With road fatalities exceeding 400 so far this year, Education/Information Officer, Road Safety Unit, Cameal Brooks, is calling on Jamaicans to adhere to the road safety rules to protect themselves and other road users. In an interview with JIS News, Ms. Brooks reminds Jamaicans that the safety messages have been implemented to save the lives of motorists and pedestrians alike....

Tourism workers who have benefitted from the free online courses offered by the Jamaica Centre of Tourism Innovation (JCTI), are issuing high praises. The free online training initiative was launched on April 22 as part of the Government’s thrust to ensure the continued development of employees in the sector, who were laid off as a result of the closure of...

Motorcyclists in Westmoreland who participated in the National Road Safety Council’s Motorcycle Outreach and Training Programme, which concluded on August 16, are lauding the initiative as helpful and life-saving. Training sessions for the programme were held on Sunday, August 9 and Sunday, August 16. The programme, which was held at the Petersfield Vocational Training Centre in the parish, had some...

When Claudia Grant began her career at the Port of Kingston in 1986 armed with a first degree and an eagerness to learn, little did she know that this would be her foray into a lifetime of service to the maritime industry. Thirty-four years later, she is second in command at the Maritime Authority of Jamaica (MAJ), serving as Deputy...

A new online application software is making it easier for truckers and others using the Kingston ports to do business. The Truck Appointment System (TAS) has been implemented to manage the flow of cargo and trucking companies doing business at the two terminals, the Kingston Freeport Terminal Limited and Kingston Wharves Limited. Director of Port Community System (PCS), implemented under...

The American Caribbean Maritime Foundation (ACMF) is supporting the growth of the region’s maritime industry through donation of funds for infrastructure development and the education and training of students at the Palisados Park-based Caribbean Maritime University (CMU). “We have committed over $30 million (US$220,000) in scholarships and building funds and have 13 scholarship recipients to date from Jamaica, The Bahamas,...

Port State Control will have an important role to play in ensuring compliance by ships to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) regulations for the 2020 Global Sulphur Limit, which came into effect on January 1. Under the new regulations, the IMO has set a limit of 0.5 per cent for sulphur in fuel used on board ships, down from 3.5...

Maleek Powell, who lost his sister in a horrific car crash last month, is on a mission to promote road safety. He is looking to start an advocacy group, which will support the Government’s continued drive to foster an orderly and disciplined traffic culture among Jamaicans. Mr. Powell tells JIS News that he has always been concerned about road safety,...

The Government will be tapping into the local pool of architectural talent to design the layout for the US$2.5-billion Vernamfield Development project. Dubbed ‘Aerotropolis Jamaica’, the project is intended to transform the Vernamfield property in Clarendon, which was previously an army base, into an aerodrome to provide international air cargo and logistics; aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services; and...