Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Dr. Wayne Henry, is reporting notable gains under the National Development Plan (NDP) – Vision 2030 Jamaica for the Medium-Term Framework (MTF) period 2015 to 2018. The MTF is the main mechanism for translating Vision 2030 Jamaica's long-term national goals and outcomes into action. Dr. Henry, who was addressing the recent...

The Meteorological Service of Jamaica (Met Service), on Friday (May 31), launched the 2019 renewal of its Weather, Climate and Climate Change Quiz Competition. The biennial event, which is being staged for the third time, is open to preparatory and primary school students who face-off in a one-day contest to test their knowledge of weather and climate-related topics. Students from...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, is assuring that as the economy grows, civil servants will be duly compensated for their sacrifices towards achieving this. “The guarantee that I give you… from the political directorate… is that as the economy improves and increases, you must get your fair share of that increase,” the Prime Minister said. He was speaking...

Five months after the ban on styrofoam and single-use plastic bags was implemented in Jamaica, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz, is reporting more than 90 per cent support for the initiative. “We, in this Administration, have taken the bold step and, thankfully, the citizenry has supported it. I don’t know...

The Prime Minister says that a strategic transformation of the country's economic space to grow the economy will have a positive impact on civil servants. Prime Minister Holness was speaking yesterday (May 30) at the 100th annual meeting of the Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA) at Jacisera Park in St. Andrew. “The strategy that we are now employing is to...

Twenty communities across the island have been selected to participate in the pretest of the Census 2021 questionnaire exercise, to be administered by the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN). The communities are Denham Town in Kingston; Half-Way Tree, Norbrook and Bull Bay in St. Andrew; Fellowship, Portland; Islington, St. Mary; Drax Hall and Brown’s Town, St. Ann; Falmouth, Trelawny; Flankers...

The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) is conducting a Listing of Dwellings Exercise, which is aimed at updating the count of dwellings in Jamaica between censuses. The exercise provides the sampling frame for the selection of households to be included in the Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions, the Labour Force Survey, among others. Acting Director of the Research, Design and...