Government will be establishing Resort Management Units in towns across the island, beginning with Negril as early as September of this year. Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, who made the announcement in Negril on June 24 in a meeting with tourism stakeholders, said the units will be established to provide a formal management structure for the country’s resort areas....

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, is advising school administrators to keep the cost of registration packages between $1,000 and $5,000. Making the call, Senior Advisor at the Ministry, Robert Miller, said they have received reports that some schools are charging exorbitant sums, when the mandate of the Government is to make the cost to parents “minimal”. He said...

The community of Alexandria, in St Ann, now boasts a new branch library, provided through the collaboration of the St. Ann Parish Council, the Jamaica Library Service and the Government of Japan. Funding for the project ($6 million), was made available under the Government of Japan’s Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Project, while the land on which the building...

Jamaica is leading the region in terms of the administration of surveys and statistics. “Jamaica is the country in the Caribbean that produces the most statistics and on the most frequent basis,”  says Director General at the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), Carol Coy. She told JIS News that a number of countries in the region do not produce the...

The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) is urging persons to support its surveys, as information obtained is strictly confidential. “All of our interviewers and all our employees signed an oath of confidentiality and we take that oath seriously, so we want to reassure Jamaicans that the information that they provide is confidential under the Statistics Act and we cannot provide...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, is reporting growth in visitor arrivals and earnings up to May 2016. He said there were 1. 7 million visitors to the island representing a 6.7 per cent increase over the same period last year, with a 4.9 per cent growth in earnings at $1.1 billion. Mr. Bartlett was addressing the inaugural meeting of...

Participants in the Exercise Tradewinds maritime and ground security training exercise rate this year’s renewal as one of the best. Local Planner for the United States (US) Marine Forces Southern Command, Captain Bradley Roensch, and Director of the Canadian contingent, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Kerber, say this year’s attendance represents the largest within the last 10 years. Over 1,700 military personnel...