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With the expected increase in the number of visitors to the island during the summer period, including students returning to Jamaica from locations that may be affected by the Influenza A (H1N1) Virus (formerly called Swine Flu), the Ministry of Health is urging members of the public to exercise increased vigilance in protecting themselves from any possible Influenza infection. The...

The National Works Agency (NWA), is advising motorists that the Junction main road, in the vicinity of Friendship Gap, St. Mary, will be closed on Sunday May 24, between the hours of 5:00 am and 12 noon, to facilitate the laying of culvert pipes. Making this disclosure to the JIS during an interview on Friday May 22, Senior Communications Officer...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, and the Director of Tourism, John Lynch, were among 150 new passengers arriving at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay today (May 21) on Jet Blue Airways inaugural flight from New York. Continuing its expansion in the Caribbean, JetBlue Airways today began a daily non-stop service to Sangster International Airport from its home...

Minister with Responsibility for Information and Telecommunications, Hon. Daryl Vaz, has said that the Government will seek to prevent a repeat of the controversial incident in which a private aircraft with several passengers, including former Prime Minister the Most Hon. P.J. Patterson, was searched on arrival from Cuba on Thursday night (May 14). The aircraft landed at the Norman Manley...

The Government has ordered the police to conduct an investigation into the landing of a private aircraft at the Norman Manley International Airport, shortly after 9:00 pm on Thursday, May 15, 2009. The findings of the investigation are to be ready for the Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding, when he returns to the island on Sunday May 17.

The Ministry of Health is advising that arriving passengers from countries, which have reported cases of Influenza A (H1N1) will be provided with health alert cards, interviewed, and samples taken from them if necessary. This is part of the Ministry's heightened surveillance and monitoring system. The MOH is still not recommending travel restrictions and will follow the guidelines of the...

The Transport Authority (TA) has launched an Online Application System, which will allow commercial carriers (vehicles used to transport goods) the convenience of renewing their road licences using the Internet. At the launch at the Knutsford Court Hotel, Kingston, today (May 14), Managing Director of the Transport Authority, Daniel Dawes, said approximately 64 per cent of the Authority's customer base...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Senator the Hon. Don Wehby, has confirmed that two offers have been received for the privatisation of the national airline, Air Jamaica. Speaking at the inaugural Scotia DBG Investments' Corporate Investment Seminar, at the Hilton Kingston Hotel on Tuesday (May 12), Senator Wehby said the offers are currently...

Minister of Tourism Hon. Edmund Bartlett, has lauded the performance of the national carrier, Air Jamaica, against what he said are difficult times for the airline industry and the global economy. In an interview, Mr. Bartlett said that Air Jamaica continues to make steady improvements in its operations, with marked achievements for the month of April 2009. During the period,...

Effective yesterday (May 10), electronic signals were activated at four additional intersections along the Rose Hall main road in St. James. The intersections are at Coral Gardens, Half Moon Resort, Shoppes of Rose Hall, and Spot Valley. According to Community Relations Officer with the National Works Agency's (NWA) Western Region, Janel Ricketts, the agency is seeking to improve the safety...

The Ticky Ticky road in Manchester was opened on Tuesday (May 5) after extensive rehabilitation work at a cost of more than $19 million. Under the project, which was undertaken by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) through funding from the World Bank, some 2.52 kilometres of roadway was asphalted, with concrete cross drains and retaining walls constructed. It will...

Minister of Transport and Works Hon. Michael Henry, has refuted suggestions in foreign news media that the accident in which world sprint champion, Usain Bolt, was injured in April on Highway 2000, was caused by potholes on the surface. The Minister said he was sure, as one who commutes regularly via the toll roads, that there was absolutely no pothole...