Director of the Rent Assessment Board, Shenese Headlam, is encouraging landlords and tenants to exercise diligence when negotiating rental arrangements. “Tenants and landlords should… ensure that a written agreement is [drafted] because sometimes things that were not initially agreed on are brought into play. Both persons should understand what the contract is saying and a formal agreement made before the...

The Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF) is encouraging parents, guardians and community members to monitor the activities of adolescents while schools are on holidays. This in light of reported increases in the registration of teenaged pregnant girls and adolescent mothers at the institution’s centres at the conclusion of these periods, according to Director of Field Operations, Beverley Martin Berry....

President of the Business Process Industry Association of Jamaica (BPIAJ), Gloria Henry, has emphasised the importance of upskilling workers within the sector to respond to the increasing technological demands of the marketplace. Speaking with JIS News, Ms. Henry noted that the business process industry incorporates 80 per cent customer service; 18 per cent knowledge process, which includes shared services; and...

Public-sector workers are poised to receive new and improved benefits through the Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA). Speaking at a JIS Think Tank at the agency’s regional office in Montego Bay, St. James, on September 9, President of the JCSA, O'Neil Grant, said the Association aims to launch two products for the benefit of members before the end of the...

The Development Bank of Jamaica’s (DBJ) Venture Capital Unit will host the second in a series of training workshops for Business Services Intermediaries (BSIs) on September 18 at the Spanish Court Hotel in New Kingston. Discussions will focus on the topic “Introduction to Equity Financing”. The workshop is geared towards business enablers, including consultants and professionals, who facilitate, train and...

The Jamaican Language Unit at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, with be leading national conversation on the appropriate positioning of the Jamaican language in official spaces. The discussion, under the slogan ‘Make Jamaican Official… Just Do it’, is the unit’s contribution to the 100 days of activities planned to celebrate the centenary anniversary of the birth of...

President of the Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA), O’Neil Grant, has suggested that public-sector workers should be given some minimum hours of training per year, enabling them to become more valuable to their organisations. Speaking at a JIS Think Tank, at the agency’s Montego Bay Regional Office in St. James on September 9, Mr. Grant said this would inevitably lead...