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Regional Priority Non-Communicable Diseases/Family Health Coordinator at Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), Dr. Marcia Johnson Campbell, addresses a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Tank, held at the agency’s Montego Bay Regional Office, on Monday, July 14.
Regional Priority Non-Communicable Diseases/Family Health Coordinator at Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), Dr. Marcia Johnson Campbell, addresses a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Tank, held at the agency’s Montego Bay Regional Office, on Monday, July 14.

Healthcare Professionals Encouraged to Take Greater Responsibility for Their Well-Being

By: Okoye Henry, July 17, 2025
The Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) is calling on healthcare professionals to take greater responsibility for their own health and well-being. Regional Priority Non-Communicable Diseases/Family Health Coordinator at WRHA, Dr....
Senior Director of Surveys and Mapping at the National Land Agency (NLA), Wayneworth Hamilton, explains the importance of boundary surveys in the land-titling process, during a recent JIS ‘Get the Facts’ interview.

Jamaicans Must Understand the Importance of Boundary or Cadastral Surveys – NLA

By: Sherika Williams, July 17, 2025
Postmaster-General, Lincoln Allen (second right); Deputy Postmaster General, Business and Regional Operations, Sophia Hamilton-Brown, and Deputy Postmaster General, Corporate Base Operations, Carey Brown (second left), engage in discussion with Caribbean Postal Union Secretary General, Samuel Brangman. The interaction took place during the opening ceremony for the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Postal Leaders Forum at the ROK Hotel in downtown Kingston on Tuesday (July 15).

Jamaica Hosts Global Small Island Developing States Postal Leaders Forum

By: Donique Weston, July 17, 2025

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Minister of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Senator Dr. the Hon. Dana Morris Dixon (right), presents a special gift basket to student of Barking Lodge Primary and Infant School in St. Thomas, Cordelia Nicholson, who achieved 100 per cent in Language Arts in the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) exam, at a Back-to-School Conference for Principals and Vice-principals from Region 2 (Portland, St. Thomas and St. Mary), held at Hideaway at Royalton Blue Water in Falmouth, Trelawny, on Tuesday, July 15). Sharing the moment (from left) are Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Dr. Kasan Troupe; Principal of Barking Lodge Primary and Infant School, Tannia Johnson; and Language Arts teacher of Barking Lodge Primary and Infant School, Tracia Ann Hunt-Sylva.
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Fewer Testing Days for PEP Students

Beginning in 2026, grade-six students taking the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) exams will face fewer testing days with Mathematics and Language Arts assessments, as they will be condensed into single-day...
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By: Okoye Henry, July 16, 2025