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Chairman of the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica (EFJ), Professor Dale Webber (left), and Christopher Collins of the St. Elizabeth Agricultural Cooperative Society, sign documents for grant funding to undertake a greenhouse project. Looking on (from left, standing) are: Programme Manager, Inter-American Development Bank, Anaitée Mills; Chief Technical Director, Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Lt. Col. Oral Khan; and Myrtle Myers Hall from the St. Elizabeth Agricultural Cooperative Society. The group was one of 18 awarded grants totalling $84.92 million to implement climate change adaptation and resilience-building projects, during a ceremony at The Knutsford Court Hotel on January 30. The grants were provided by the EFJ from the Special Climate Change Adaptation Fund on behalf of the Adaptation Programme and Financing Mechanism of the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (AP&FM PPCR).

18 Community Projects Receive $84. 92 Million in Grants

Eighteen community-based organisations and civil society groups have been awarded grants totalling $84.92 million to implement climate change adaptation and resilience-building projects across the island. The grant awards, of up to $5 million each, were provided by the Environmental Foundation...

Economic Growth Council (EGC) Chairman, Michael Lee-Chin (at podium), addresses its quarterly briefing on January 26 at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. Seated (from left) are: EGC Deputy Chairman, Ambassador Nigel Clarke; and members, Adam Stewart and Pat Ramsay.

Economic Growth Council Engages Service of Bonds Expert

Economic Growth Council (EGC) Deputy Chairman, Ambassador Dr. Nigel Clarke (left), addresses the EGC’s quarterly briefing at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on January 26. At right is EGC member, Adam Stewart.

EGC Endorses Public Sector Transformation

Economic Growth Council (EGC) member, Adam Stewart (left), addresses a media briefing at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Thursday, January 26. Listening is EGC Deputy Chairman, Ambassador Nigel Clarke.

US$3 Billion Investment to Create Tens of Thousands of New Jobs

Economic Growth Council (EGC) Chairman, Michael Lee-Chin (left), addresses Thursday’s (January 26) quarterly media briefing at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. Seated (from left) are EGC Deputy Chairman, Ambassador Nigel Clarke; and members, Adam Stewart and Pat Ramsay.

EGC Focused on Improving National Security and the Business Environment

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz.

9 years ago Economic Growth & Infrastructure Development

12 Additional Areas to be Declared Forest Reserves

Twelve additional areas of forests, totalling 1,862.74 hectares, are to be declared as forest reserves. This follows approval of the Forest Reserves Orders during Tuesday’s (Jan. 24) sitting of the House of Representatives. Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz, who tabled the Orders, said providing legal protection of forested areas through...

9 years ago Economic Growth & Infrastructure Development

STATIN Urges Persons to Support Household Expenditure Survey

The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) is urging persons to support its household expenditure survey (HES), as information obtained will be strictly confidential. “All of our interviewers and all our employees signed an oath of confidentiality and we take that oath seriously, so we want to reassure Jamaicans that the information that they provide is confidential under the Statistics Act...

9 years ago Economic Growth & Infrastructure Development

STATIN to Conduct Household Expenditure Survey

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...

Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Sub-Regional Office of the Caribbean, Alison Drayton (second left), greets former Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Most Hon. Edward Seaga (right), following the opening ceremony for a Population Planning for Development in Jamaica conference, on January 25 at the Jamaica Conference Centre. Others (from left) are: Senior Fellow in the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), Dr. Godfrey St. Bernard; Director General of the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), Carol Coy; and University Director, SALISES, Professor Patrick Watson. The three-day conference is being staged under the theme: ‘Theory, Practice and Policy for the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agendas’.

9 years ago Economic Growth & Infrastructure Development

STATIN Hosts Three-Day Population Conference

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 (centre), looks through a document during the opening ceremony for a five-day training workshop for the Climate Change Focal Point Network at the Altamont Court Hotel in Kingston on January 23. Others (from left) are: Principal Director, Climate Change Division, Una May Gordon; and Consultant, German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation (GIZ), Albert Eberhardt.

9 years ago Economic Growth & Infrastructure Development

Addressing Climate Change a Priority – Minister Vaz

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...

9 years ago Economic Growth & Infrastructure Development

Three-day Population Conference Gets Underway Wednesday

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...

9 years ago Economic Growth & Infrastructure Development

Population Issues to be Discussed at Conference January 25-27

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,...