Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) in its continued drive to collect outstanding property taxes will be setting-up four (4) outstations on Saturday, September 28, 2013 at separate locations across the island. The operation of these outstations is to provide a convenient option for persons to pay their property taxes, without having to visit a tax office or pay online. The venues...

Discussions are ongoing between the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) and representatives of the local banking sector on a proposed code of conduct to govern their operations. The CAC is pursuing the code’s implementation against the background of growing public concern about the extent of fees which banks currently charge customers/clients for services provided. Chairperson of the CAC, Lorna Green, says...

The public is being warned to be vigilant when purchasing pharmaceuticals, particularly sexual performance enhancers. This comes following the recent seizure of counterfeit pharmaceutical products by the Jamaica Custom Agency (JCA). Speaking  during a media briefing on Thursday, September 19, at the JCA’s headquarters in Kingston, Commissioner of Customs, Major (ret’d) Richard Reese, noted that these illicit products, which include...

The Vision 2030 Jamaica Secretariat, located at the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), is reporting steady progress in the implementation of Vision 2030 Jamaica, the country’s long-term National Development Plan. Vision 2030 Jamaica is intended to position the island to achieve developed country status by 2030 and, in the process, make it “… the place of choice to live, work,...

The Government has received €7 million in budgetary support from the European Union (EU), which will assist in the implementation of various development programmes. The provision is being facilitated through a grant agreement, which Government and EU officials signed on Tuesday, September 17, during a ceremony at the Ministry of Finance and Planning in Kingston. Portfolio Minister, Dr. the Hon....

Over 100 public sector human resource directors, managers and officers participated in a workforce adjustment and human resource process standardisation conference on Tuesday, September 17, at the Institute of Jamaica (IoJ). The event, organised by the Finance and Planning Ministry’s Strategic Human Resource Management Division (SHRMD), featured presentations on a range of human resource procedures to be incorporated in the...

Sagicor Life Jamaica Limited’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Richard Byles, is voicing support for Jamaica’s economic reform programme (ERP) currently being implemented by the government. The programme, he says, will ensure that targeted structural reforms, stipulated under the US$932.3 million four-year Extended Fund Facility (EFF), which the government negotiated with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), are implemented. Speaking recently...