Jamaica will be relying heavily on the local branches of international charity organisations, such as the Red Cross and the Salvation Army, to help in co-ordinating its aid efforts to...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. Dr. Kenneth Baugh in a letter to his Haitian counterpart, Her Excellency Marie-Michele Rey today (Wednesday Jan 13),...

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) is advising that given our limited storage capacity and other resource constraints we can only accept cash donations to assist with...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding, will lead a delegation, which will include the Leader of the Opposition the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, to Haiti today (Jan. 14). The...

Former Prime Ministers, the Most Hon. PJ Patterson and the Most Hon. Edward Seaga have offered their assistance to the Government in response to the Haitian earthquake. In a letter...

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) will dispatch the first batch of supplies and personnel to Haiti tonight (January 13) as Jamaica begins support for the earthquake...

A literary and pictorial exhibition on earthquakes in Jamaica opened yesterday (Jan. 12) at the Hanover Parish Library in Lucea. Included are books and posters, which explain how an earthquake...

The Jamaica Defence Force will within the next 24 hours deploy a County Class Vessel with a Company Group of soldiers comprising one hundred and fifty (150) medical, engineering, infantry...

The Government of Jamaica has responded quickly to the earthquake disaster in Caribbean neighbour Haiti and is mobilising relief supplies to send to that country. Contributions from the private sector...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding, will outline details of the Government's debt management programme in an address to the nation tonight (Jan. 13). The nationwide broadcast will be aired...

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) reported Tuesday night (January 12), that it had been advised by the Earthquake Unit that a felt earthquake of magnitude M7.0...