The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) will be conducting a household expenditure survey (HES) from February 6, 2017 to February 2018 to obtain information on the goods and services purchased by private households. This is being done in order to determine the general pattern of expenditure throughout the economy. Project Manager for the HES, Shelly-Ann Chambers, told JIS News that...

The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), in collaboration with the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), is hosting a three-day conference looking at the potential of population planning in achieving Jamaica’s and the region’s sustainable development goals. The Department of Sociology, Social Work and Psychology at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona; the Planning...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz, says addressing climate change is a critical priority of the Government as part of the economic growth strategy. “We have to integrate climate change with the economic path that we are on in terms of economic growth and job creation and make sure that we...

Students, public sector workers and various professionals are to benefit from the staging of the Population Planning for Development in Jamaica conference from January 25 to 27 at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston. The three-day event will focus on human population issues in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean. Targeted are students from tertiary-level institutions; sixth-form students particularly those...

Human population issues in Jamaica will be the focus of the Population Planning for Development in Jamaica Conference slated for January 25 to 27 at the Jamaica Conference Centre, in downtown Kingston. Themed: ‘Theory, Practice and Policy for the Post 2015 Sustainable Development Agenda’, the event will open at 9:00 a.m., with keynote speaker being former Prime Minister of Jamaica,...

The National Policy on Poverty and National Poverty Reduction Programme together constitute a responsive instrument of the Government of Jamaica to the need to institute a systematic and accountable framework to implement, coordinate, and monitor measures to address poverty and vulnerability. These represent a move to providing a focal point for coordinating poverty programmes and to address the void existing...

Former Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Edward Seaga, has received the inaugural Consular Corps of Jamaica Global Achievement Award in recognition of his contribution to national development. The award was presented during a special banquet to honour Mr. Seaga, which was jointly hosted by the Consular and Diplomatic Corps of Jamaica at the Spanish Court Hotel in New Kingston on...