Twenty-four additional police stations will be outfitted with electronic devices over the coming weeks as the Government builds out the programme to facilitate electronic recording of reports, complaints, and administrative entries by the police. Minister of National Security and Deputy Prime Minister, Hon. Dr Horace Chang, made the disclosure during his contribution to the 2022/23 sectoral debate in the House...

More than 850 closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras have been installed in townships across the island under the ‘JamaicaEye’ programme. These include Kingston, May Pen, Mandeville, Ocho Rios, Negril, Montego Bay, Spanish Town, Santa Cruz, and Black River. This was disclosed by Minister of National Security and Deputy Prime Minister, Hon. Dr Horace Chang, during his contribution to the 2022/23 Sectoral...

The Knockalva Polytechnic College in Ramble, Hanover, now has a computer-equipped learning and resource centre, which was established by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through its Advance Program. The facility, which has 30 workstations, provides a space for students to access learning online, while enabling them to source material and information to assist their career and work-readiness,...

The Legal Aid Council (LAC) is inviting Jamaicans to come out and access its services through Mobile Justice Unit visits across the island, during June. In 2017, the Ministry of Justice, through the LAC, launched the Mobile Justice Unit initiative, which is intended to improve legal representation for vulnerable persons in marginalised and deep rural communities. Executive Director of the...

More than 11,000 undocumented Jamaicans will be provided with their birth certificates free of cost by the Government during this year. This will be facilitated under the $50 million ‘Project BirthRight’ initiative, which will supply the important document to eligible Jamaicans who fall below a certain income threshold. This was announced by Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the...

The Government will be introducing a new bedside registration app next year as a method to immediately capture childbirth information.  This was disclosed by Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, Hon. Floyd Green, during his 2022/23 Sectoral Debate presentation in the House of Representatives on May 24.  He noted that the app is being developed under...

Residents of Olympic Way in the St. Andrew West Central constituency can now log on to the Internet free of cost following the official commissioning of another Universal Service Fund (USF) public Wi-Fi system by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, on Thursday (May 26). The high-speed broadband system, which was provided by the USF at a cost of...