Jamaica is supporting proposed revisions to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code, slated to become effective in January 2015. The new anti-doping rules aim to strengthen the capacity of WADA and various anti-doping organizations globally to preserve integrity in sport and protect athletes not resorting to using illicit substances, such stimulants and masking agents, in or out of competition. Minister...

Minister with Responsibility for Information, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer, returned to her alma mater of Hampton School on November 21, to speak to the all-girls student body about the value of hard work in achieving lasting success. “I don’t want you to be gullible, or to think that success is something that you can wish. Success takes hard work....

Approximately 4,500 residents of Rose Town, an inner-city Kingston community, are celebrating the completion of a US$2 million infrastructure development project that will see them benefitting from improved water supply, road and sewerage facility. Funding for the project was provided by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, through a grant from Kuwait. The project was undertaken over the last...

The Office of the Prime Minister, OPM, wishes to clarify media reports of an incident today in Rose Town which involved contact between a journalist and the Prime Minister’s Close Protection Officers. At the end of a function at which the Prime Minister launched infrastructural works in the community of Rose Town, a journalist sought to engage in an impromptu...

Pre-eminent journalist, Ian Boyne, is on an ardent path to cementing his legacy of scholarly work, not only through the newspaper in their original form, but in the pages of his latest publication, 'Ideas Matter: Journey Into the Mind of a Veteran Journalist’. On Tuesday, November 19, King’s House was a befitting backdrop for the launch of this compilation of...

As the Government intensifies measures to improve energy efficiency in the public sector, Cabinet has approved a contract for air conditioning systems for four state entities. This involves the design, supply and retrofitting of efficient air conditioning solutions for the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), Kingston Public Hospital, the Donald Sangster Building at the Sangster International Airport, and the Montego Bay...

Prime Minister and Minister of Sport, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller says Jamaica is ecstatic at the historic double victory by sprinters Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce who have captured the IAAF World Athletes of the Year. Jamaica becomes the first country in the region and the third in the world to have captured this top IAAF accolade. Bolt...