A food testing regulatory body in the country ensures that the food you eat is monitored and the best practices are applied to ensure it is fit for consumption.The internationally-recognised Veterinary Services Division, VSD of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries is the regulatory body for food testing in Jamaica.
Cradled in the embrace of the Garden parish is the St. Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital. The type B facility which sits on thirteen acres of land employs 75 doctors and over two hundred other members of staff.
Forty teachers, who have made outstanding contribution to the advancement of education in Jamaica, have been honoured with the Prime Minister’s Medal of Appreciation for Service to Education. Among this year’s recipients is Principal at the Lystra Primary School in St. Thomas, Estell Davis Wright, who has dedicated 35 years to education.
Forty educators were nominated for the Prime Minister’s Medal of Appreciation Awards. The award is presented to educators who have served for a minimum of 15 years; displayed exceptional service in the teaching profession; and have shown evidence of community involvement, innovation and creativity in service. Among the forty nominees was sixty-one year old, Raymond Munroe, a man described as a committed...
The Government of Jamaica, is changing the way it treats data and the level of accessibility it offers the Jamaican people. Jamaica has become the first country in the Caribbean to launch an open data portal- data.gov.jm. The portal was officially launched on June 24
The housing and construction sectors are pivotal to economic growth, in fact economists often measure the scope of growth in an economy based on the number of housing project starts reported each year.The Government will implement several far reaching initiatives to spur growth in this sector. We explore some of these on today’s edition of Going for Growth.
As part of efforts to reduce national exposure to the impacts of climate change, the Government and its partners have implemented Phase II of the Jamaica Rural Economy and Ecosystems Adapting to Climate Change (JaREEACH) Project.
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