Jamalco has procured and donated an electronic Vital Signs Monitor to the Isolation Unit at the Lionel Town Hospital. This device is used by medical practitioners to read a patient’s blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and oxygen saturation levels simultaneously at precise intervals. With the push of a button, the information is recorded instantly in the patient’s electronic medical record and.. Read more
Three of four Community Councils that benefitted from a bee-keeping incomegenerating project between 2018 and 2019 are now reaping the sweet reward of hardlabour after harvesting their first crop of honey from the project. Over the two years, Jamalco invested approximately three million dollars in the beekeeping projects at Port, Harmons Valley, Railroad and Mile Gully Community Councils. Corporate Services.. Read more
Forty computers were officially handed over to four (4) schools in Jamalco’s operating areas in Clarendonand Manchester under the company’s Computers in Schools Programme. The presentation exercise tookplace at the Bustamante High School in Clarendon on Thursday, June 18. The computers valued at almost $5 million is donated to support students access to technology. Thesedevices are critically needed by schools.. Read more
Some $9.2 million in grants were presented to 54 institutions that benefitted from the services ofJamalco team volunteers through the various volunteer programmes executed during 2019. Of thatamount, some $3.5 million was presented recently to NGOs through the company’s Good DeedsProgramme. Good Deeds is a voluntary programme, which aims to foster a culture of service among Jamalcoemployees. Through Good Deeds,.. Read more
As the Government of Jamaica executes the Jamaica Moves campaign, aimed at reducing the negative impact of non-communicable diseases on the Jamaican populace, Jamalco will be continuing its Jamalco in Motion (JIM) programme during 2020 to get community representatives involved in physical activity. Both Jamalco volunteers and residents of Jamalco’s operating communities will exercise and get fit during the six.. Read more
Jamalco hosted a series of sensitization sessions with principals, teachers and students, inselected Clarendon schools, to highlight National Earthquake Awareness Week which wascommemorated from January 11 – 17. The week was observed under the theme‘Earthquakes have no season, do your part, be earthquake smart’. The presentations and drills undertaken were aimed at heightening awareness,preparedness and safe evacuation in the event.. Read more
