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Minister of National Security, Hon. Robert Montague, highlights a point while addressing a press briefing at the Ministry’s Oxford Road offices in St. Andrew yesterday (January 18).
Minister of National Security, Hon. Robert Montague, highlights a point while addressing a press briefing at the Ministry’s Oxford Road offices in St. Andrew yesterday (January 18).
National Security

Surveillance Aircraft to be Acquired

The Government is to acquire a surveillance aircraft as part of a raft of new measures to strengthen the country’s border-protection system. This was disclosed by Minister of National Security, Hon. Robert Montague, during a press briefing at his Oxford...
Coordinator for Science and Technology Education at the Scientific Research Council (SRC), Amanda McKenzie.
Coordinator for Science and Technology Education at the Scientific Research Council (SRC), Amanda McKenzie.

SRC Hosts Science Fair Workshops
National Security Minister, Hon. Robert Montague, emphasises a point while addressing the commissioning of a Cessna aeroplane for the Jamaica Combined Cadet Force (JCCF), at the Caribbean Aviation Training Centre situated at the Tinson Pen Aerodrome in Kingston on Friday, September 23. (FILE)
National Security Minister, Hon. Robert Montague, emphasises a point while addressing the commissioning of a Cessna aeroplane for the Jamaica Combined Cadet Force (JCCF), at the Caribbean Aviation Training Centre situated at the Tinson Pen Aerodrome in Kingston on Friday, September 23. (FILE)

Gov’t Hires New Forensic Pathologist
Director/Principal of the Regional Drug Law Enforcement Training Centre (REDTRAC), Major George Benson (centre), provides details on the operations of the entity at a JIS Think Tank on January 13. He in flanked by acting academic affairs directors Wayne Vassell (left) and Tanisha Boothe.
Director/Principal of the Regional Drug Law Enforcement Training Centre (REDTRAC), Major George Benson (centre), provides details on the operations of the entity at a JIS Think Tank on January 13. He in flanked by acting academic affairs directors Wayne Vassell (left) and Tanisha Boothe.

REDTRAC to be Expanded
Acting Commissioner of Police, Novelette Grant (right), and Commissioner of Customs, Major (Rt’d) Richard Reese, engage in discussion shortly before the start of a press briefing held at the National Security Ministry’s Oxford Road Offices in St. Andrew, yesterday (January 18). The briefing was held to provide details on the MOU, which will see the establishment of three new marine bases in Jamaica. The document was signed by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and the Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) in December last year.
Acting Commissioner of Police, Novelette Grant (right), and Commissioner of Customs, Major (Rt’d) Richard Reese, engage in discussion shortly before the start of a press briefing held at the National Security Ministry’s Oxford Road Offices in St. Andrew, yesterday (January 18). The briefing was held to provide details on the MOU, which will see the establishment of three new marine bases in Jamaica. The document was signed by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and the Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) in December last year.

More Marine Bases to Protect Borders

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Local Government

Mayors and Councillors Urged to Pay Property Tax

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, is urging the island’s mayors and councillors to pay their property tax. “I have a list of 229 councillors, some of whom have never paid any property tax for more than 20 years, and some of whom also own one or more properties, but have not been paying taxes,” the...
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Economic Growth & Job CreationVision 2030

National Policy on Poverty – Green Paper

The National Policy on Poverty and National Poverty Reduction Programme together constitute a responsive instrument of the Government of Jamaica to the need to institute a systematic and accountable framework to implement, coordinate, and monitor measures to address poverty and vulnerability. These represent a move to providing a focal point for coordinating poverty programmes and to address the void existing...
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In this file photo, Minister of National Security, Hon. Robert Montague, has the attention of security guards from Hawkeye Limited, at a press conference at the Ministry’s head office on Oxford Road on November 8, 2016 to announce a self-contributory health-insurance scheme for security guards through Guardian Life.
National Security

Minister Wants Improved Working Conditions for Security Guards

Minister of National Security, Hon. Robert Montague, says he will be lobbying for improved working conditions for private security guards. Speaking at an interactive session with heads of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) islandwide, at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston on January 17, Mr. Montague said he will be taking a submission to Cabinet that will outline proposals...
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Employees at one of several Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) entities operating out of the Montego Bay Free Zone. (File photo)
Finance & Public Service

Unemployment Down

The unemployment rate has continued to decline despite an increase in the labour force, that is, the number of persons actively seeking employment. This was disclosed by Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw, as he opened the debate on the first Supplementary Estimates for the 2016/17 fiscal year, in the House of Representatives on January 17....
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Minister of National Security, Hon. Robert Montague. (FILE)
National Security

National Security Ministry to Make Greater Use of Space in Island’s Prisons

The Ministry of National Security will be making more efficient use of space in the island’s correctional service. This was disclosed by portfolio Minister, Hon. Robert Montague, during an interactive session with heads of the security forces at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston on January 17. “We are going to be rationalising the prison population and moving some...
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Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw. (FILE)
Finance & Public Service

Business Confidence at All-Time High

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw, says business confidence in Jamaica is at an all-time high. Addressing the House of Representatives on January 17, he informed that the latest Business Confidence Index for December 2016 shows a 15.4 per cent increase compared to the index in the last quarter of 2015. “This was reported to be...
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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (right), is in conversation with (from left) Gruppo Campari Managing Director for Business Unit, North America, Jean-Jacques Dubau; Gruppo Campari CEO, Bob Kunze-Concewitz; and J. Wray & Nephew Chairman, Clement ‘Jimmy’ Lawrence, following a tour of J. Wray & Nephew’s environmental and conservation solutions at its 234 Spanish Town Road location on Wednesday, January 18. J. Wray & Nephew, through its parent company Gruppo Campari, unveiled a waste-water treatment facility, a solar-energy system and a solid-waste recycling facility. Looking on (in background) is J. Wray & Nephew Product Supply Chain Director, Jorge Gonzalez.
Prime Minister

PM Hails J. Wray & Nephew on Environmental and Conservation Solutions

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, has hailed J. Wray & Nephew, and parent company Gruppo Campari, on the total investment of US$6 million in the development of a state-of-the-art waste-water treatment facility as well as recycling and solar-energy systems. Mr. Holness, in remarks following a tour of the company’s Spanish Town Road location on Wednesday (January 18), said...
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