Six local authorities across five parishes have been selected to participate in a project geared at stimulating economic development at the community level. This is under the Caribbean Local Economic Development Project (CARILED), which is a six-year programme funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Development, Canada (DFATD). It is focused on stimulating sustainable local economic development in...

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton, has indicated that the country is poised to meet its 2015 deadline for the implementation of several critical deliverables relating to facilitation of the Logistics Hub initiative. Speaking at a JIS ‘Think Tank’, on September 27, the Minister pointed to several projects and strategies that are already on stream and will...

The Minimum Wage Advisory Commission (MWAC) on September 26, concluded its series of island-wide consultations on the national minimum wage, at a two-hour session held at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security in Kingston. The consultation received recommendations and concerns from representatives of a wide array of sectors central to the discussions on the national minimum wage. These included...

President of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Nathan Robb, has made a call for business operators to focus on employing strategies for growth. He noted that despite challenges in the economy, there are opportunities for businesses to expand and figures indicate that a number of operations in Western Jamaica are growing. “While we might not have…the larger...

Matters of mutual interest between Jamaica and the Washington, D.C. National Guard were discussed during a recent visit to the Embassy by the Director of National Plans and Training of the Guard, Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Campbell. Discussions between Ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Professor Stephen Vasciannie and Lieutenant Colonel Campbell centred around cyber security, disaster relief initiatives, medical...

Commercial espionage affecting Jamaican businesses are to be addressed at a two-day conference on Cyber Security and Digital Forensics, to be staged at the University of the West Indies from September 30 to October 1. This was stated by Minister of State in the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Hon. Julian Robinson, as he addressed a Jamaica Information...

A Cabinet submission highlighting reforms to the Access to Information Act, is to be presented to Parliament by the end of the third quarter of the financial year. Director of the Access to Information (ATI) Unit at the Office of the Prime Minister, Damion Cox, says the reforms are part of the recommendations made by a Joint Select Committee of...