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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...

Minister with responsibility for Education, Karl Samuda says 13 institutions will require expansion, and 17 new schools must be built in order to remove the shift system and tackle overcrowding.

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the new Housing component of the Housing Opportunity Production and Employment (HOPE) Programme will see to the provision of homes for vulnerable persons in selected communities.

The Government has recorded significant progress under the Programme for the Reduction of Maternal and Child Mortality (PROMAC), since its launch in 2013. PROMAC, which is funded by the European Union (EU) aims to reduce the level of pregnancy-related mortality and morbidity in Jamaica. Under the programme, the Government is to establish nine High Dependency Units (HDUs) for the intensive care of...

The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries is to spend 15 million dollars, through the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), to assist farmers affected by the ongoing drought conditions. It’s estimated that some 5,600 farmers have been affected so far, with losses of some 500 hectares. The crops mostly affected include vegetables, condiments, fruits, cereal roots and tubers. Additionally, 99 farmers...

Prime Minister attends National Emancipation and Independence Thanksgiving Service as well as Armed Forces Day Parade. He also calls on Jamaicans to unite “under God as one Nation, One People”.

Mayor of Montego Bay, Homer Davis, says the law and order initiative - Operation Restore Paradise, which started on May 20, has been largely successful. Mayor Davis says the mission going forward is to ensure sustainability of the gains made under the initiative.