Plans for Civil Service Week and 5K run

Following the warm-up session at 6:30 a.m. at Emancipation Park, the run/walk will start promptly at 7 a.m., heading to Oxford Road.

The route: Old Hope Road, on to Seymour Avenue, on to Fairway Avenue, turn left on to Lady Musgrave Road, right on to Trafalgar Road, left on Antigua Avenue, right on Grenada Crescent, on to Dominica Drive, right on to Knutsford Boulevard, and finish on the eastern side of Emancipation Park.

Participants will be provided with bibs embedded with chips to record their times. The pickup location will be announced at a later date.

Quiz competitions for secondary schools and government agencies will get under way on Thursday, November 22, at the Medallion Hall Hotel, and the finance ministry, respectively.

The finals for the quiz competitions will be at the finance ministry, and an after-work lyme will be held on Friday, November 23, at the National Housing Trust Sports Club.

Civil Service Week runs from November 18 to 24. There will be an official media launch on Wednesday, November 14.

Other activities to mark the week include:

– a church service on Sunday, November 18.

– a Women’s Day event, hosted by the Jamaica Civil Service Association at Jacisera Park in Kingston on Monday, November 19, beginning at 4 p.m.

– Jamaica Civil Service Long Service Awards on Wednesday, November 21, at King’s House.

Senior director in the Employee Relations and Benefits Unit, Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Peter Morris (left), speaks with race director at Running Events Jamaica Limited, Alfred ‘Frano’ Francis, and Civil Servant of the Year 2017 Kerry-Ann Spaulding. Occasion was the official launch of the inaugural charity run/walk being staged for Civil Service Week 2018 at the finance ministry’s National Heroes Circle offices in Kingston on Monday.