A sum of $638 million has been set aside in the 2019/20 Estimates of Expenditure for the HIV Prevalence in Most-at-Risk Population Reduced Project. The funds will go towards increasing safer sex practices; strengthening care, counselling and treatment services; and addressing stigma and discrimination among vulnerable and high-risk groups, including men who have sex with men (MSM) and female sex...

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Representative to Jamaica, Dr. Constant Lonkeng Ngouana, says that as Jamaica’s debt is reduced, more money will become available to invest for the development of the country. Speaking at a meeting of the Rotary Club of Kingston East and Port Royal at Eden Garden Wellness and Spa, Lady Musgrave Road, on February 11, Dr. Ngouana pointed...

Jamaica will host the 37th Institute of Chartered Accountants of the Caribbean (ICAC) Annual Conference from June 20 to 22. The event was formally launched by Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Fayval Williams, at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, New Kingston, on February 8. Some 500 accounting and business professionals from across the...

The University of the West Indies (UWI) is being encouraged to provide ongoing support, through research, for accelerated economic and social development in Jamaica. Minister without Portfolio in the Finance and the Public Service Ministry, Hon. Fayval Williams, noted that as a “knowledge producer”, the UWI is well positioned for this undertaking. She also urged well-thinking Jamaicans to join the...

The human resource records in some 30 ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) are expected to be uploaded on the new MyHR+ digital data system by January 2021. Finance and the Public Service Minister, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, made the disclosure while providing an update on the Government’s Public Sector Transformation Programme (PSTP) at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New...

Shared corporate service delivery across government is projected to get under way early in the 2019/20 fiscal year with implementation of the initial component of Human Resource Management (HRM). Finance and the Public Service Minister, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, says work on this aspect of the Public Sector Transformation Programme (PSTP) is at an “advanced stage”, adding the proposed...

The Government has identified 18 additional public bodies that will either be merged, reintegrated into parent Ministries, or closed by September this year. This follows the initial 20 acted on under the Public Sector Transformation Programme (PSTP). Finance and the Public Service Minister, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, made the announcement during a programme update at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel...