The Education Ministry is to establish five new regions, which will bring the total number of regions to eleven as part of the education modernisation process.
Representatives from the Pharmaceutical industry are meeting with Health Minister, Rudyard Spencer to address their concerns regarding plans by the government to restructure the Health Corporation Limited (HCL).
The head of the Police Anti-Corruption Branch, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Justin Felice said more lie detector tests are coming for policemen and women.
Generation 2000 (G2k) the young professional arm of the JLP is to set up a monitoring committee to evaluate the government’s implementation of its manifesto promises.
Member of Parliament for Central Kingston, Ronald Thwaites is calling for legislative changes to help in tracking delinquent recipients of students’ loans from the state.
The People’s National Party (PNP) hierarchy is rejecting claims that the embattled former State Minister for Energy, Kern Spencer, has been asked to resign from the party over the light bulb saga.
An 11 year old girl is believed to have committed suicide after she was found hanging by a piece of cloth from a tree at her home in Hanover yesterday.
The tax administration department is warning owners of businesses that failure to meet the March 15 deadline for the payment of income tax returns could result in penalties.
The communities in Spanish Town, St. Catherine that were without regular water supplies due to a strike action by fortnightly workers at the National Irrigation Commission (NIC), are expected to have their service restored today.
Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, said tourism figures have escalated since the start of the year despite the expected recession in the United States.
A team of Japanese engineers from Tokyo Electric Power Company are in the island, assessing the transmission and distribution operations of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS).
