Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, says the relevant agencies are working assiduously to ensure that monies deducted from the salaries of health professionals are paid over to their...

Head of the Convention Secretariat of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), Dr. Haik Nikogosian said although the progress overall with respect to implementing the FCTC...

The Government has completed legal arrangements and is now ready to Gazette the amended Public Health (Tobacco Control) Regulations 2013, which was effected on July 5, 2013. “Shortly, the amendments...

Minister of Health, the Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, is cautioning Jamaicans not to allow the comfort and convenience of modern technology, to prevent them from doing physical activity. In his...

Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), Dr. Haik Nikogosian, says broad Government input is necessary to ensure Jamaica’s full implementation of the FCTC’s...

Executive Director of the National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA), Michael Tucker says the agency will make efforts to restrict the availability and access to drugs in, and around school...

Jamaica is taking the lead internationally in terms of the size of the graphic health warnings on (cigarette) packages. This was disclosed by Head of the Convention Secretariat of the...

Member of Parliament for North West St. Ann, Dr. Dayton Campbell is urging the Government to repeal the provisions concerning abortion under the Offences Against the Persons Act. Dr. Campbell...