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KINGSTON — Corporate Jamaica has been very supportive of the outreach project of the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), with Sammy's Shoe Store, Leder Mode, Caribbean Broilers Limited, and MegaMart Wholesale Club being the latest to come on board. The companies have willingly donated to the cause, after being approached for the first time since the agency adopted the Mount Olivet...

KINGSTON — Inflation targeting, one of the critical strategies designed to enhance the Bank of Jamaica's (BOJ) primary objective of achieving price stability, is gathering momentum. When fully implemented, this will serve to increase the accountability of the Central Bank, anchor inflation expectations and improve transparency in the bank’s conduct of monetary policy. During a recent seminar targeting senior journalists,...

KINGSTON — The public sector is soon to benefit from an improved treasury management system, which will better facilitate the financial resources of the government Ministries and departments. The Central Treasury Management System (CTMS), to be implemented early 2012, will ensure better management of public resources by bringing the responsibility for treasury management under one agency. Head of the Financial...

Local Entrepreneurs Urged to Be Authentic KINGSTON — It was with an audacity of hope (to borrow from a popular book title) that United Kingdom-(UK) based Jamaican singer and chef, Keith “Levi Roots” Graham, in 2007, entered a BBC television show called the “Dragon’s Den." The show gives entrepreneurs the opportunity to pitch their business ideas to a panel of...

KINGSTON — Jamaica joined the international community in the observance of World Accreditation Day on June 9, even as the country’s nearly US$1.5 billion export sector is being challenged by increased emphasis on strict adherence to internationally recognised and accepted standards and a sharpened focus on the integrity of accreditation.  This year’s theme for Accreditation Day was: ‘Accreditation, supporting the...

KINGSTON — At the Rennock Lodge All-age School in East Kingston the local campaign slogan, 'Eat What We Grow, Grow What We Eat', has become a way of life. Under the school’s Nutrition Enhancement project, everything that is prepared in the institution’s canteen, and eaten by the students and teachers during breakfast and lunch periods, had its genesis in the...

KINGSTON — Great anticipation resonated among persons who turned out last Saturday April 16 to see the first passenger train to grace Jamaica’s landscape in nearly 20 years. Despite the occasion being a test run, between May Pen and Linstead, for the reconditioned five-coach train, it was a sentimental journey for those who witnessed it. Those old enough to remember,...

KINGSTON — The National Transformation Programme (NTP) is looking to launch a discussion programme on radio and television this month, as it moves to increase the national interaction and dialogue around the core values for the transformation of the country. NTP Director for Development, Monitoring and Planning with the NTP, Fabian Brown, tells JIS News that the programme will be...

KINGSTON — The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) has assured householders that the 2011 Population and Housing Census is not aimed at invading their privacy, but at collecting data for national development. This year’s census, being undertaken under the theme, ‘Everyone Counts – You, Me, All a Wi’, is Jamaica’s 14th dating back to 1943, a year before the country’s...

The Heart Foundation of Jamaica is cautioning consumers against excessive use of salt, and to be vigilant when purchasing food items as the salt level may not be properly represented in the labeling. Representatives of the Foundation made the call Wednesday January 26 at the press launch of Heart Month, at the Altamont Court Hotel, New Kingston, under the theme,...

The Land Administration and Management Programme (LAMP) in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) has partnered with several financial institutions to fund the second phase of the land titling initiative, dubbed LAMP II. Under this partnership, the institutions will provide loans to landholders in St. Elizabeth, Clarendon and parts of Manchester, to fund the attendant costs to register their...

Community Relations Officer for the National Water Commission (NWC), Charles Buchanan, has outlined reasons why the Commission should get a rate increase for supplying water to consumers islandwide. Addressing a public forum at the Port Antonio High School in Portland on September 25, Mr. Buchanan said among the reasons were, the inability of the NWC to recover capital cost, the...