Tom Tavares-Finson, the Jamaica Labour Party's Commissioner on the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) has announced his retirement from the position, effective January 31.
This will conclude 20 years of service for Tavares-Finson to both the Electoral Advisory Committee (EAC) and the ECJ.
Cabinet has approved the policy framework for the establishment of the One Road Authority (ORA) as an executive agency under the Works portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Infrastructure Development.
Minister with Responsibility for Works, Robert Morgan made the disclosure during yesterday's post Cabinet press briefing.
A new policy report has identified outdated legislation as one of three interlocking constraints to non-kin adoptions in Jamaica .
The others are: an ambiguous governance framework and chronic under-resourcing, which together slow and block adoption
Minister of Health Dr. Christopher Tufton has called on the food industry to seek to provide better choices
This as it was outlined by the Heart Foundation that heart disease is the leading cause of death in Jamaica.
"A country that receives its returning nationals with only suspicion creates risk, but a country which receives them with structure creates sustainability and opportunity." That's the declaration from State Minister of National Security and Peace, Juliet Cuthbert Flynn, as she stressed the importance of having strengthened practices for the reintegration of involuntary returned migrants.