The Cabinet is to reconsider the allocation of funding for Public Education and promotion of COVID-19 Vaccines. Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the increased public outcry for the COVID-19 vaccine on the island, has prompted the Government to consider reallocating funds budgeted for the public education and promotion programme on vaccines to other areas of health or to acquire more...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has broken ground for the Andrews Mews Health Centre in Olympic Gardens, St Andrew. The ceremony took place on Friday February 9, the at lot site 155 Olympic Way. The Centre will be fully equipped with amenities for children, a jogging and walking trail, a green space among others. In his keynote address, the Prime Minister...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the Government expects to complete another 114 projects under the National Social Housing Programme for the 2020/2021 financial year. The estimated value of the project is $1.17 billion. Speaking recently (February 11), at the ceremony to hand over a two-bedroom dwelling to a mother of two, Vanesia Reid, in St. Andrew Southern, Prime Minister Holness...

I am saddened to learn of the passing of one of Jamaica’s outstanding judges and former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Paul Harrison. Justice Harrison, who died yesterday, gave distinguished service to Jamaica, in a critical arm of the state, the judiciary, and the legal profession for more than 45 years. He was President of the Court of...

Small business operators are to benefit from a three-day virtual entrepreneurship expo, beginning today (January 19), at 6:00 p.m. via jsifexpo.org. The event is being held in partnership with the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), under its European Union (EU) funded Poverty Reduction Programme (PRP), now in its fourth phase, and the Flow Foundation. Speaking at a Jamaica Information Service...

Leaders of Australia, Canada, Chile, Fiji, Ghana, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Namibia, Norway, Palau and Portugal commit to sustainably manage nearly 30 million sq km of their national waters by 2025 Leaders put a healthy ocean at the top of the global policy agenda to accelerate economic recovery The High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy (Ocean Panel)...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness is calling on countries which traditionally provide aid to other countries, especially Small Island Developing States, not to cut back on their international aid budget. The Prime Minister’s comments come as reports out of the United Kingdom suggests that the European nation is set to cut its international aid budget by a third. He pointed out...