ST JAMES, Jamaica — Jamaicans will go to the polls on February 26 to vote for their local government representatives. Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie made the announcement a short while ago at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in St James. The announcement has been long-awaited as the vote was postposed three times since the last election in 2016. McKenzie made the announcement at a national...
LIMA, St James — The Government is exploring the option of providing pre-constructed houses for indigent or single-person household beneficiaries under the New Social Housing Programme (NSHP), as ...
Exactly a year after his passing, the building housing the Ocho Rios fire station in St Ann has been renamed the Larenzo Garnet Douse Building in honour of the firefighter who died in the line of duty on November 30, 2022. The incident occurred...
The Government has promised to increase by 100 per cent, the duty-free threshold for imported goods at the ports and personal items taken in at the airport during travel, by next year.
The proposal is...
GOVERNMENT Senator Abka Fitz-Henley has challenged more young Jamaicans to get involved in the political process as they yearn for improvements in the functioning of key areas of society.
Fitz-He...
Mayor of Kingston Councillor Delroy Williams yesterday welcomed the reopening of the controversial Crab Circle operations at National Heroes' Circle, after its closure for seven weeks due to poor ...
AFTER some six hours of checks, officials of several ministries and State agencies used a media conference at the Office of the Prime Minister late Monday afternoon to declare that the island had ...
FALMOUTH, Trelawny — In a move to reduce the mosquito population and slow the spread of dengue fever in this north-western parish, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKen...
Western Bureau Following a tour of some badly damaged roads in Western Hanover, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie, while issuing some criticisms about the roads being allowed to deteriorate to the level they are at...