In a few weeks, the now seemingly dormant Montego Bay Sports Complex located in Catherine Hall, will come alive as services of the Catherine Hall Health Centre will be temporarily relocated to the sporting facility to accommodate infrastructural works at the clinic. The decision was taken by the St James Municipal Corporation which manages the Stadium after a request was...

Executive Director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), Audley Gordon, says the agency is ready to proceed with work on the proposed waste disposal site at Winchester in St. Thomas. This, he informed, will replace the existing facility at Church Corner in the parish capital, Morant Bay. Mr. Gordon told JIS News that preliminary activities, including acquisition of...

The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development is conducting an audit of minor water supplies islandwide, in furtherance of improvement measures outlined in the National Water Sector Policy and Implementation Plan 2019. Two of the measures regard rehabilitation and maintenance of community catchment tanks, and strengthening the capacity of households and entities to utilise rainfall harvesting to augment water...

Kingston Mayor, Senator Councillor Delroy Williams, says several potential alternative routes are being explored to restore access to communities along Gordon Town Road in St. Andrew, where many residents have been marooned as a result of landslides on that stretch. Sections of the road have also been severely damaged, consequent on recent rains, rendering the corridor impassable. Senator Williams said...

Several communities in rural St Andrew and eastern parishes remain marooned, following recent heavy rains across the island. Executive Director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority, Mr. Audley Gordon, is encouraging residents in these communities to bury their garbage until the communities are accessible. “About 60% of our waste is organic in nature and residents can bury these by...

The Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) is looking at possible alternative routes to restore access to communities cut off by at least one major landslide along the Gordon Town Road in East Rural St. Andrew. Sections of the road have been severely damaged and made impassable following recent heavy rains. Mayor of Kingston, Senator Councillor Delroy Williams, made...

A Special Select Committee of Parliament has been established to deliberate on a motion to make the Portmore City Municipality Jamaica’s 15th parish. The committee will be chaired by St. Catherine South Central Member of Parliament, Dr. Andrew Wheatley. This was disclosed by Local Government and Rural Development Minister, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, as he tabled the motion during the sitting...