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Executive Director of the HEART Trust/NTA, Dr. Wayne Wesley (left), is greeted by Group Aquacentre Director, Sandals International Resorts, Michael Clarke, at the launch of Competency Standards for Tourism, Hospitality and Community Service, at the Grandiosa Hotel in Montego Bay, on February 11.
Executive Director of the HEART Trust/NTA, Dr. Wayne Wesley (left), is greeted by Group Aquacentre Director, Sandals International Resorts, Michael Clarke, at the launch of Competency Standards for Tourism, Hospitality and Community Service, at the Grandiosa Hotel in Montego Bay, on February 11.

Head of HEART Says Workers Must be trained for Hospitality Sector

Executive Director of the Human Employment and Resource Training/National Training Agency (HEART Trust/NTA), Dr. Wayne Wesley, says Jamaican workers must be trained to capitalize on the job opportunities that will soon be available in the hospitality sector. Addressing stakeholders and...
Chairman of the Labour Market Reform Commission, Dr. Marshall Hall, makes a point during a recent interview with JIS News at the Planning Institute of Jamaica.
Chairman of the Labour Market Reform Commission, Dr. Marshall Hall, makes a point during a recent interview with JIS News at the Planning Institute of Jamaica.

Labour Market Reform Commission Advances Mandate
Chief of Staff, United States Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, Claudia Gordon, makes her presentation at a Disability Sector Advocacy Seminar hosted by the Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities (JCPD) on Monday (Feb. 8), at Alhambra Inn in St. Andrew.
Chief of Staff, United States Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, Claudia Gordon, makes her presentation at a Disability Sector Advocacy Seminar hosted by the Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities (JCPD) on Monday (Feb. 8), at Alhambra Inn in St. Andrew.

Deaf Jamaican-Born Lawyer Hails Passage of Disabilities Act
Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson (seated, second right) and Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites (seated, second left) sign a Memorandum of Understanding that is designed to provide career guidance and improve access to labour market information system among young people at parish and community levels. The signing was undertaken at the Kingston and St. Andrew Parish Library on Tom Redcam Drive on February 3. Others (seated, from left) are: Director General, Jamaica Library Service (JLS), Karen Barton and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Colette Roberts Risden. Overseeing the signing (standing, from left) are: Public Relations and Marketing Officer, JLS, Kimberly Whilby McLaughlin and Record Clerk, Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Vennecia Francis.
Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson (seated, second right) and Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites (seated, second left) sign a Memorandum of Understanding that is designed to provide career guidance and improve access to labour market information system among young people at parish and community levels. The signing was undertaken at the Kingston and St. Andrew Parish Library on Tom Redcam Drive on February 3. Others (seated, from left) are: Director General, Jamaica Library Service (JLS), Karen Barton and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Colette Roberts Risden. Overseeing the signing (standing, from left) are: Public Relations and Marketing Officer, JLS, Kimberly Whilby McLaughlin and Record Clerk, Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Vennecia Francis.

Labour Ministry and JLS Sign MOU for Use of LMIS
Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites (right), exchanges greetings with Executive Director of the Early Stimulation Programme (ESP), Antonica Gunter-Gayle. Occasion was the ground breaking ceremony for a new multi -purpose facility to house the Early Stimulation Programme (ESP), at Hanover Street, downtown Kingston on January 20.
Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites (right), exchanges greetings with Executive Director of the Early Stimulation Programme (ESP), Antonica Gunter-Gayle. Occasion was the ground breaking ceremony for a new multi -purpose facility to house the Early Stimulation Programme (ESP), at Hanover Street, downtown Kingston on January 20.

ESP to Get $87 Million Multipurpose Facility

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400 Expected to Attend Heart Trust/NTA’s Labour Market Research Day

Some 400 persons are expected to attend the HEART Trust/NTA’s inaugural Labour Market Research Day  scheduled for Tuesday, February 16 under the theme: ‘Labour Market Information: A National Imperative for Career and Economic Development’. Director of Marketing and Communications at the agency, Natalie Fearon, said the day’s activities will be divided into two segments – a general session at the...
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Jamaica Productivity Centre Pushing for ESCO Industry

The Jamaica Productivity Centre (JPC) is pushing for individual Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) to join forces to form an industry that will effectively cater to the needs of a growing clientele. Executive Director of the JPC, Dr. Charles Douglas, told JIS News that while individual companies have been providing energy services across the country, more can be achieved if an...
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Labour

Growth Momentum to Continue – PIOJ

The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) is forecasting positive economic growth for 2016, continuing on trends from 2014 and 2015. “We expect another year of positive growth (for) the calendar and fiscal year,” said Deputy Director General of the PIOJ, Richard Lumsden, at a recent labour market forum at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. He said the growth...
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Govt to Address Issues Affecting Security Guards

The Government will be acting on a recommendation from the Minimum Wage Commission, to address the issues of some security guards not receiving payslips, and being designated contractors. The contract designation prevents the guards from obtaining certain benefits under labour regulations, and Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, says it is a matter that will have...
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Labour

GOV’T Announces Increases in the Minimum Wage

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, has announced a 10.71 per cent increase in the national minimum wage from $5,600 to $6,200 for a 40-hour workweek. In addition, industrial security guards will receive $8,854 for a 40-hour work- week, up from $8,198, reflecting an eight per cent increase. The new rates take effect on March 1, 2016....
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Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson (left), listens to Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Colette Roberts Risden, during a meeting with staff at the St. Andrew offices of the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT), today (January 19).
Labour

Office of the IDT to be Established in Western Jamaica

Persons in the western end of the island will later this year have full services of the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT), as the Government will be establishing an office there to arbitrate on labour disagreements. Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, who made the disclosure, said it is part of several measures to strengthen the IDT...
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President of JAMPRO, Diane Edwards, addresses a JIS Think Tank on January 13. (FILE)
Labour

JAMPRO Facilitates Over $27 Billion in Investment and 8,261 Jobs

The Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO) is reporting major success in promoting and facilitating investment and employment opportunities for the 2014/15 financial year. Speaking at a JIS Think Tank on January 13, President of JAMPRO, Diane Edwards, said “we have recorded capital expenditure/capital investment of $27.1 billion for JAMPRO-facilitated projects.”“(This) represents a 33 per cent overachievement of our targets for that...
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