JAMAICA Producers (JP) Group recently expanded into the European juice market following its acquisition of a 50 per cent interest in CoBeverage Lab, S.L. (CBL), a fresh juice manufacturer based in Barcelona, Spain. Through its acquisition of CBL, which serves a wide range of customers in southern Europe, JP is seeking to grow and take […]
CHICAGO, United States (AP) – United Airlines says that more than half its employees who weren’t vaccinated last month have gotten their shots since the company announced that vaccines would be required. The airline’s 67,000 US-based employees face a September 27 deadline for getting vaccinated. United said yesterday, however, that employees whose bids for exemptions […]
AFTER LOSING two loved ones to COVID-19 this year, Monica Robotham is on a mission to ensure that she encourages and mobilises as many people as possible to get vaccinated against the virus. Three members of Robotham’s family were among the hundreds of persons who came out to get vaccinated at the second Sagicor Group […]
The country remains in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with Jamaica having the lowest vaccination rate in the region, save for Haiti, Jamaicans are more vulnerable than most to the new Delta variant of the virus. The epidemiologists tell us that danger will not abate until most Jamaicans are vaccinated, and that vaccinated […]
LOCAL insurance companies have been rolling out new products for farmers and fisherfolk, under encouragement from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MOAF), which are aimed at helping the sector to manage risk and support health and life planning. Guardian Life Limited has introduced the FAMA plan, offering a maximum on life insurance of $1.5 […]
Day two of Sagicor Group Jamaica’s Vax Day initiative saw many more team members bringing out their children coming to get vaccinated as the vaccines available now included the Pfizer vaccine, which can be administered to children 12 years and older. The Vax Day held in partnership with the Private Sector Vaccine Initiative (PSVI) on Thursday, September […]
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW) is urging a change of attitude among Jamaican men towards screening for prostate cancer, the leading cancer-related cause of death in adult males locally. According to Dr Nicola Skyers, Director, Non-Communicable Disease and Injury Prevention Unit, MOHW, prostate cancer screening is not yet where it […]
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (CMC) — Caribbean agriculture ministers Monday committed themselves to building the resilience of their agrifood systems to tackle the challenges they are experiencing as a result of the region’s vulnerability to climate-change related natural disasters. The regional agriculture ministers met with their counterparts from the wider American hemisphere at the Conference […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The team Jamaica camp is upbeat after the island’s Country Pavilion was named one of the ‘coolest’ at World Expo 2020, Dubai. The ITP Media Group’s subsidiary, Time Out Dubai, recently published an article featuring the “coolest country pavilions” setting up for the global event, which gets underway in October. Jamaica was […]
