Superintendent of Pilotage at the Port Authority of Jamaica, Dr. Hortense Ross-Innerarity, is calling for continued collaboration between governments and the shipping community to develop and support initiatives to improve the welfare of seafarers. She said it is important to continue the conversation to engender a culture of awareness, inclusion, acceptance, and recognition of all seafarers, irrespective of gender, nationality,...

The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) is offering discounts at three of its properties as part of its Hero’s Welcome promotion. which runs until Saturday, October 30. Acting Marketing Manager, UDC, Jodi-Ann Reid, told JIS News that the promotion is UDC’s way of “celebrating our heroes, in particular front-line workers or ordinary Jamaicans who are playing their role in the fight...

The Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO) continues to assist local small business owners to access export markets for their products. JAMPRO President, Diane Edwards, noted that the agency has been successful in sourcing markets in the United States (US) for cosmetics producers. “We took a group of cosmetics manufacturers to Atlanta, found them distributors, and they are rolling out their business...

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Road Jockey, a Montego Bay based food delivery service, Rajiv Maragh, says the company intends to eventually, get into the CARICOM market. “We feel like the Caribbean deserves the service that the rest of the world gets. We are really striving to just [improve] what we have, grow and just keep expanding as much as...

A total of 404 local economic initiatives (LEIs) have benefited from business support services provided under the Local Economic Development Support Programme. This resulted in the generation of jobs for 1,659 persons, inclusive of 189 youth. A total of 840 of these persons gained full-time employment, 542 were employed part-time, while 277 were engaged seasonally. This is contained in the...

The Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation will be undertaking repairs to road infrastructure in St. Ann at an estimated cost of more than $400 million. Over $200 million will be spent to carry out works on several roads, drains and bridges, with priority attention to be given to roadways such as Hampstead to Mount Arrarat, Priory to Bamboo,...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says Jamaica’s business process outsourcing (BPO) industry has recorded a 15 per cent increase in employment, despite the economic fallout resulting from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.  Speaking during the opening of the IBEX BPO facility at the G-Tech Park in Portmore, St. Catherine on Friday (July 23), Mr. Holness said approximately 44,000 persons were employed across the sector as at June 2021, relative to 38,400 for the corresponding period last year.     ...