Executive Director of National Integrity Action (NIA), Professor Trevor Munroe, says the NIA is pleased with the established partnership with the Ministry of Justice and looks forward to providing continued support. “We are pleased to see early signs of positive outcomes as a result of the many years of a continued partnership for the reform of the justice sector,” Professor...

Business persons who now fall below the new General Consumption Tax (GCT) threshold and are to be deregistered as taxpayers, will have the option to apply to the Commissioner General to be re-registered. This is being facilitated through amendments to the GCT Act, which were approved during Friday’s (January 24) sitting of the Senate. Leader of Government Business in the...

The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries will be partnering with municipal corporations to speed up implementation of the National Farm Road Rehabilitation Programme. Minister without Portfolio, Hon. JC. Hutchinson, said that the Ministry intends to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the local authorities, which will see the entities carrying out critical work such as road scoping....

Commissioner of Police, Major General Antony Anderson, says the States of Public Emergency (SOEs) continue to have positive results in the areas they have been implemented. Aimed at saving lives and restoring peace, safety and security, SOEs were last year declared in St. James, Hanover and Westmoreland; Clarendon and St. Catherine; and St. Andrew South. “This methodology has been very...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is improving connectivity among police stations in the fight against crime. Commissioner of Police, Major General Antony Anderson, says the microwave communication network has been upgraded, and the system now carries five times the amount of data. “So by the end of 2021, every police station will be connected, so we can send data from...

Cabinet will receive an update today (January 27) on Jamaica’s state of preparedness for the novel coronavirus (nCoV). Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, who made the disclosure, indicated that “when it comes to health threats, the Government is taking no chance, no risk; we are trying to be fully prepared”. He was speaking to journalists prior to the...

Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, is assuring the nation that the security forces are unwavering in their efforts to nab gang members and dismantle their activities. Speaking to reporters at the Old Harbour Police Station in St. Catherine on February 24, after touring stations in the parish, the Minister said that with the recent conviction of a...