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Government aiming to close the digital divide in 2021; Grade six students to sit PEP Ability Test on February 23; and Foreign Affairs Ministry appoints three new Heads of Mission.

Prime Minister hails Gordon Butch Stewart; Two Field Hospitals to be completed by the end of the month; and another COVID-19 death confirmed.

Coming up: Schools urged to follow protocols guiding resumption of face to face classes, National Irrigation Commission developing small water projects; and public encouraged to Report Leaking Fire Hydrants.

129 schools resume face to face instruction in new school term; 5 percent of now population expected to receive COVID 19 vaccine and UK travel ban extended to end of January.

Phase 3 of plastic ban to take effect in January; application deadline for Own your Own Device programme extended; and; Police addressing recent spike in violent incidents.

Construction of field hospitals stalled by recent rains; Repair of Gordon Town road to cost 200 million dollars; and Social Security Ministry Urging Caution Against Cheque Fraud.

Jamaica Social Stock Exchange donates to ‘One Laptop or Tablet per Child’ initiative, Health Minister Tables Tobacco Control Bill, and NWA to Begin Work on Washington Boulevard and Mandela Highway corridors.