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Prime Minister Bruce Golding was assured by the visiting UK Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Jeremy Browne, that he has made representation for a revision on the application on the Air Passenger Duty (APD)  tax which  is levied on travellers to the Caribbean.  Prime Minster Golding received Minister Browne at a Courtesy Call at Jamaica House on January...

Forty young people and two youth teams have been nominated for the Prime Minister's Youth Awards for Excellence. The award ceremony, previously scheduled for December 5, will take place on Sunday, January 23 on the lawns of Jamaica House beginning at 5:30 p.m. The nominees are: Midhun Thomas, Rene Gayle, Alyssa Morgan, Nicola Gaye Maxwell, Jermaine Case, Javian Malcolm, and...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, has raised concerns about the provisions of the Whistleblower legislation, which places a duty on individuals, without investigative powers, to follow up on disclosures of misconduct by employees. In his contribution in the House of Representatives to the debate on the Protected Disclosures Act (2010), also called the Whistleblower legislation, Mr. Golding on Tuesday...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding said of the late Parliamentarian, and Cabinet Minister, Donald Buchanan, that “he created a little bit of discomfort sometimes. He did it as someone who was committed to the work and service of this Parliament. He was passionate about his party, as we all know, he was passionate about his beliefs, he was passionate about his...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding says the Caribbean region faces many of the same challenges requiring united action, one of which has to do with the decision of the United Kingdom   to impose the Aviation Passenger Duty (APD) tax. He said the region was united in its position that this tax is manifestly unjust to the countries of the Caribbean region....

Prime Minister Bruce Golding this evening officially declared open the two day Caribbean Marketplace at the new Montego Bay Convention Centre welcoming the  participants  whom he said were the  indispensible partners in the tourism enterprise that means so much to the Caribbean islands. He said that despite the challenges during the recession period, tourism buyers had not abandoned the region...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, has said that Jamaica and the wider region will continue to lobby against the Airport Passenger Duty (APD) imposed by the United Kingdom government, which he said, was unfair. “One particular issue that we (Caribbean governments) have been struggling with has to do with the decision of the United Kingdom to impose this Airport...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has said the merger of Jamaica’s lovebird, Air Jamaica and Caribbean Airlines is a practical demonstration that the two airlines mean business. Speaking at the launch of the rebirth of Air Jamaica on January 14, Prime Minister Golding expressed appreciation to the Government of Trinidad and Tobago noting that there is a genuine spirit of collaboration...

“Downtown Kingston is going to get nice again. We are determined that where we have got to go,” Prime Minister Bruce Golding said on Saturday (January 15), at the opening of the Downtown Municipal Transport Centre. The ceremony also launched the new Downtown Kingston Transportation System. “What I can assure you is that the redevelopment of downtown is being pursued in a planned, purposeful,...

The Office of the Prime Minister has taken a further step to involve a wider base of public participation in the 2011 National Civil Honours and Awards programme by placing the nomination forms on its website at www.opm.gov.jm. This is the first time that the form is available via the Internet. The printed forms will still be available at the...

The Police have been requested to conduct further investigations into media reports that 16-year old Dale Anthony Davis went missing during the operations by the security forces in May 2010 in the Tivoli Gardens area. The request comes in the wake of a meeting on Thursday January 13 between Prime Minister and Member of Parliament for West Kingston, Bruce Golding, with Davis’ mother,...

The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) is assuring Jamaicans that the information they will be required to provide for the 2011 Population and Housing Census will be kept in the strictest confidence. “We are bound by the Statistics Act to keep the information confidential and in the final analysis, no information is divulged on any individual. That is not the...