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Government Partners with Canadian Architects to Assess Accessibility of Gordon House

The Government of Jamaica has made arrangements with Carleton University in Canada and Quadrangle Architects Limited, one of Canada’s leading architectural firms, to visit Jamaica with a view to developing plans to make the nation’s parliament, Gordon House, accessible to...

Science, Technology, Energy, and Mining Minister, Hon. Phillip Paulwell.

No Decision to Divest Petrojam Shares

Employees at one of several Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) entities operating out of the Montego Bay Free Zone. (File photo)

Montego Bay Tops In Business Process Outsourcing

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing, Hon. Dr. Morais Guy (2nd right), shares in conversation with (from left): Lecturer in Urban and Regional Planning and Land Resource Management at the University of Technology (UTech), Dr. Earl Bailey (left); Mayor of May Pen and Chairman of the Clarendon Parish Council, Scean Barnswell; Deputy Resident Representative for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Dr. Elsie Laurence-Chounoune; and United Nations Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, Arun Kashyap. Occasion was the launch of phase two of the Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme (PSUP) on Friday (Feb. 20), at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston.

Phase Two of Slum Upgrading Programme Launched

Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Hon. Phillip Paulwell, addressing the groundbreaking ceremony for expansion of the Wigton Windfarm (Wigton lll) in Manchester on Friday (Feb. 20)

Wigton expansion to save over $200 million in annual oil imports

11 years ago Budget 2015/2016Health & Wellness

$1.71 Billion Allocated to Health Services Improvement Project

The Ministry of Health is to spend $1.71 billion under the Health Services Improvement Project, so as to facilitate improved service delivery in the public health system. This is contained in the 2015/16 Estimates of Expenditure, tabled in the House of Representatives on February 19 by Minister of Finance and Planning, Dr. the Hon. Peter Phillips. The targets for the...

11 years ago Budget 2015/2016Education

Technology Project Receives $950 Million

In a move to further boost technology in education, the Government has allocated more than $950 million for the Technology Infrastructure and Support Services programme. Under the initiative, being implemented by the E-Learning Project, $250 million will go to the Ministry of Education for computer support services and staff training, while $700 million is earmarked for the Tablets in School...

11 years ago Budget 2015/2016Finance & Public ServiceParliament

$51 Million Set Aside for Govt’s E-Procurement System

A sum of $51 million has been allocated in the 2015/16 Estimates of Expenditure, now before Parliament, to continue development of the Electronic Government Procurement system. The project, which commenced in 2011, is intended to strengthen the efficiency and quality of Jamaica’s public procurement process. This, through development of an electronic system for government procuring and tendering agencies and suppliers,...

11 years ago Agriculture

Trelawny Produced 95,742 Metric Tonnes of Crops in 2014

President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Senator Norman Grant, is hailing the resilience of Trelawny’s farmers, noting that despite drought they produced over 95,000 metric tonnes of produce last year, contributing 15.5 per cent of the country’s domestic crop production. He said the parish is ranked third in domestic production behind Manchester and St. Elizabeth. “Let me celebrate the...

11 years ago Budget 2015/2016Parliament

$8.6 Million Earmarked for Project to Boost ICT/BPO Industry

An allocation of $8.6 million has been earmarked in the 2015/16 Estimates of Expenditure, currently before Parliament, to commence development of the institutional and regulatory framework for Jamaica’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT)/Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry. The initiative aims to improve the sector’s competitiveness, and sustained growth. Envisaged targets include: development of a national ICT/BPO Policy; establishing an information...

11 years ago Finance & Public Service

$39.4 Million Allocated For Business Tax Reform Project

The project, being implemented by Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ), aims to improve the regulatory, institutional, and administrative framework for business taxation, by reforming the tax appeal process and legislative framework. Work commenced in February 2014, and it is envisaged that when completed in 2016, the project will facilitate simplification of the business tax process by customizing the tax design and...

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Child Development Agency (CDA), Rosalee Gage-Grey, addresses an appreciation and handing over ceremony for outgoing, and incoming members of the Children’s Advisory Panel (CAP), held on Friday (February 20), at the Pollyanna Restaurant in Kingston.

11 years ago Culture

New Children’s Advisory Panel Urged to Continue Advocacy

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Child Development Agency (CDA), Rosalee Gage-Grey, has charged the new members of the Children’s Advisory Panel (CAP) to carry on the excellent work of their predecessors in advocating on behalf of the nation’s children. She issued the charge at a function held yesterday (Feb. 20) to welcome the new panel and express appreciation to...