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The Child Protection and Family Agency (CPFSA) will be hosting a series of activities this weekend to commemorate both World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse as well as Universal Children’s Day.

Regional Director at the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB), Odette Soberam-Dyer, is lauding US based Frontier Airlines for their support of efforts to grow Kingston as a tourism destination.

JAMPRO hosting high level investment conference in Montego Bay this month.

Mayor of Kingston, Senator Councillor Delroy Williams says the renovation of the Stony Hill market in St. Andrew is more than 90 percent complete. Work on the facility includes upgrading of the sanitary conveniences, lighting, roof and vending stalls as well as the general area.

The Oracabessa Bay Fish Sanctuary in St. Mary is benefiting from enhanced protection and monitoring under the Oracabessa Marine Trust Reef Restoration Project. The project, which began in 2013 to primarily protect corals from bleaching and other forms of degradation, also aims to restore the Diadema Sea Urchin, after a mass die-off of the animal due to an unknown disease...

Some 10-thousand residents are to benefit from upgrades to the Malvern and new Market Health Centres in St. Elizabeth. A contract has been signed between the Ministry of Health and Wellness and Maxwell Construction Limited for the refurbishing of the New Market facility, at a cost of approximately $5 million dollars. Another was signed with Costley’s Construction for the renovation...

The Chapelton Community Hospital, which has been closed for years, is to be re-opened in December, after undergoing significant upgrading and expansion. The facility will be formally opened by Prime Minister Andrew Holness, and Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. Christopher Tufton on December 8.  

Minister of Education and Youth, Fayval Williams is again calling for a greater collaboration and coordination between parents, guardians, and schools on matters important to the educational success and best interests of the nation’s children.

The government has increased the annual distribution of funds for road patching, de-bushing and drain cleaning activities in each constituency.

The Government this week took a major step in its thrust to develop the interest of students in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics disciplines. This as lands were earmarked in Dunbeholden in Bernard Lodge, St Catherine for the construction of the country’s first STEAM Academy.

Approximately 95,000 residents in St. Thomas will benefit from improved service delivery from the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) with the official opening of the new Yallahs Fire Station.

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange says she is honoured to have been recognised by the Government and people of Jamaica for her years of public service. Ms. Grange received the nation’s fifth highest honour, the Order of Jamaica (OJ), during the Ceremony of Investiture and Presentation of National Honours and Awards on Heroes Day.