Approximately 20,000 new rooms are set to come on stream over the next five to 10 years, says Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett. Mr. Bartlett provided an update on the investment projects while opening the 2023/24 Sectoral Debate in House of Representatives, on April 18. The Minister pointed out that these additional rooms will be located in all the...

The Ministry of Tourism is reporting that 8,000 hospitality workers are paying into the Tourism Workers Pension Scheme, with over $550 million in contributions, to date. Portfolio Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, made the disclosure as he opened the 2023/24 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives, on April 18. The Government has committed over $1 billion to the scheme, and...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator the Hon. Matthew Samuda (right), listens as Ambassador of Mexico to Jamaica, His Excellency, Juan José González Mijares, makes a point during a courtesy call at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Tuesday (April 18).

The Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) has advised that they are prepared to respond should the country experience a major earthquake. Speaking at a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) ‘Think Tank’ at the agency’s head office in Kingston today (Tuesday), Public Relations Officer, JFB, Emeleo Ebanks, said there has been an influx of more than 30 new trucks within the last two...

Senior Manager, Trophy Tours, FIFA, Sarah Gandoin, proudly shows the FIFA Women’s World Cup Trophy to DMP Academy student, Genesis Williams, at Harmony Beach Park in Montego Bay on Monday (April 17). The trophy was taken to the Second City during the Jamaica leg of the global tour of the trophy ahead of the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia and...

CARICOM leaders are being urged by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, to continue lobbying the United States (US) for its assistance in stemming the flow of guns into the Caribbean. “We must, as a collective group, agree that greater resources must be placed into national security, into our police forces, into our ability to gather intelligence and interdict...

Minister of Education and Youth and Member of Parliament for Eastern St. Andrew, Hon. Fayval Williams (left), assists reggae artist Sizzla Kalonji in distributing ice-cream treats to children in August Town at a function held at Judgement Yard in the community on April 16.