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Prime Minister Andrew Holness will participate in several high level gatherings this week, during the 74th United Nations General Assembly being held in New York.

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has put forward plans to protect Jamaica’s marine economy that will come on stream in 2020. These include a project to replant over 2,000 hectares of mangrove and swamp forest as well as increasing the number of marine areas protected under the law.

Approximately 200 men benefited from free prostate cancer screening and other medical checks during a recent health fair at Independence Park, Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland. The free health fair and prostate cancer outreach was hosted by the Westmoreland Health Department in partnership with the Misty Blue Cancer Foundation, as part of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month activities. Prostate cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related...

Farmers, the ministry of agriculture is encouraging you to plant more breadfruit trees. This in order to help the country capitalize on the growing gluten free value added market as well as increase exports of the crop. We tell you more on today’s edition of calling farmers.

Government proposes key measures to protect marine environment; 120 teachers to be trained to diagnose and correct language based learning disabilities in students and farmers being encouraged to plant more breadfruit trees.

Prime Minister in New York for UN General Assembly, Police get 80 new bikes and improved access to medical services for Rock River and Christiana residents.

The Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation, an agency of the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport provides adolescent mothers aged 17 and under, with the opportunity to continue their education during pregnancy. The Centre prepare the girls for reintegration into the formal school system.

In Jamaica, thunder storms are part of everyday atmospheric conditions. But in recent times, there have been reports of injuries resulting from lightning strikes. Though not often, they have caused deaths, as was the case when a 15 year old St Catherine student got struck while picking fruit during a thunderstorm in September 2019. Lightning is not a light matter and...

The country has passed the 6th and final review under the Precautionary Standby Arrangement (PSBA) with the International Monetary fund (IMF). An IMF staff team led by mission chief Uma Ramakrishnan visited Kingston from September 9–19, to conduct the discussions as the country prepares to exit financial relations with the fund. Consideration by the IMF’s Executive Board of the review is tentatively...

Major works on the bridges are now complete and the National Works Agency, NWA says what’s left to be done is paving work, now being carried out on a short section of the eastern end of the lanes leading to downtown Kingston. Once these works are complete the contractor will move to finishing the section with Asphaltic Concrete overlay.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has congratulated Jamaica for the successful completion of the Precautionary Stand-By Arrangement which expires on November 8.

The Governments of Jamaica and the People’s Republic of China have signed a protocol agreement for the export of frozen lobster to markets in China.