A series of community interventions will be undertaken to identify persons who qualify for free birth certificates under Operation Birthright. Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, Hon. Floyd Green, says teams from the National Identification System (NIDS) Project and the Registrar General’s Department (RGD) will go into areas across the island, to sign-up persons who fit...

The recently held Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, provided an opportunity for important bilateral talks between Jamaica and several other countries. Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) with Responsibility for Information, Hon. Robert Morgan, said that Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator...

The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) has advised that no celebratory activities or events should be held from September 8 to 19, which is the Period of Mourning for Her Majesty, The Queen, who demised on Thursday (September 8). “On the Day of Mourning, the public should note that only authorised activities related to the Day are approved and...

The Cabinet today received a preliminary briefing from Sugar Company of Jamaica Holdings Limited (SCJ) and the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), on media reports that agricultural lands in Innswood, St Catherine will be used for housing development. While the Cabinet will get further briefings, the following facts have been established: Model Agricultural Production Limited, which is a company...

The Government is actively working on short-term, medium-term and long-term solutions to the issue of flooding in the town of Lucea in Hanover. Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister (West), Hon. Homer Davis, made the disclosure following a tour of the flood-prone areas in the below-sea-level town on Wednesday (August 17). He told JIS News that...

To support its digitisation process, the Registrar General’s Department (RGD) is looking to reintroduce islandwide delivery, which would make it easier for customers to access its services seamlessly, from start to finish. The entity recently rolled out three new online products - an online application facility for adoption certificates, a real-time search engine for entry numbers (which are needed to...

The rollout of three new online products is expected to enhance the customer service experience at the Registrar General’s Department (RGD) as the entity continues its digitisation process. In an official launch event on Wednesday (August 17), the services were revealed to be an online application facility for adoption certificates, a real-time search engine for entry numbers and an online...