The Economic Growth Council (EGC) will be placing particular focus on developing measures to improve national security and the business environment. This was disclosed by the entity’s Chairman, Michael Lee-Chin, while delivering the first quarterly report covering the period October to December 2016, at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on January 26. He said that preserving the nation’s...

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...

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...

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...