JAMAICA’S world renowned Blue and John Crow Mountains have now been inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.
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Each year, scores of volunteer doctors, nurses, educators and other professionals from around the world take time off from their jobs for weeks and months to live and work among the people in the deep rural community of Hagley Gap in St Thomas where the international charity Blue Mountain Project (BMP) has set up its base.
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Filling a gap
TEF supports push to designate Blue and John Crow mountains World Heritage Site
AS part of Jamaica’s continued push to have the Blue and John Crow Mountains designated as a World Heritage Site, the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) has provided over $13 million to date to support the venture.
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TEF supports push to designate Blue and John Crow mountains World Heritage Site
THE role of family doctors is to take centre stage on Tuesday when Jamaica, for the first time since it was first declared by the World Health Organization in 2010, celebrates World Family Doctor Day.
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World Family Doctor Day
THE spotlight was turned on schizophrenia during yesterday’s observance of World Mental Health Day, the theme of which was ‘Living with Schizophrenia’.
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‘Living with Schizophrenia’
APPROXIMATELY two hundred pensioners from Washington Gardens and adjoining communities, along with the staff of the Western District Post Office on Molynes Road in Kingston 20 were feted during a pensioners’ health fair on Thursday, World Postal Day.
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World Postal Day Treat for pensioners, post office staff

