The Government is pursuing private sector partnership to construct a new public morgue in Kingston, Minister of National Security, Senator the Hon. Dwight Nelson, disclosed on Friday (January 22). Speaking...

Britain's new High Commissioner to Jamaica, His Excellency Howard Drake has praised Jamaica for its quick and positive response to the Haitian earthquake crisis. During his courtesy call on Prime...

The Registrar General's Department (RGD), is slated to roll out its new state of the art Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) telephone system at its head office, Twickenham Park, St....

President of the Caribbean Graduate School of Theology, Dr. Lascelles G. Newman, says if the country is to experience a turn around it is critical for all Jamaicans to stop...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding says his office had no knowledge that the National Workers Union (NWU) should have been a part of the delegation representing the Jamaica Airline...

Chairman of the Consultative Monitoring Group (CMG) at the Public Sector Transformation Unit (PSTU), Peter Moses, has said that Ministers and state agencies must take ownership of the transformation programme...

Jamaica shares the same fault line (a crack or break in the earth's surface) with Haiti, which suffered a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake on January 11. This was disclosed by...

As the world witnesses the earthquake horror in Haiti, the problem of informal settlements in Jamaica, has again come to the fore. Addressing a JIS Think Tank this morning (January...

Executive Director of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), Ronald Jackson is appealing to all Jamaicans to seek information on what to do in an earthquake, from...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force and the Ministry of National Security are currently mapping out an operational plan to deal with a possible influx of Haitians to the island, in the...

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) is partnering with Well Heeled Jamaicans, a local charitable organisation, to undertake a shoe collection drive this weekend as part of...