Cabinet has approved an amendment to the Customs Act to provide the Commissioner of Customs with additional power to forego the security requirements on temporary importation of goods. This will be applicable in circumstances where the office is satisfied that the goods, once imported, will be re-exported from the island within the time specified. Minister with responsibility for Information, Senator...

Minister with responsibility for Information, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer, has informed that Cabinet is moving to reduce the costs often associated with the publication of annual reports by government entities. An annual report is a comprehensive statement on an entity’s activities throughout the preceding year. Annual reports are intended to give shareholders and other interested persons information about the company’s activities and financial performance. Speaking...

Businessman, Christopher Cargill, has been reappointed to serve as Chairman of the Board of the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) for another two years, following an approval by Cabinet. The appointment takes effect this month and is valid until June 2016. Minister with responsibility for Information, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer, made the disclosure on Wednesday, June 11, during the...

A biodigester septic tank is to be constructed at Stokes Hall, St. Thomas, at a cost of approximately $47.7 million. Cabinet approved the contract to Y.P. Seaton and Associates for constructing the biodigester, which will be done under the Barracks Relocation Project of the Sugar Transformation Programme. Minister of Information, Hon. Sandrea Falconer made the announcement at Wednesday’s, May 28,...

Professor of Political Sociology at the University of the West Indies, Professor Anthony Harriott, has been appointed as the third Commissioner for the Tivoli Commission of Enquiry. Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer, told journalists at Jamaica House Media Briefing on Wednesday, May 28, that Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, has appointed the third Commissioner....

Fifty-nine persons from various inner-city communities in the Corporate Area, including nine police officers, have completed their training in the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) Civic Affairs/Inner-city Development Committee youth leadership programme. The aim of the programme is to improve the relationship between citizens and the police, in order to reduce crime and to provide residents with the skills to...

Thirty women from the Jamaica Household Workers Union (JHWU) have been empowered in advocacy, negotiation, proposal writing, and mediation skills, through a $3.7 million training initiative being carried out at the Management Institute for National Development (MIND). Financed by the Fund for Gender Equity, a special facility of the United Nations Entity for Gender and Equality and the Empowerment of...

The European Union (EU) has expressed an interest in providing financial assistance to the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF), to help boost the institution’s services. This intervention is expected to significantly enhance the Foundation’s services to teenage mothers, aged 17 and under, who have dropped out of secondary school due to pregnancy. Head of the EU Delegation in Jamaica,...

Local and regional media have been challenged to assist citizens with economic literacy, by keeping them informed about issues affecting governments. “People in the Caribbean need to know how the actions of their leaders are constrained by what takes place outside of the region.  Our Caribbean media have a responsibility, an obligation, to let the people of the Caribbean know...