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The St. Catherine Infirmary is to be given a facelift on March 21, when members of the St. Catherine Parish Council's 'Junior Council' will volunteer their services to paint all sanitary conveniences at the facility. Director of Administration at the St. Catherine Parish Council, Shirlene Greenland, told JIS News that the idea for the project came about, following a tour...

The benefit of embracing healthy lifestyle was the focus of a community meeting sponsored by the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) (Port Antonio Office) in collaboration with the Portland HeaLth Department, in Boston, Portland on Thursday (March 12). The meeting focused on the HIV/AIDS pandemic, bad eating habits and the lack of exercise, three of the major factors posing health risks...

Finance and Public Service Minister, Audley Shaw, has said that efforts were being made to enhance provisions in the 2009/10 Budget to procure pharmaceuticals for dispensing in public health facilities. This move, he said, comes against the background of reports and discussions with stakeholders in the health sector, including Health and Environment Minister, Rudyard Spencer, which indicate a significant increase...

President of the Jamaica Bible College, Reverend Dr. Roy Notice, has called on the church to make service to others its main plank, in carrying out its mission. Dr. Notice, who spoke at a prayer breakfast, put on by Swaby's Hope New Testament Church of God, at the Tropics View Hotel, in Mandeville, Manchester, on March 14, stressed that a...

The Caribbean HIV/AIDS Alliance (CHAA) was officially launched, at the Holiday Inn Sunspree resort, Montego Bay, on Wednesday (March 11), under the theme "Serving communities and vulnerable populations throughout the Caribbean region". Some 30 member countries pledged to step up the relentless struggle to reduce the prevalence and serious effects of HIV/ AIDS in the Caribbean region. The newly established...

The Rotary Club of Christiana has honoured the "Flying Dentists," a group of American dentists who have been coming to Jamaica since 1978 to provide self help and dental care. Each year the dentists visit Jamaica and stay at the residences of Rotarians in areas that they served, including Warsop, Albert Town and Stettin in Trelawny; Spalding, Clarendon; Baron Hall,...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw, has expressed gratitude to the American Flying Dentists, for more than 30 years of invaluable service to communities in and around Manchester. Speaking at a function put on by the Rotary Club of Cristiana at the Mandeville Hotel in Manchester, on March 4, to honour the group, the North Eastern Manchester...

The American Friends of Jamaica (AFJ), will hold its 5th annual fundraising ball in Florida, in the United States of America (USA),on May 16, with the proceeds to go towards education, health care and human development programmes in the island. Philanthropist and businesswoman Michele Rollins, will be the special honouree at the event, which will be held at the Ritz-Carlton...

Minister of Health and Environment, Rudyard Spencer, has said that despite the significant progress being made by the Ministry in improving health services, the sector remained challenged by the scourge of violence in society. The Minister made this declaration in a speech, read by Chief Medical Officer of Health in the Ministry, Dr. Sheila Campbell-Forrester , at the 'Peace for...

The Solicitor General has recommended that the Public Service Commission(PSC) determine whether there has been any breach of Staff Order regulations, arising from investigations into the operations of the National Chest Hospital(NCH) in Kingston. This was revealed by Minister of Health and Environment, Rudyard Spencer, at a press briefing at his ministry, King Street, downtown Kingston, today. Mr. Spencer said...

Minister of Health and Environment, Rudyard Spencer, on Tuesday (March 3) defended the Government's decision to abolish user fees across the health sector, noting that the user fee structure was "regressive" and a "major impediment" to some persons, particularly the poor, accessing health care. "The Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions 2007 shows that 50.8 per cent of the poorest quintile,...

Scores of young people in Port Maria, St. Mary, participated in a clean up exercise of the Pagee Beach in that town on Saturday, February 28. The clean-up, which commenced at 8:00 a.m. was spearheaded by the Pagee Youth Organisation for Sustainable Development, in conjunction with Food for the Poor, Fishing Village-Pagee, and Friends of Pagee. The project was conducted...