Registered airport red cap porters are among the 19 categories of workers in the tourism industry slated to benefit from the Government’s $10-billion COVID Allocation of Resources for Employees (CARE) Programme. The programme, which was launched online today (April 9), via website www.wecare.gov.jm, aims to provide financial assistance to workers and businesses impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The package...

Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), has identified several investment and export opportunities that can be pursued for national growth and development, after the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The areas cited by the country’s investment and export promotion agency include: manufacturing, agriculture and agribusiness, logistics services, e-commerce, the global services sector (GSS) and other information technology (IT)-enabled services, healthcare and biotechnology, and renewable...

Fitch Rating Agency, today, April 10, 2020, revised the country’s outlook to “Stable” from “Positive”, while affirming its Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at B+. The Rating Agency indicated that the revised outlook reflected the shock to Jamaica from the on-going global Corona Virus (COVID-19) health crisis. Fitch indicated that due to the pandemic, the country will experience a...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, has donated $1.5 million, through his Positive Jamaica Foundation, to non-profit community development organisation, Mustard Seed Communities (MSC). Mr. Holness presented the cheque, and packages of food and personal care items to MSC founder, Monsignor Gregory Ramkissoon, and Executive Director of MSC Jamaica, Darcy Tulloch Williams, when he visited the entity's headquarters on...

Infrastructural changes have been made to the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH), in St. James, to bolster the fight against the Coronavirus (COVID-19). These adjustments include a new isolation ward, which is slated to be opened soon, and conversion of the recently constructed accident and emergency ward into a (COVID-19) ward, consisting of 20 beds. At a press briefing on Thursday...

Farmers affected by the closure of hotels due to the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19), will receive assistance from the Tourism Linkages Network to offload their produce. This was disclosed by Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, who noted that through the use of technology, the Network will be supporting small famers to connect their supplies to market. “Now that...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, is anticipating that the tourism industry could begin to recover from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in another five months. “I think at about September, we will begin to see the turnaround and I think borders will begin to open and airlines will begin to make initial forays. This is not to say that they’ll...