The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) has launched a Jingle Competition aimed at raising awareness about the entity’s existing Guaranteed Standards. These are quality of service standards to which utility companies are held accountable. Deputy Director General at the OUR, Cheryl Lewis, said the competition, dubbed the GS Jingle Competition, forms part of the entity’s mandate of protecting consumers. “The...

Twenty-year-year-old Iyesha Garwood of Deanery Road, Vineyard Town, Kingston 3 has been missing since Saturday, November 14. She is of brown complexion, medium build and about 172centimetres (5 feet 8 inches) tall. Reports from the Vineyard Town Police are that about 9:00 a.m., Garwood was last seen at home. Her mode of dress at the time she went missing is...

Scores of residents in Westmoreland benefited from a virtual parenting seminar hosted by the Kiwanis Club of Westmoreland Capital on November 12. The event, which was held under the theme ‘Coping Skills for Children and Parents during the COVID-19 Pandemic’, formed part of activities marking November as Parent Month. The forum facilitated stakeholder discussions and sharing of parenting best practices,...

A certificate is an official government-issued record of a person's birth, death, adoption or marriage printed on security paper and includes deeply engraved ‘blind’ embossing, Watermark, and engraved texts. The certificates were introduced by the Registrar General’s Department (RGD) on May 7, 2001 to eradicate fraudulently produced certificates. These fraudulent produced certificates are often used to obtain genuine documents needed...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says he has been closely tracking the situation of children being out of school due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. He noted that the absence of in-person learning has had a “terrible impact on our learning as a nation. Our children have truly been deprived and are, indeed, I would say, way behind...

State Minister for Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Robert Nesta Morgan, says that the country’s youth must be at the centre of the conversation about development in Jamaica. “Historically, it was the youth who inspired and executed the greatest change in societies. It is the youth, who will either benefit or pay the price for any decisions we make now,”...

The Ministry of Finance and the Public Service on Wednesday (November 4) launched the Jamaica InvestmentMap, a digital platform that will facilitate interactive public access to information on investment projects being implemented by the Government. These include the construction of roads, bridges and schools, government reform, and climate resilient projects, the progress of which individuals and entities will be able...