Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, has endorsed the call for a wider set of metrics to be used by multilateral financial institutions in determining the support that is provided to countries. “There is a regional and, indeed, a global debate about the nature of support that comes from multilateral financial institutions. There is a sense that it relies...

The upcoming Jamaica Productivity Centre (JPC) Productivity Forum promises to be informative and transformative, says Chief Technical Director of the entity, Tamar Nelson. “This forum will be used to share any insight, research, advancement and data on productivity,” she told JIS News. Under the theme ‘Paving Productivity Pathways to a Prosperous Nation’, the event will take place on World Productivity...

The implementation plan and broad-based monitoring and evaluation framework for the Jamaica Education Transformation Commission (JETC) report are completed. The Ministry of Education and Youth has also completed a multi-year budget to carry out the implementation, which will be submitted to Cabinet for review. Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams and Chairman of the Education Transformation Oversight Committee...

The administrators of Project STAR (Social Transformation and Renewal) are seeking to raise $100 million via an Initial Public Offering (IPO), which will be launched on the Jamaica Social Stock Exchange (JSSE) come June 22. Project STAR is a social and economic transformation initiative created by the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) in partnership with the Jamaica Constabulary Force...

Schools establishing gardens throughout the 2022/23 academic year are being encouraged to forge partnerships to sustain these over the summer. This urging comes from Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams, who said schools should look to partner with community members, parents, and groundsmen at institutions to help to sustain their gardens, “so that when they come back in...

Activities under Project STAR (Social Transformation and Renewal), a collaborative social and economic transformation initiative, have begun to yield dividends since commencing in beneficiary communities in east downtown Kingston seven months ago. The initiative was created by the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) in partnership with the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). Some 8,000 persons reside in the east downtown...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator the Hon. Matthew Samuda (left) looks at a Motor Assured Limited brochure being shown to him by Chief Executive Officer and President, Xavier Allen, during a courtesy call at the Ministry in Kingston on June 13. Looking on is Vice President of Special Projects and Marketing, Onel...