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The Registrar General's Department (RGD) is reporting a huge success from its recent Overseas Outreach Programme in North America, having successfully processed 204 of approximately 238 applications from the Jamaican Diaspora. The two-week mission conducted from July 12 to 24, was a vast improvement from last year's programme, which received fewer than 100 applications. This year's outreach also saw the...

Chairman of the Health Committee for the Cultural, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund, Dr. Aggrey Irons says Jamaica needs to seek out research based intervention methods to both prevent and curtail the high level of violence plaguing the country. Addressing the weekly JIS Think Tank, the Chairman said that violence impacted on health, development, investment, and educational standards....