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Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange (centre), listens to a comment from OAS Country Representative in Kingston, Jeanelle Van Glaanenweygel (second right) at the opening of a three-day workshop on ‘Effective Heritage Inventories and the National Registers’ at The Courtleigh Hotel and Suites in New Kingston on Tuesday (September 18). Also partcipating in the discussion (from left) are Technical Consultant, Coherit Associates LLC, Angela Labrador; Technical Project Manager (Cultural Heritage), OAS, Celia Toppin; and Technical Consultant, Coherit Associates LLC, Neil Silberman.

Jamaica Developing National Register of Cultural Places and Objects

The Government is receiving expertise from the Organization of American States (OAS) in developing a national register of cultural heritage places and objects. A team from the organisation is participating in a three-day workshop to provide training to local personnel....

Beaches Coordinator at National Environment & Planning Agency (NEPA), Chalene Roye-Myrie gives details about the recently launched ‘Jamaica Beach Guide’, a webpage designed by the agency to provide information on the various public beaches across the island, at a JIS Think Tank.

NEPA Launches Jamaica Beach Guide

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz, looks at some of the plastic products that the Government will ban starting January 2019. The Minister announced a ban on the importation, manufacturing, distribution and use of specific categories of plastics during a press conference at Jamaica House on Monday (September 17). These items include single-use plastic carrier/shopping bags; expanded polystyrene foam, commonly referred to as styrofoam; and plastic drinking straws.

Gov’t Bans Single-Use Plastic Bags, Plastic Straws and Polystyrene

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Karl Samuda (right), shares with proud new property owners after they were presented with keys to their houses and letters of possession for serviced lots during a handover ceremony for the Longville Vista and Longville Court housing developments in Clarendon on Wednesday (September 12). Also pictured (from left) are new Chairman of the National Housing Trust (NHT), Lennox Channer; and Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw.

Fifty NHT Beneficiaries Become New Property Owners

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz, addressing today’s (September 12) post-Cabinet press briefing, held at Jamaica House in St. Andrew.

Government Working to Alleviate Problems Faced by Commuting Public

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz (second right), and Member of Parliament for East Rural St. Andrew, the Most Hon. Juliet Holness (right), speak with philanthropist and businessman, Michael Lee-Chin, who has donated $60 million to the industry that will be made available to needy coffee farmers. Occasion was a media briefing regarding the coffee industry at the New Kingston offices of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, on Monday (September 10).

7 years ago AgricultureEconomic Growth & Infrastructure Development

Help for Coffee Farmers

Small coffee farmers who have been severely affected by the ongoing decline in the industry will now have access to $60 million, which has been donated by philanthropist and businessman, Michael Lee-Chin and his family. The money, being made available through the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), will assist the neediest of the 7,000 registered coffee farmers. The announcement was...

7 years ago DevelopmentEconomic Growth & Infrastructure DevelopmentEducation

Training For Unattached Youth at Renovated Red Hills Skills Centre

The Red Hills Skills Training Centre in St. Andrew has been renovated at a cost of $3 million and will now offer unattached youth four skill-based courses through partnership with the HEART Trust/NTA. The refurbishing was undertaken through the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), which provides members of Parliament with financial resources to execute approved social and economic programmes within their...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz (second left), speaking with (from left) Office Head United Nations (UN) Environment, Caribbean Office, Vincent Sweeney; Environmental Analyst, Ministry of Environment in Brazil, Juliana Guedes Bezerra; and Chief Executive Officer, National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), Peter Knight. Occasion was the opening of a three-day workshop for the Second Technical Meeting of the Caribbean Working Group on Environmental Indicators of the Latin American and Caribbean Initiative for Sustainable Development (ILAC) at The Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston on Tuesday (September 4).

7 years ago Economic Growth & Infrastructure Development

Gov’t to Announce Measures to Address Plastic Pollution at G7 Meeting

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz, says the Government will announce measures to address plastic pollution at a meeting of G7 Environment, Energy and Oceans Ministers in Canada later this month. Speaking at the opening of a regional environmental workshop at The Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston on Tuesday (September...

7 years ago AgricultureEconomic Growth & Infrastructure DevelopmentEnvironment

Farmers Urged Not To Take Law into Their Hands

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture, and Fisheries, Hon. J.C. Hutchinson, has emphasised the importance of farmers working with the police in the fight against praedial larceny. He also encouraged the farmers to report farm theft to the police, while urging them not to take the law into their own hands. “Report them quietly to the...

Economic Growth Council (EGC) Chairman, Michael Lee-Chin (right), listens as Executive Director, Senator Aubyn Hill, responds to questions from journalists during the EGC’s Sixth Quarterly Report at Jamaica House on Thursday (August 23).

7 years ago Economic Growth & Infrastructure Development

EGC Chairman Welcomes Positive Economic Indicators

Economic Growth Council (EGC) Chairman, Michael Lee-Chin, has welcomed several key positive economic indicators recorded at the end of the April to June 2018 quarter. Notable among these, he says, are an estimated 1.8 per cent economic growth; Tax Administration Jamaica’s $79.9 billion revenue intake, which he notes is 9.2 per cent above the $73.2 billion target; and further reduction...

Chairman, HEART Trust/NTA, Edward Gabbidon (left), converses with the agency’s Managing Director, Dr. Janet Dyer (centre); and Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, E-Media Interactive Group, Tyrone Wilson (right). The occasion was HEART Trust/NTA’s World Entrepreneurs’ Day symposium and workshop, which was held at The Knutsford Court Hotel, New Kingston, on August 21 under the theme ‘Rise on the Heels of Success’.

7 years ago Economic Growth & Infrastructure DevelopmentInformationVision 2030Youth

HEART Trust’s Reassignment to OPM Consistent with Growth Agenda

Chairman, HEART Trust/NTA, Edward Gabbidon, says the strategic placing of the Agency at the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) is in line with the country’s growth agenda. “Placing HEART at the OPM is strategically in line with our 2030 vision and [the] goal is to promote entrepreneurships, start-ups and an option to spur economic growth. It is for this...

Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) Director General, Dr. Wayne Henry (centre), addresses journalists during the PIOJ’s recent quarterly media briefing at the agency’s head office in New Kingston. Listening (from left) are: Senior Director for the PIOJ’s Economic Planning, Research and Policy Division, James Stewart; and Economic Development Specialist in the PIOJ’s Vision 2030 Jamaica Secretariat, Travis Reid.

7 years ago Economic Growth & Infrastructure DevelopmentVision 2030

Medium Term Socio-Economic Policy Framework to be Completed By Sept.

Work on the fourth Medium Term Socio-Economic Policy Framework (MTF) under the country’s long-term National Development Plan – Vision 2030 Jamaica – is scheduled for completion in September. According to Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Dr. Wayne Henry, the latest Framework, covering the period 2018 to 2021, is in the final stages of preparation. He was...