Director General, Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Dr. Wayne Henry (right), converses with Programme Director, Global Services Sector (GSS) Project, Marjorie Straw (left) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Caribbean Country Department General Manager and Country Representative in Jamaica, Tariq Alli, during the IDB’s Project Execution Units (PEU) Challenge Awards Ceremony, on May 12. The event was hosted at the IDB’s...

The four teams advancing to the semifinals of the 2023 Public Sector Debate Competition will face off on Thursday, May 18 as they vie for $2.5 million dollars in cash and prizes. The Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) will go up against the Jamaica Information Service at 10:00 a.m., while the Victoria Jubilee Hospital will compete against the Ministry of Finance...

The Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) has announced that, in December 2022, it became a member of 2X Global, an industry-building organisation for investors, capital providers, and intermediaries working in public and private markets across both developed and emerging economies. Membership in 2X Global, formerly known as the 2X Collaborative, will allow the DBJ to participate in the multiple Communities...

 

A task force has been established to examine discrepancies within the payment system for teachers. This was disclosed by Minister without Portfolio with Responsibility for Information in the Office of the Prime Minister, Hon. Robert Morgan, while responding to a question posed during Wednesday’s (May 10) post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House. “The Minister of Education and Youth, in consultation...

The Ministry of Finance and the Public Service (MOFPS) is set to engage thousands of Jamaicans in a series of public consultation fora on the Government of Jamaica‘s (GOJ’s) National Natural Disaster Risk Financing (NNDRF) Policy starting at the Old Police Station (50 Main Street) May Pen, Clarendon on Monday, May 15, 2023, from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The...

Permanent Secretary the Office of the Prime Minister and co-founder of the Watsonton Methodist Church Scholarship Fund, Audrey Sewell (second left), with (from left) General Manager, Legal Services, Development Bank of Jamaica and co- founder of the scholarship fund, Sheron Henry; Superintendent, May Pen Circuit of Methodist Churches, Reverend Nicola Barrett- Glasgow; Co-founder and committee member, Watsonton Methodist Church Scholarship...