The Bog Walk Gorge in St. Catherine is now reopened to vehicular traffic, following the passage of Tropical Storm Grace which prompted its closure, after the Rio Cobre overflowed its banks. Elsewhere in the parish, as well as in Clarendon, National Works Agency (NWA) teams work to clear other roadways that were made impassable by the storm. Manager of Communication...

The National Works Agency (NWA) is advising that some key intersections in the parishes of Kingston, St. Andrew and St. Catherine are now without the service of traffic signals. Manager, Communication and Customer Services at the NWA, Stephen Shaw says that the traffic light network in these parishes was impacted by the wind and rain associated with the passage of...

The Registrar General’s Department (RGD) partnered with the British High Commission and has signed a Service Level Agreement (SLA). The CEO, Mr. Charlton McFarlane welcomed the representatives Mrs. Lesley Nicol, Immigration Liaison Manager, and Marcus Manning, Immigration Liaison Officer, from the British High Commission, Kingston to the Service Level Agreement signing of the Online Verification Service at the Head Office,...

The National Parenting Support Commission (NPSC) is imploring parents to reach out to the entity for support to improve their parenting skills. “We want parents to get in touch with us,” Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the NPSC, Kaysia Kerr, told JIS News. “We're out in the community; we have a very sophisticated network at this point and we're doing...

Education, Youth and Information Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams, says that the first staging of the National Summer School Programme is going well.  “We are pleased with summer school…our tutors took to it and our students as well and summer school is (doing) what it (is) intended to do, especially with the (face- to-face component), in terms of finding some of...

The first cohort of 23 students who participated in an Events Planning and Management Level 3 Supervisory Course, offered by the HEART/NSTA Trust, have completed their studies. They were presented with skills certificates during their graduation ceremony at the Social Development Commission (SDC) complex in St. Catherine, on July 22. The programme, a partnership between the HEART College of Hospitality...

Executive Director, Social Development Commission (SDC), Dr. Dwayne Vernon (right), presents Stacy Ann Gordon with her diploma in Events Planning and Management, during a graduation ceremony held at the SDC’s St. Catherine Office on July 22.