The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) is to host public and private consultations soon, on a draft of its electrical and electronic (e-waste) regulations. When signed into the law, the regulations will require traders of computers, printers, televisions, mobile phones and refrigerators to take them back at end-of-life and dispose of them in an environmentally sound manner. Senior Investigator...

School leaders from Jamaica and eight other countries across the globe will converge in Kingston from March 7 to 8 for the third International Conference on Educational Leadership and Management. The two-day event, under the theme ‘Educational Leadership for Social Justice: Policy, Practice, Community’, will be held at The Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston. It is being organised by...

The Government is reporting that “good progress” has been made in negotiating the repurchase of the Venezuelan entity, PDV Caribe’ 49 per cent stake in State refinery, Petrojam. Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister, Senator the Hon. Kamina Johnson Smith, who heads Jamaica’s negotiating team, indicated that PDV accepted a settlement price offer agreed on by the parties, following “serious”...

Science Officer at the Montego Bay Marine Park, Chris May, is imploring residents of the city to desist from using wetland areas as dumping sites for solid waste. The appeal comes in light of the Marine Park’s removal of nearly 1,200 pounds of garbage from mangroves along Howard Cooke Boulevard and the Freeport main road on World Wetlands Day, February...

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, is warning that persons who refuse to destroy mosquito breeding sites on their property could face penalties. He said there is law that allows for fines on individuals or business entities that reject warnings to eradicate such areas on their premises. “I believe that the time has come, and we need to...

Representatives from the Ministry of Labour and Social Security and their United States (US) counterparts are in discussion to increase the number of participants under the overseas hospitality programme. This was disclosed by Portfolio Minister, Hon. Shahine Robinson, during an interview with JIS News recently. “Last summer, a team led by myself and State Minister (Zavia) Mayne went to Washington...

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of the Caribbean (ICAC) is calling for regional heads of government to adopt the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS). These are a set of accounting principles issued by the IPSAS Board for use by public-sector entities around the world in the preparation of financial statements. “The accounting profession is very much bent on the...