Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the government is working with a timeline of two years to fully establish a transparent and efficient system to measure the performance output of public sector workers. The Prime Minister made the comment on Tuesday during the...
The Opposition People's National Party, PNP says the Prime Minister's move to forego his salary increase, 'appears insincere and contrived'. In a media release on Tuesday, the Opposition questioned his authority to remove the Office of the Prime Minister from the...
Information Minister, Robert Morgan, says as a beneficiary of the salary increase, Prime Minister Andrew Holness is well within his rights to refuse the pay hike. Minister Morgan also denies assertions that the Prime Minister's rejection of the pay raise was hollow...
The Governor of the Bank of Jamaica, Richard Byles, says inflation remains too volatile for the country to consider lowering interest rates. The rate charged by the Central Bank currently stands at 7%, coming from a historic low of 5%. Raising interest rates is the...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness is encouraging Jamaicans to play their part in mitigating the effects of climate change by planting trees throughout the year. He made the call in his Labour Day address to the nation. The Prime Minister notes that planting trees...
Opposition Leader, Mark Golding, says more must be done to bring balance and fairness to public sector workers under the government's recent compensation restructuring exercise. He notes that Labour Day is a reminder of the importance of solidarity and collective...
Amid public outrage, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has directed the Transformation Implementation Unit to remove the 'Prime Minister's' compensation from the new salary scale. The Prime Minister's compensation will therefore remain at its previous levels....
President of the Jamaica Teachers' Association JTA, La Sonja Harrison, is calling on the government to immediately respond to a request for a meeting to address multiple anomalies and discrepancies arising from the recent compensation restructuring exercise. She made...
The opposition PNP is calling on the government to revise the salary scale for the political directorate in the spirit of transparency, proportionality and accountability. The opposition is also recommending that the government delays the increase of salaries to...
The PNP's representative on the Electoral Commission of Jamaica, ECJ, Dr. Dayton Campbell says he will only accept a 20-percent increase in salary, as a mark of solidarity with those public servants who were given that mark up under the government's compensation...