Forty-seven students from the first cohort of the Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment’s (HOPE) Design and Apparel Manufacturing Corps group have graduated with Garment Assembler Level 1 Certificates from the HEART Trust/NTA Garmex Academy. The graduation ceremony was hosted on the grounds of HEART Trust/NTA Garmex Academy in Kingston on Wednesday (August 22), where they were each awarded with certificates....

Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) Governor, Brian Wynter, is encouraging consumers to aggressively shop around to identify financial institutions offering low interest rate loans. “We have the benefit, in Jamaica, of many entities (and) you have a choice (of) where you can borrow from. We have a tendency to look at just one (institution). I think that it’s a good time...

Governor of the Bank of Jamaica (BoJ), Brian Wynter, has dismissed the claim that the Central Bank is devaluing the Jamaican dollar, as part of plans to increase the inflation rate. “It is absolutely not true and it takes you down a wrong path if you believe that’s what we are actually doing. We are not doing that,” Mr. Wynter...

Finance and Public Service Minister, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, today (August 22), released official correspondence from the Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) outlining the factors resulting in Jamaica’s inflation target shortfall as at June 2018. In September 2017, the Government set a medium term inflation target of 4.0 to 6.0 per cent, to be achieved and maintained by the BoJ...

The burgeoning local bamboo and castor oil industries are to be included in the Agriculture Push-Start (APS) programme, as part of plans to capitalise on the value chain of these crops. Castor oil is to be added to the programme by the end of the year and bamboo is to be included at a later date. This was announced by...

Over 30 young persons from communities across the Corporate Area have been certified after completing six months of training under the ‘Strengthening the Culture of Integrity Jamaica Project: Skills Building for Integrity Programme’. The engagement, which was initiated and implemented by the Women’s Resource and Outreach Centre (WROC) Limited, targeted persons, aged 17 to 45, who were taught English Language,...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, is again encouraging Jamaicans to embrace and not fear the new Primary Exit Profile (PEP) which will replace the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) as the national secondary-school placement examination. “We can understand the fears and the concerns. But I encourage all Jamaica to embrace this as an opportunity for the transformation of...