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Remittances in excess of US$36 million have accrued to the Jamaican economy over the last three years, through the Jamaica-United States (US) Overseas Employment Programme, now in its 60th year. The programme, which is administered by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, now accounts for more than 8,000 farm workers, many of whom have been upgraded from ordinary workers...

Grenadian Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Mitchell has said that global changes had demonstrated that science and technology and innovation has become central to improving the economic performance of the region as well as the social well being of its people. Dr. Mitchell was delivering the keynote address at the University of the West Indies' 'Research Day' activities at the Mona...

Minister of Development, Dr. Paul Robertson, has commended the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) for using job creation as a basis for rewarding businesses. Dr. Robertson made the statement at the PSOJ Job Creation Awards Ceremony, at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston, on Tuesday (Nov. 26). "For too long", he said, "job creation has been seen as primarily...