Efforts are continuing at the Riverton City disposal site to extinguish remaining hotspots. The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) continues to mobilize the necessary resources to ensure that  on-the-ground operations are sustained into tonight and tomorrow morning. The National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) remains active and urges that members of the public continue to observe safety tips...

The Ministry of Education is advising schools that were closed last Friday as a result of the smog emanating from the Riverton City disposal site to remain closed on Monday, March 16, 2015. This is to facilitate the clean-up of some schools and to determine their readiness for resumption, particularly those that are located within the immediate vicinity of the...

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) is reporting significant containment of the fire at the Riverton City Disposal Site, in St. Andrew. Director General, Major Clive Davis, who provided an update during a media briefing at ODPEM’s head office in Kingston, on Sunday (March 15), said significant resources, including heavy equipment, have been deployed to boost the...

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) continues to advise persons to exercise care as the Kingston Metropolitan Region experiences smoke condition, resulting from the Riverton City Fire. The Agency will continue to mobilize resources as part of the response operation Agency Updates Health o The team from the Ministry of Health continues to monitor activities across the...

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has instructed that the Minister of State in the Ministry of the Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Colin Fagan immediately provide Ministerial coordination for the multi-agency effort now underway to control and extinguish the fire at the Riverton City landfill in the Corporate Area which has blanketed the city with smoke, and to provide...

The playfield at the St. Catherine-based Bog Walk High School is to be upgraded at a cost of over $10 million. Minister with responsibility for Sport, Hon. Natalie Neita Headley, broke ground for the project on Wednesday, March 11, which is being undertaken by the Sports Development Foundation (SDF). She said the works also involve putting a proper irrigation system...

The Office of Utilities Regulation’s (OUR) Parish Connections, a year-long series of consultations aimed at boosting its consumer outreach effort, is receiving the full support of the island’s major utility providers. At the launch held recently at the Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston, representatives of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), National Water Commission (NWC), Digicel, LIME and Flow,...