The House of Representatives on Wednesday (December 7) approved the Second Supplementary Estimates for fiscal year 2022/23. It will primarily address the allocation of amounts previously captured under the contingencies in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service Head across other ministries, departments and agencies to facilitate implementation of the new compensation system. The Second Supplementary Estimates facilitated the...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, tabled the Second Supplementary Estimates for fiscal year 2022/23, in the House of Representatives on December 6. It will primarily address the allocation of amounts previously captured under the contingencies in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service Head across other ministries, departments and agencies to facilitate...

More than 700 farmers operating on 810 hectares of land in the Essex Valley region of St. Elizabeth will soon have improved access to irrigation to boost agricultural production and productivity. A ceiling budget of $4.3 billion has been approved by the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service in the 2023/2024 financial year for the Essex Valley Agriculture Development...

Manager, Jamaica Social Stock Exchange (JSE), Nora Blake, addresses the JSE Telethon Pre-Launch held on Friday, December 2, at the entity’s downtown Kingston offices. The telethon aims to raise $40 million for the Inner-city renewal, Values and Attitudes programme and the Suicide Prevention and Financial Literacy Programme for Students.

The Wildlife Protection Act and the Natural Resources Conservation Authority (NRCA) Act will be amended to provide stiffer fines and penalties for breaches. “Those who have flouted our laws and polluted with little to no consequences will now see consequences that match the scale of the problem,” said Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation,...

The Ministry of Finance and the Public Service has been working to institute mechanisms to operationalise the Public Bodies Management and Accountability (Nomination, Selection and Appointment to Boards) Regulations. The Regulations represent a seminal tool towards achieving good corporate governance in respect of public bodies. Public bodies in Jamaica are responsible for $466 billion of expenditure in the 2022/23 fiscal...

Having addressed the bottleneck issue within the public procurement process, the Government is now focusing on eliminating the incidence of duplications, among other impediments. This was disclosed by Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, while speaking during Wednesday’s (November 30) handover ceremony for 50 new garbage trucks and 10 motorcycles acquired for the National...

The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) has expressed gratitude to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for supporting the ‘Census in Schools’ programme tour, which concluded on Wednesday (November 30). The UNFPA contributed US$15,000 to the initiative, which saw 14 primary and 14 secondary schools islandwide being visited. STATIN’s Corporate Communications Manager, Georgia Garvey-Green, told JIS News that the UNFPA’s...

Sixty micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) have benefited from critical support to grow their businesses under the Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) 2022 Accelerator programme. The entity partnered with the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) to deliver cohort four of the programme at a cost of $60 million. The intensive training, undertaken over six months, covered six modules –...