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Jamaica fully financed for the current fiscal year; Accreditation of the UWI Pesticide Research Laboratory lauded; and Jamaican born Professor receives Black History Month Award.

Finance Minister says No Wide Scale Redunancies Or Job Separations for Public Sector Workers, Transport Ministry urges passengers to desist from hanging from vehicles and John Common Road in St. James to be upgraded.

Energy Minister in Negotiations for Further Oil And Gas Exploration, road fatalities involving motorcyclists increase by over 100%, and Government Moves to Add Reggae to UNESCO Cultural Heritage List.

Finance Ministry confident Bauxite industry will survive potential Noranda closure; Bustamante Hospital for Children to open Cardiac Centre in April; And.Jamaica Fire Brigade expands Emergency Medical Services

Activists Warned Not to Interfere with Voting Process; Prime Minister headlines energy conference; and Labour Ministry and the Jamaica Library Service sign MOU.

News Recap Feb 1-5

News Recap Feb 1-5

Employers urged to give election-day workers time off; Extra 100 million dollars allocated to JEEP for ZIK V preparations; And several schools participate in National Schools Clean-Up Day.

The Electoral Commission Takes Steps to Prevent Dual Citizens from Being Nominated; Prime Minister symbolically opens Angels to Linstead leg of North South Highway; and the Tourism Ministry Releases findings of its Demand Study.

Significant reduction in major crimes since the start of the year; Marcus Garvey Drive to Be Rehabilitated; and Jamaica Fire Brigade gets three new trucks.

Tourism workers pension scheme to come on stream by 2017; State of the art transportation centre opened in Linstead, St. Catherine; and universities urged to partner with manufacturing companies.

Government acting decisively to curtail ZIKA threat, Health Practitioners reminded of mandatory reporting of suspected zika cases, and education ministry to boost math and science instruction at the secondary level.