Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing, agriculture, and service sectors, are to benefit from this year’s staging of the National Quality Awards (NQA). The programme, a brainchild of the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), was implemented to recognise and reward companies that have demonstrated application of standards and quality in their operations. To be eligible for the programme,...

Jamaicans will soon be held financially responsible for correcting activities that pollute the environment under the ‘Polluter Pays’ principle. Acting Chief Technical Director of the Policy, Planning and Evaluation Division of the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Gillian Guthrie, told JIS News that the principle will be incorporated in all environmental policies and legislation. It emerged from the...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon Nigel Clarke, is crediting Jamaica’s economic recovery from the coronavirus (COVID-19) to the prudent fiscal measures implemented by the Government. The Minister, who was opening the 2022/23 Budget Debate on Tuesday (March 8) said that the buffers put in place prior to the pandemic, including the strategic decision to increase...

The Government is to undertake construction of a replacement bridge located on the Troy to Oxford main road on the Trelawny/Manchester border in the 2022/23 fiscal year. Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Everald Warmington, made the disclosure during a tour of South Trelawny on Wednesday, March 9. The bridge collapsed in August...

The Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation has received positive feedback from the public consultations held on the Emissions Policy Framework and the updated Climate Change Policy Framework for Jamaica. The series of four public sessions ended on February 22 with the staging of a virtual town hall. Speaking with JIS News recently, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry...

The National Works Agency (NWA) will be rehabilitating the Natural Bridge in Troja, St. Catherine, in two Phases, at a cost of $318 million, with $160 million being spent in Phase 1. Making the disclosure following a tour of several roads in St. Catherine North East, on February 24, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation (Water, Environment and Climate Change), Senator the Hon. Matthew Samuda (left), and Commissioner of Mines in the Mines and Geology Division of the Ministry of Transport and Mining, Roy Nicholson (right), listen as Senior Manager of the Environmental Sub-Division of the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), Richard...