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Kingston has great potential for a very bright future, particularly Downtown Kingston, which offers vast, untapped potential for commercial activity as well as residential accommodation. This view was expressed by, Aubyn Hill, Group Managing Director for the National Commercial Bank and Director of the Kingston City Centre Improvement Company (KCIC), at a general forum at the Hilton Kingston Hotel on...

The community of Exchange in St. Ann has a new postal agency, which was constructed at a cost of $1.1 million. The facility, a combined effort of the wider community, started in 1998, when ground was broken by the former member of parliament for the area, Danny Melville, after the closure of the previous agency, and citizens had to travel...

Minister of Development in the Office of the Prime Minister, Dr. Paul Robertson, said today that Jamaica and the rest of the Caribbean was facing the challenge of positioning themselves in a fiercely competitive environment, driven by liberalized trade and investment regimes. He pointed out that although the Government had taken steps to strengthen legislation or introduce new ones, modernize...

Government is spearheading legislation aimed at revising the incentive scheme regimes, to consolidate and simplifying present systems and to encourage greater private sector involvement in economic development. Making the announcement on Tuesday (Feb. 4), Minister of Development, Dr. Paul Robertson, said that discussions were now taking place on issues dealing with corporate income tax rate and incentives to support infrastructure...

Minister of Development, Dr. Paul Robertson, on Friday (Nov. 29), officially launched the 2003 line of locally-manufactured vehicles known as "the Island Cruiser" in Savanna-La-Mar, Westmoreland. The four new vehicles manufactured in Western Jamaica by Excel Motors Limited, were unveiled to the public by Dr. Robertson. The vehicles boast strong fiber-glass material manufactured here, using Jamaican labor, and fitted with imported...