The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) says its projected growth rate in the economy could be impacted by the postponement of major infrastructural projects and adverse weather conditions. The BOJ in its quarterly monetary policy report for December 2015 says the rate of growth is...
Former Finance Minister, Dr. Peter Phillips, says he's asked the Auditor General to investigate the sale of the Oceana Hotel in Downtown Kingston. [audio_mp3 url="https://nationwideradiojm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Phillips-Lash-Shaw-MAY-30-2016.mp3"] Dr....
The state owned bus company, Jamaica Urban Transit Company, JUTC, has fired its Marketing and Communications Manager, Clinton Clarke. JUTC Managing Director, Paul Abrahams, says the board of the bus company terminated Mr. Clarke's contract yesterday. [audio_mp3...
A Chinese national was convicted in the Falmouth Resident’s Magistrate Court on Friday, for breaching the Trademark and Excise Duty Act. He's 38-year-old Shi Chang Li. Trelawny police say that on December 17 last year, the police and specialists from J Wray and Nephew...
The Incorporated Masterbuilders Association of Jamaica, IMAJ, is this afternoon pointing out that there's a pattern emerging of sections of buildings under construction in the hotel sector collapsing. The IMAJ is also pointing out, that there's never been a recorded...
The National Environment and Planning Agency, NEPA, and the Hanover Parish Council are this afternoon coming under fire from the Negril Chamber of Commerce, NCC over their alleged failure to properly supervise the construction of the Royalton Hotel in the resort town....
President of the Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services, TODSS, Egeton Newman is calling on taxi operators in Western St. Thomas to return to work. Taxi operators are protesting for a third day to highlight the bad condition of the road which leads from...
The Caribbean Policy Research Institute, CaPRI, is recommending that the National Housing Trust, NHT relinquishes the construction of houses to private sector. This as the think-tank says the building of houses by the NHT crowds out private investment in the housing...
The mother of the police constable, Kemar Beckford who was shot dead in Hanover last year by a Police Inspector, says she will be asking the judicial review court to examine a recent ruling by the Independent Commission of Investigations, INDECOM. INDECOM last week...
President of the Association of Principals and Vice Principals, Linton Weir says his members are in a much more comfortable place now with the Education Ministry's directive that schools should no longer charge auxiliary or mandatory fees. Mr. Weir was addressed a...