The Ministry of Local Government and Community Development is seeking to establish emergency shelters deemed more ideally suited to provide temporary accommodation for persons who have to be evacuated from...

The Government is committed to ensuring that the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) is adequately resourced and supported to carry out its functions. Local Government and Community...

Scores of residents of Bog Walk and surrounding communities in St. Catherine recently benefitted from a health and information fair hosted by the True United Sisters (TUS) community development organisation....

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the newly installed Government has as its priority, the growth of the economy, creation of jobs and reduction of public debt. He...

The Hanbury Children’s Home in Manchester has emerged the winner of the Child Development Agency’s (CDA) ‘Safe Homes Disaster Readiness Competition’. Held under the theme: ‘Emergency Preparedness...Our Priority’, the competition...

President of the St. Catherine Chamber of Commerce, Dennis Robotham, says the effort to make Spanish Town a heritage tourism centre has been going well, boosted by the  significant drop...

The   Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has won the general election, which was held on February 25. Preliminary results show that the JLP, led by Mr. Andrew Holness, has won 33...

Scores of citizens from Hanover turned out in the Blenheim community on  February 24 to commemorate the 132nd anniversary of the birth of National Hero, the Rt. Excellent Sir Alexander Bustamante....