Local Government and Community Development Minister, Desmond McKenzie, says the Ministry is to provide more than 100- thousand employment opportunities during the Christmas season. Mr McKenzie was addressing his Ministry's Quarterly media briefing today He says the...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness, has told members of the Jamaican Diaspora in Kenya, that Jamaica is to become the Caribbean's centre of commerce in the next ten years. Mr Holness says Jamaica has become a model of economic reform, following an economic crisis in 2008...
Executive Director of the National Integrity Action, Professor Trevor Munroe says Jamaica is unlikely to show any significant gains in the upcoming Global Corruption Perception Index, CPI. The CPI for 2019 is due next month. Professor Trevor Munroe, Executive Director...
No Romaine Lettuce has been imported since the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, MICAF issued a ban on the vegetable earlier this year. That's according to Communications Specialist at the Consumer Affairs Commission, CAC, Dorothy Campbell. Ms...
Former President of Private Sector Organisation and Jamaica Exporters Association, Beverly Lopez has died. Mrs. Lopez passed away at her home yesterday morning. She, was a graduate of the prestigious Alpha Academy and recipient of Order of Jamaica in 2006 for her...
The Jamaica Police Federation says it feels vindicated by a recent court ruling that prevents the Independent Commission of Investigations, INDECOM, from compelling members of the Constabulary to answer questions during an investigation. The ruling was handed down on...
North East St. Andrew Member of Parliament, Delroy Chuck, says the Holness Administration has delivered on many promises that the Opposition People's National Party, PNP, conceptualized. Mr. Chuck pointed to the many infrastructure projects started under the current...
Police Commissioner, Major General Anderson, says assault charges will be laid on some members of the Qahal Yahweh congregation in Norwood in Montego Bay who attacked the Police when they went to rescue at least two children who were allegedly being kept captive and...
Eastern St. Andrew Member of Parliament, the Jamaica Labour Party's Fayval Williams, says she's intensifying her push to have additional patrols arranged and more security cameras installed in several areas of her constituency which have been plagued by robberies....
Construction on a new building in downtown Kingston to house the offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade is complete. The building was formally handed over to the Government at a ceremony yesterday, at the new Foreign Ministry headquarters, 20...