The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) is reporting that the largest increase in employment by occupation group, in April 2022, was recorded in ‘Service Workers and Shop and Market Sales Workers’, which climbed by 18,500 persons to 283,900. This represented a seven-percentage point increase, according to the Statistical Institute of Jamaica’s (STATIN) Labour Force Survey for the month. The findings...

Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Hon. Daryl Vaz, is in discussion with Ambassador of Japan to Jamaica, His Excellency Masaya Fujiwara (left) and Director General for the International Affairs Global Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan, Onodera Osamu, when they visited the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on July 15.

State Minister in the Ministry Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. Leslie Campbell (right), engages in discussion with French Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Olivier Guyonvarch, during a reception held at the French Embassy in St. Andrew on Thursday (July 14) to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Jamaica and France and to celebrate the French...

The Government of Jamaica is strengthening the national framework to combat human trafficking. Development of a National Policy and Plan of Action on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) are underway through the National Task Force Against Trafficking in Persons (NATFATIP). Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of National Security, Courtney Williams, who is chairman of NATFATIP, made the disclosure while addressing the...

Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security, Hon. Zavia Mayne, has reassured US partners of the Government’s commitment to the fight against human trafficking. “We have been training and sensitising first responders, including health workers, child protection workers, community advocates, law-enforcement officers, judges, port officers, and immigration officers to effectively recognise the signs that someone, especially a child,...

Healthcare workers in the west were feted at a Fun Day on Wednesday, July 13, held at Paradise Park by the River in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland. The event was staged on National Healthcare Workers Appreciation Day, and formed part of the activities for ‘Healthcare Workers Appreciation Month’, being observed in July under the theme: ‘Honouring Commitment, Service and Sacrifice’. The month-long...

Jamaica’s unemployment rate fell to a new record low of six per cent in April 2022, to continue the downward trajectory occurring in recent months. This outturn, according to the Statistical Institute of Jamaica’s (STATIN) April Labour Force Survey, is 0.2 percentage point lower than the figure for January 2022. Director General, Carol Coy, said it also represents a three-percentage...