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Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. the Hon. Peter Phillips (2nd left), shares a light conversation with (from left): Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) Governor, Brian Wynter; International Monetary Fund (IMF) Mission Team Chief to Jamaica, Jan Kees Martijn; and IMF Resident Representative in Jamaica, Dr. Bert van Selm, during Thursday’s (August 22) media briefing, jointly hosted by the Finance Ministry and the Mission, in Kingston. Details of the country’s just concluded first quarter performance review, under the four-year IMF Extended Fund Facility (EFF), were outlined.

Finance Ministry Pushes Ahead with Economic Reform Programme

Significant implementation of the government’s Economic Reform Programme (ERP), leading to a new four-year agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), dominated activities undertaken by the Ministry of Finance and Planning during 2013. The ERP’s provisions are consistent with the...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller (at podium), delivering the keynote address at Thursday’s (Sept. 12), Economic Reform Programme (ERP) stakeholders conference, hosted by the Ministry of Finance and Planning at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston, under the theme: “Jamaica’s Economic Programme – Going for Growth, Staying the Course, Transforming the Economy”. Also pictured are: Minister with Responsibility for Information, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer (left, seated); and Co-Chairmen, Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC), Richard Byles (2nd right); and Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) Governor, Brian Wynter.

Economic Reform Programme Central to Reducing Debt and Spurring Growth

Minister of Youth & Culture, the Hon. Lisa Hanna.

Minister of Youth and Culture’s Remarks at the 2014 Maroon Celebration

President of the Jamaica Government Pensioners Association, Charles Jones (right), hugs retired teacher of English and remedial reading specialist, Iris Burtess Salmon, during the association’s 47th annual general meeting, held at the Knutsford Court Hotel in Kingston, on August 14. During the event, Mrs. Burtess Salmon was recognised for her invaluable service to the association.

Vulnerable Groups Benefit from Social Protection Initiatives

Students of the Wilsons Run Primary School in Trelawny, perform a cultural item during Friday's (April 26) handing over ceremony for newly refurbished institution which was renovated by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) at a cost of $31.4 million under its Community Investment Project (CIP), with funding jointly provided by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and residents of the community.

JSIF Empowering Young People and Communities

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Derrick Kellier (right), addressing the first batch of farm workers to be dispatched for 2013 to Canada, under the Ministry’s Overseas Employment Programme, on January 2, at East Street in Kingston. The 172 workers will leave the island on January 3, 2013 on a Chartered flight. (FILE)

12 years ago Year in Review 2013

More Jobs for Jamaicans Overseas in 2013

Job creation was high on the agenda of the Government during 2013, with a number of employment opportunities being provided for Jamaicans, particularly overseas. MORE JOBS FOR JAMAICANS ABROAD The beginning of the year saw the first batch of farm workers being sent off to Canada under the Ministry of Labour and Social Security’s Overseas Employment Programme. The 172 workers,...

Chairman, National Leadership Prayer Breakfast Committee (NLPBC), Rev. Dr. Stevenson Samuels (2nd left), has a laugh with Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Victoria Mutual Building Society (VMBS), Peter Reid (right), while Vice Chairman, NLPBC, Bishop Stanley Clarke (left), and Senior Vice President at VMBS, Keri-Gaye Brown, share the moment. Occasion was a press conference held on January 7 at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston, to launch the 2014 National Leadership Prayer Breakfast.

12 years ago Office of the Prime Minister

Jamaicans Invited to Participate in Week of Prayer

The National Leadership Prayer Breakfast Committee (NLPBC) will be staging a National Week of Prayer, as part of efforts to encourage Jamaicans to pray about issues affecting their lives. Dubbed ‘Prayer Blitz’, the week will start on January 9 and culminate with the 34th staging of the National Leadership Prayer Breakfast (NLPB) scheduled for Thursday, January 16. Throughout the week,...

Executive Director of the National Council on Education, Merris Murray.

12 years ago Education

NCE to Train School Boards in St. Elizabeth and Manchester

The National Council on Education (NCE) will, this month, begin training persons appointed to school boards in Region 5, which comprises the parishes of St. Elizabeth and Manchester. Four training workshops, financed through the Education System Transformation Programme (ESTP), are scheduled to be held on January 15, 16, 22 and 23, as the NCE continues its thrust to improve the...

Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Area One, Warren Clarke (centre), addressing a press conference, held at the Holiday Inn Sunspree Hotel in Montego Bay, on January 7. The session was held to update the media on the police

12 years ago National Security and Peace

Police Report Success in Area One

Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of St. James, Westmoreland and Hanover (Area One), Warren Clarke, says that sustained efforts by the Police to control crime in western Jamaica has reaped success, with the total dismantling of the notorious Alma gang. “Gangs played a significant role as drivers of violence during 2013, and so we are particularly encouraged by the...

Prime Minister the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller (right), moves to embrace President, Jamaica Civil Service Association, Oneil Grant (left), as she hands him a copy of the Heads of Agreement for the 2012-2015 contract period between the Government of Jamaica and the Public Sector Unions/Associations, which was signed today (March 6), at the Office of the Prime Minister. Looking on is Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. the Hon. Peter Phillips.

12 years ago Year in Review 2013

Prime Minister Very Focused on Growth and Development Agenda

Led by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, the Government made significant strides in taking the country forward in 2013, despite the many challenges it faced. It was a year during which the Government secured an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help stabilize the country’s economy; secured important foreign investments and bilateral economic agreements; passed...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller (left), presents keys to Winston Chambers, one of the beneficiaries of the National Housing Trust’s (NHT) Longville Park Phase III Housing Scheme, during a handing over ceremony on February 20 in Clarendon. Some 882 solutions will be handed over in this phase of the development.

12 years ago Social SecurityVision 2030Year in Review 2013

Thousands Benefit from Social Inclusion Policy

Thousands of Jamaica’s most vulnerable benefitted from the Government’s strategic policy of Social Inclusion during 2013. Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, told the nation during her 2013 Budget Debate presentation in the House of Representatives, in April, that protecting the most vulnerable - the poor, children, senior citizens and persons with disabilities - was the Government’s central...

Minister of Health, the Hon. Fenton Ferguson at the launch of the Heart Foundation of Jamaica’s (HFJ) annual ‘Run for your Heart’ event on October 29, at Emancipation Park in New Kingston.

12 years ago Health & WellnessVision 2030Year in Review 2013

Access to Quality Health Care Advanced in 2013

The Ministry of Health, this year, created systems of excellence, and advanced healthcare for all, an agenda emphasised by portfolio Minister, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson in his Sectoral presentation in June. TOBACCO LEGISLATION In July the Government, led by the Ministry of Health, passed regulations to ban smoking in specified public places. By October, Minister Ferguson was able to report...