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Twenty Montego Bay residents are being trained to as first responders as part of the six-day Basic Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) Programme. The beneficiaries live in Barrett Town, Rhyne Park, Mount Zion, North Gully, Canterbury, Albion, and Williams Street.

Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, has launched ‘Operation Birthright’, a project under the National Identification System (NIDS) to provide birth certificates for the more than 200,000 Jamaicans without legal proof of their identity.

Police youth clubs in schools in St. James, will be reestablished and revamped during the new school year, following the successful staging of youth summer camps in the Norwood and Salt Spring communities, geared at fostering a better relationship between youth and the Police.

Over 25,000 classroom spaces are now available for secondary students under the Ministry of Education and Youth’s Sixth Form Pathways Programme.

The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development is encouraging members of the public interested in providing meals and support services for the homeless to work with the Drop-in Centres in Municipal Corporations to do so.

Students at the Franklin Town Primary School in Kingston began the new school year on Monday in a newly painted school building, thanks to the efforts of the Embassy of the Dominican Republic under its ‘Dom Rep School Adoption Programme’.

Jamaica’s historical and cultural icons who hail from St. Ann were recognised during the recent virtual heritage series, ‘Salute to the Parish of St Ann’. It was the second virtual staging of the event, which was developed by the Institute of Jamaica, a division of the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport.

Hundreds of students in the St. Catherine Southeast constituency recently benefited from a $1.5 million dollar back-to-school treat, organised by Member of Parliament for the area, Robert Miller, and other stakeholders.

Scores of students in the constituency of St. Catherine West Central, received back to school supplies and other items at a community fair organized by Member of Parliament, Dr. Christopher Tufton.

The Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC)A is to expand the trapping and extracting system to eight other gullies in the Corporate Area as part ongoing efforts to prevent plastics from entering the Kingston Harbour.

Secretary of the Board of Supervision in the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, Treka Lewis, says 3 drop-in centres are to be expanded to include night shelter facilities.

Approximately 9,000 persons in 12 communities across Westmoreland now have improved water security following the completion of a major pumping system in the parish.