Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced that there will be no permits issued for public gathering over the next fourteen (14) days. The Prime Minister stated that permits that have already been granted will be revoked in light of the second case of COVID-19 in Jamaica.
Speaking at a media conference following an emergency Cabinet meeting on March 11th, Prime Minister Holness reiterated there is no need to panic.
“Where the law requires the granting of a permit for any event or gathering, no permits will be issued within the next 14 days, so that means any event, any entertainment events, any gathering that requires the issuing of a permit, we will instruct the permitting authorities, police, and the municipal councils not to issue any permits. Permits that are already issued will be rescinded, revoked effectively. We are placing a ban on those forms of gatherings. However, there are still private companies, [and] business that are having meetings, weddings, funerals, and Sunday morning church service, we are asking the public [to exercise] responsibility,” said Prime Minister Holness.
From the 9th to the 30th of May 2020, there will be a free exhibition of 700 seven-inch sleeves at NOW Gallery on Greenwich Peninsula, all created for one of these seven tracks:
In keeping with its objective to foster strategic growth of culinary tourism as a product niche for Jamaica, the Gastronomy Network has organized the third staging of the Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Festival, scheduled for March 20th to the 22nd, at Newcastle in the Blue Mountains.
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