The Government’s Ebola and Chikungunya public education campaign is expected to be significantly boosted by a commitment of support from the Advertising Agencies Association of Jamaica (AAAJ). The organization’s President, Arnold Foote, Jr., has pledged to lobby members’ and clients’ support for the undertaking. Their input will include the establishment of a National Communications Task Force to formulate a plan...

There is no truth to rumors being circulated of a case of Ebola in Jamaica. In a statement a short while ago, Information Minister Senator Sandrea Falconer, who also chairs the National Response Monitoring Committee, said there is no case of anyone with the Ebola virus on the island. All precautionary and preparatory steps to prevent the Ebola virus reaching...

Chairperson of the Team which is monitoring the national health emergency vector control clean-up campaign, Minister of Information, Senator Sandrea Falconer has said that contrary to some media reports, there is no allocation of funds according to Parish Council Divisions. As such, there is no allocation to individual Councillors. She has reiterated that $70 million is available to fund cleanup...

As Jamaica joins the global community in observing ‘International Day of the Girl Child’ on October 11, Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer, is calling on citizens to help break the cycle of violence against women and girls. “Let this International Day of the Girl Child, with its focus on violence against girls, be an opportunity to step up collective action to...

The Jamaica Information Service (JIS), on Thursday, October 9, handed over several packages of heritage material to the Hillsbrook All-age and Pell River Primary schools in rural Hanover. The items were presented during visits to the schools by a JIS team, headed by Special Projects Officer, Christine Ade-Gold, as part of Heritage Month celebrations. During the visits, the JIS staff...

Students and teachers from three schools in Westmoreland were delighted by and appreciative of the Jamaica Information Service’s (JIS) recent visit to their institutions, as part of the agency’s Heritage Week schools visit. The institutions visited were: Holly Hill Primary and Infant School in Darliston; Unity Primary School, Savanna-la-Mar; and Grange Hill High School, Grange Hill. The JIS team, led...

Jamaica’s National Emergency Response Team has been activated to coordinate and support the country’s response to the current outbreak of the Chikungunya virus. At the same time the government has allocated an additional $150 million to the Chikungunya response, which includes a massive clean-up campaign aimed at destroying and removing mosquito breeding sites. The information came out of a technical...