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Jamaica Largely Completes its Action Plan Agreed with FATF

The Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”) FATF today at its February 2024 Plenary meeting in Paris, approved for their America’s Joint Group to conduct an on-site visit to Jamaica to assess the effectiveness and sustainability of the measures the country...

Chief Executive Officer of the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), Peter Knight (left), and Acting Communications Manager at the Early Childhood Commission, Sophia Stewart (right), present environmental learning aids to educator at Beaming Brite Sparks Basic School, Veronica Fairclough. The handover ceremony was held at NEPAS’s Caledonia offices in Kingston on Friday (February 23).

PHOTOS: NEPA Presents Environmental Learning Aids to Early Childhood Institutions

President of the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica, Keith Duncan, inspects recruits trained under the Jamaica National Service Corps (JNSC), at the passing out parade held at the Polo Grounds, Up Park Camp in Kingston on Friday (February 23).

PHOTOS: JNSC Passing Out Parade

Director General, Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Dr. Wayne Henry, speaks during a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signing ceremony between the PIOJ and the HEART/NSTA Trust. The signing took place the PIOJ’s Oxford Road offices in St. Andrew on Friday (February 23).

HEART/NSTA Trust and PIOJ Sign MoU to Empower Residents in Several Communities

Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with oversight for Skills and Digital Transformation, Senator Dr. the Hon. Dana Morris Dixon, delivers the keynote address during the launch of a free wi-fi hotspot in Waterford, St. Catherine, on Thursday (February 22).

Students Encouraged to Build Technology Skills

The Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCFJ) headquarters in Kingston

2 years ago Foreign AffairsGender Affairs

Charity Ball to Assist Adolescent Mothers

Plans are progressing for a Charity Ball to raise funds to assist adolescent mothers to be reintegrated into the school system. The event, scheduled to take place on May 18 at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston, is being organised by the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF), an agency of the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport....

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, tables the 2024/25 Estimates of Expenditure in the House of Representatives on Thursday (February 15). At left is Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang.

2 years ago Finance & Public Service

Gov’t Allocates $24.5 Billion to Support New Projects under PIMS

The Government has allocated $24.5 billion to support new projects under the Public Investment Management System (PIMS). Details of the provision are outlined in the 2024/25 Estimates of Expenditure, tabled in the House of Representatives by Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, on February 15. During the upcoming fiscal year, the contingency allocation will...

Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Deputy Governor, Natalie Haynes.

2 years ago Finance & Public Service

New Polymer Currency Accounts for 60 Per Cent of Notes in Circulation

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) is reporting that 60 per cent of the notes in circulation are polymer currency. “When we look at the notes in circulation, the number of pieces, it is about 40 per cent that are the old notes. So, it is a 60:40 ratio. We are no longer issuing old notes since last year November,” Deputy...

2 years ago CommunityDevelopment

Polling Stations Open at 7:00 a.m. on Election Day, February 26

Persons who wish to cast their ballots in the Local Government Elections on Monday, February 26, can do so between 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Director of Elections, Glasspole Brown, told JIS News that some 6,726 polling stations will be open across the island to accommodate the thousands of Jamaicans who intend to exercise their franchise. “What we would like...

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Hon. Floyd Green.

2 years ago AgricultureFisheriesMining

Descendants of Former Sugar Workers at Hampden Get Letters of Possession

The Government has made letters of possession available for descendants of former sugar workers to give them security of tenure on the old Hampden sugarcane lands in Trelawny. Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Hon. Floyd Green, says the gesture will now enable the beneficiaries to build on the lands free of hassle and any worry that they could be...

A student from one of the previous training sessions, hosted under the National Environment and Planning Agency’s (NEPA) National Schools Environment Club Programme, displays paraphernalia provided by the entity.

2 years ago EducationEnvironmentYouth

NEPA Partnering with UNICEF to Develop Environmental Stewards

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is partnering with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to host a one-day seminar aimed at empowering students to become better environmental stewards. This collaboration will see pupils from 15 secondary schools across the Ministry of Education and Youth’s Region 3, converging on the grounds of Knox College in Spaulding, Clarendon, on Thursday,...

Some of the 50 new Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) buses, which arrived in the island last August.

2 years ago Transport

Gov’t Investing More Than $2.63 Billion to Boost JUTC Fleet

The Government of Jamaica will be investing more than $2.63 billion to purchase buses to boost the Jamaica Urban Transport Company’s (JCTU) fleet. As contained in the 2024/25 Estimates of Expenditure, tabled recently in the House of Representatives, a total of 100 compressed natural gas (CNG)-fuelled buses will be acquired. The procurement process commenced in December 2023, with the placement...