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Finance and Public Service Minister, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke (left), makes a point at a town hall meeting hosted by the Finance Ministry at the Karl Hendrickson Auditorium, Jamaica College, St. Andrew on Friday (Sept. 21). Listening (from second left) are: Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC) Co-chairman, Keith Duncan; Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) Governor, Brian Wynter; and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Mission Chief to Jamaica, Dr. Uma Ramakrishnan.

Economic Reform Programme Spurring Improved Living Standards – Dr. Clarke

Finance and Public Service Minister, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, says the Economic Reform Programme’s (ERP) successful implementation has enabled the Government to double expenditure aimed at improving the standard of living in Jamaica. He noted that allocations to improve...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (centre), speaks at a Government of Jamaica and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Mission Review press conference at the Office of the Prime Minister today (September 21). Listening keenly are Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke (right); and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Mission Chief to Jamaica, Dr. Uma Ramakrishnan.

Prime Minister Says Economy Has Progressed Under ERP

Vaz Tells G7 Leaders Time for Talk on Climate Change Long Past and Calls for Innovation In Financing for Resilience Projects

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

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.

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

Starting January 1, 2019, the Government will be imposing a ban on the importation, manufacture, distribution and use of specific categories of plastic packaging materials. These include single-use plastic carrier/shopping bags; expanded polystyrene foam, commonly referred to as styrofoam; and plastic drinking straws. Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz, who made...

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.

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Fifty NHT Beneficiaries Become New Property Owners

Fifty National Housing Trust (NHT) beneficiaries were presented with keys to their homes or letters of possession to serviced lots at Longville Vista and Longville Court in Clarendon on Wednesday (September 12). The developments, which comprise a total of 127 new housing solutions, include 43 studios and 46 serviced lots in Longville Vista; and 38 semi-detached studio units in Longville...

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.

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Government Working to Alleviate Problems Faced by Commuting Public

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz, says the Government is working to alleviate some of the problems being faced by the commuting public as a result of ongoing road works in sections of the Corporate Area. “We understand and we are working assiduously to try and better it. It won’t be...

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...

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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).

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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...