RGD) has outgrown its current location on Half-Way-Tree Road and will be relocating to 4 Trevennion Park Road, as of July 5. Bryan Aikman, Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Director of Operations at the RGD, told JIS News that the move was a part of the Agency's continued effort to...

The Government is moving to amend the Road Traffic Act Regulations to allow for persons who are hearing impaired to apply for a driver's licence. Minister of Labour and Social Security, Horace Dalley made the announcement at the opening ceremony of the Caribbean Ministerial Conference on Disability on Wednesday (May 12) at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston. "The issue...

The Jamaican Consulate in New York, in collaboration with the American Cancer Society, will host a health fair for Jamaican women in the tri-state area on Sunday, May 16, at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan. The event spearheaded by the Community Relations Office will run from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and is expected to serve close to...