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State Minister for Transport, Works and Housing, Hon. Richard Azan (2nd left); North West St. Andrew Member of Parliament, Derrick Smith; and officers of the Ministry view damage in a section of gully in Meadowbrook, during a tour of the community, on Monday (April 13).

Works Ministry to Assess Road Damage in North West St. Andrew

The Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing is to carry out an assessment of damage to roads, drains, gullies in several North West St. Andrew communities, to determine the extent of repairs required. State Minister, Hon. Richard Azan, made the...

Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. the Hon. Peter Phillips (right), is in discussion with Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC., Amar Bhattacharya (left), at yesterday’s (April 13) first Caribbean Regional Dialogue with the G20 Working Development Group, as part of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring Meetings now underway in the American capital. Looking on in the background are Financial Secretary in the Ministry, Devon Rowe (2nd left); and Wayne Robinson from the Bank of Jamaica (BoJ).

Finance Minister Welcomes Engagement with G20

Programme Manager with the Caribbean-Canada Emerging Leaders’ Dialogue (CCELD), Karen Henderson, speaking at a sensitization breakfast forum, held today (April 14), at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, in New Kingston.

Jamaica to Host Closing Ceremony of CCELD This Year

Minister of Labour & Social Security and Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon. Derrick Kellier. (FILE)

Frequently Asked Questions: Flexible Work Arrangements

Update: Fire at Westbrook Avenue

11 years ago Budget 2015/2016Opposition

Contribution to the 2015/2016 Sectoral Debate by Mr. Karl Samuda

Preamble Mr. Speaker, please allow me to express my appreciation for you mature and responsible management of the affairs of this Honourable House. I would also like to express my thanks and appreciation for the efficient manner in which the Clerk, Deputy Clerk and staff of Parliament have tried to make life of Members at least more tolerable. I...

11 years ago Budget 2015/2016Tourism

More Tourists Coming to Jamaica

Jamaica continues to record increased stopover and cruise ship visitor arrivals, a trend which has carried over from 2014. Tourism and Entertainment Minister, Hon. Dr. Wykeham McNeill, says preliminary figures for January to April 7 show a 6.4 per cent increase over 2014. This, he notes, equates to an additional 35,000 visitors for the period which, along with December 2014,...

11 years ago Tourism

Eleven Rest Stops Now in Operation Across the Island

A total of 11 rest stop locations across the island are now in operation, under the Government’s $70 million programme. This follows last month’s (March) completion of Phase 1 of the Rest Stop Programme undertaken along the North and South Coast corridors. Minister of Tourism and Entertainment, Hon. Dr. Wykeham McNeill, made the disclosure while making his presentation in the...

Leader of the Opposition, Dr. Peter Phillips.

11 years ago Finance & Public Service

Finance Minister to Co-Chair G20 Working Group in Washington DC

Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. the Hon. Peter Phillip is now in Washington, D.C., to attend the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. The Spring Meetings of the World Bank and IMF present a forum for discussion among the institutions’ Ministers of Finance, Governors of Central Banks and other high-level authorities of member countries...

Senior Director, Technical Services, Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), and Chairman, Bamboo and Indigenous Materials Advisory Committee (BIMAC), Gladstone Rose (left), and Managing Director, Janitorial Traders Limited (JTL), Roger Chang, discuss product packaging on a bag of Jamaica Jeems Products organic bamboo charcoal. Mr. Rose observed the packaging of the product for export on April 10, at the JTL’s facility on Stanton Terrace, Kingston.

11 years ago Commerce

9,600 Pounds of Organically Certified Bamboo Charcoal To Be Shipped Tomorrow

Jamaica’s first major supply of internationally certified organic bamboo charcoal, totalling 9,600 pounds, is scheduled to be shipped to the United States (US) on Tuesday, April 14. The charcoal, valued at approximately $551,904 (US$4, 800), will be transported from Kingston to Houston, Texas aboard a vessel, scheduled to dock in Jamaica on Monday, April 13, and is expected to arrive...

11 years ago Local Government

Fire at Westbrook Avenue- Riverton City

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) is advising the Jamaica Fire Brigade was called to respond to a fire at Westbrook Avenue in the Riverton City community on Monday, April 13. The JFB has confirmed that a stack of tyres that was being stored at the said location in the community was ablaze. In a bid to...

Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill, delivering the keynote address at the launch of the US$3.9 million Yallahs and Hope River Watershed Project, held on April 13, at the Terra Nova Hotel, in St. Andrew.

11 years ago Environment

US$3.9 Million Watershed Project Launched

The Government has launched a US$3.9 million project to protect the Yallahs and Hope River areas from degradation, and improve water resource management. The five-year project, which is funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), through the Global Environment Facility, will also seek to achieve institutional strengthening and capacity building for integrating biodiversity into watershed management. Delivering the keynote address...