MIAMI, Florida (AP) — Hurricane Dorian has strengthened to a major Category 3 storm. The National Hurricane Center in Miami says the hurricane is "extremely dangerous" and poses a significant threat to Florida and the northwestern Bahamas. Dorian was located 445 miles (715 kilometers) east of the northwest Bahamas at 2:00 pm EDT on Friday. [...]
Permanent Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister Audrey Sewell providing the project outline at Monday's contract signing ceremony Work is scheduled to begin by the end of next month on the South Coast Highway Improvement Project, starting with the section from Harbour View in St. Andrew to Cedar Valley in St. Thomas. A [...]
France's President Emmanuel Macron gives a joint-press conference with the US president in Biarritz, south-west France on August 26, 2019, on the third day of the annual G7 Summit attended by the leaders of the world's seven richest democracies, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States. (Photo: AFP) BIARRITZ, France (AFP) — [...]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Tropical Storm Dorian intensified yesterday as it approached the Caribbean on a track that will take it near Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic by midweek, possibly at hurricane strength, US forecasters said. Although the storm was moving toward Cuba and Florida, forecasters said it could lose strength as it [...]
Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke says that in the event that there is a significant downturn in the global economy that has a large enough effect on Jamaica, the fiscal responsibility laws will provide room for a policy response. “But in the meantime, we are monitoring the situation very closely [...]
Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett (centre), addresses a JIS ‘Think Tank’ recently. With Bartlett (from left) are Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Jennifer Griffith, and Chair of the Tourism Workers’ Pension Scheme Oversight Committee, Daisy Coke - Contributed photo. Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, says the Tourism Workers’ Pension Scheme will allow for flexible contributions through [...]
Many children with disabilities (CWDs) are being sexually and physically abused by persons inside the special education facilities that they attend, according to the Centre for Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA). The Gleaner has learnt, through CISOCA, that young girls under the age of 16 appear to be particularly vulnerable to sexual [...]
Radiographer Sharisse Francis (seated) shows off the features of the new Picture Archiving and Communication System mammography work-station unit to (from left) Yulit Gordon, Executive Director, Jamaica Cancer Society, Christopher Zacca, President and CEO, Sagicor Group Jamaica and Simone Walker, Executive Director, Sagicor Foundation and Vice President, Group Markting, Sagicor Group Jamaica. In a bid [...]
As Jamaica joins the rest of the world in observing National Insurance Awareness Day on June 28, one financial planning expert, is using the opportunity to remind Jamaicans about the importance of insurance to their overall financial success. Rose Miller, grants manager at the JN Foundation and Head of the JN BeWi$e financial empowerment programme, [...]
Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr Nigel Clarke (centre) signs the memorandum of understanding to extend the life of the Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC) with EPOC's Chairman Keith Duncan (right) and governor of the Bank of Jamaica, Richard Byles. The memorandum was signed yesterday at the ministry. (Photos: Michael Gordon) Â The [...]
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