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Petroleum Act being modernized; Health and Wellness Foundation targets increased charitable donations; and Jamaica Police Federation receives 8 new buses.

The 8th Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference Day of Service saw the roll out of some 42 projects. While the activity has been dubbed a ‘Day of Service’ by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, many of the projects carried out were far from one off occasions. One such project was a basketball clinic held at the Excelsior Community College...

Jamaica welcomes President of Kenya for state visit; Fire Brigade to establish Bush Fire Warning Index; and children benefit from heart treatment procedures.

HOPE Programme to cater to vulnerable citizens; Chinese Benevolent Association donates supplies Kingston Public Hospital; and Education Ministry providing textbooks to support National Standards Curriculum.

The Foreign Exchange Global Code developed by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) has been formally adopted in the Jamaican market. The Code’s adoption is one of several foreign exchange market reforms initiated by the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) in 2017. The Foreign Exchange Global Code provides a common set of guidelines for all authorised foreign exchange trading entities for promoting the...

For the month of July, the National Task Force Against Trafficking in Persons undertook several activities to raise public awareness about the heinous crime of human trafficking, which mainly affects the country’s most vulnerable citizens. Manager at the Trafficking in Persons Secretariat in the Ministry of Justice, Chenee Russell, sat with JIS Studio 58A host Vaughn Davis recently to outline some...

More than 100 persons from vulnerable communities in Kingston, St. Andrew, St. Catherine, Clarendon, St. Ann, St. Mary, Westmoreland and St. James have successfully completed substance misuse treatment with support from the Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP). They were assisted by counsellors, community case management officers, social workers and psychologists to overcome their substance misuse and were recently recognized at...