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Industry, Investment and Commerce Minister, Hon. Karl Samuda, says efforts are being made to provide the Small Business Association of Jamaica (SBAJ) with a $50 million loan facility, to enable expansion of its operations. The money is to be allocated from $300 million which Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, earlier this year announced was being provided for on-lending to...

Last year, while leading a group from his cricket team to the summit of Africa's highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro, Garry Sutherland promised his guide that he would bring more Jamaicans to Tanzania to experience the challenge. He kept his promise, on September 24, accompanied by two Jamaican friends from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London - Sharon Gordon, whose...

State Minister for Local Government in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), Hon. Robert Montague, says arrangements are being made to allocate approximately $40 million to each of the 14 municipal councils, to assist repairing infrastructural damage caused by heavy rains associated with tropical storm Nicole in September, and other severe weather systems. Speaking at the launch of the...

Over the last three weeks, there has been disruption in the supply of government subsidized blended fuel to the fisheries sector. This is as a result of the unavailability of supply from the marketing company, PETCOM. Orders for fuel were made in early November, but to date a number of fishing communities remains without the commodity. Since August 2002, the...

Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, has said that the study being undertaken on the country's import waiver policy should be completed by the first quarter of 2011. The government, earlier this year, suspended the issuing of waivers and incentives in a move to boost the economy and address the budget deficit. Prime Minister,...

State Minister for Local Government in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), Hon. Robert Montague, says arrangements are being made to allocate approximately $40 million to each of the 14 municipal councils, to assist repairing infrastructural damage caused by heavy rains associated with tropical storm Nicole in September, and other severe weather systems. Speaking at the launch of the...

Over the last three weeks, there has been disruption in the supply of government subsidized blended fuel to the fisheries sector. This is as a result of the unavailability of supply from the marketing company, PETCOM. Orders for fuel were made in early November, but to date a number of fishing communities remains without the commodity. Since August 2002, the...

Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, has said that the study being undertaken on the country's import waiver policy should be completed by the first quarter of 2011. The government, earlier this year, suspended the issuing of waivers and incentives in a move to boost the economy and address the budget deficit. Prime Minister,...

A state-of-the-art computer laboratory was opened in Treasure Beach, in St. Elizabeth on November 18, built by the Treasure Beach Women's Group, with funding from the Universal Access Fund (UAF). At the opening of the facility, constructed at a cost of $2.5 million, co-founder and President of the Women's Group, Celeste Anderson, told the gathering that it was built for...

Guidance and Counselling Education Officer in the Ministry of Education, Sonia Benjamin, is urging parents to look for signs of grief in children and to seek support from the school in helping them cope with death, violence or other traumatic events. She was addressing the Old Harbour Development Area Committee-organised parenting workshop held on Monday (November 22) in Old Harbour....

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) has received a $5.5 million donation from the German Government to support recovery and relief efforts in the aftermath of recent heavy rains. Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, His Excellency, Juergen Engel, presented the cheque to Deputy Director General of ODPEM, Richard Thompson today (November 24) at the agency's...

There is now greater incentive for companies to invest in the redevelopment and renewal of urban areas, with the passing of the Urban Renewal and Tax relief Amendment Act, by the House of Representatives on November 23. Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw who piloted the Bill, said that investors had become "frustrated with the vagaries...