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The eligibility period for the award of Government of Jamaica contracts to all contractors registered with the National Contracts Commission (NCC) has been extended to February 28, 2011. This adjustment comes as Cabinet has issued a policy directive stipulating that all NCC-registered contractors should be considered eligible up to the specified date even if the period of registration may have...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding said that as Jamaica is coming out of the recession, now is the time for developers to go into housing projects. Mr Golding was speaking at the presentation of keys to new homeowners of Portmore Villas 2B on November 26. "We are coming out of the recession now. When we were in the belly of the...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding said that the military museum of the Jamaica Defence Force will not be removed from its present site at Up Park Camp, even when the Force's headquarters is removed to Caymanas. Mr. Golding was speaking at the presentation of keys to new homeowners of Portmore Villas 2B on November 26. The military will be relocated on...

The Government is moving closer to creating its own communication network, GovNet, following provision of a $20.5 million grant from the Inter- American Development Bank (IDB). The Technical Cooperation Agreement was signed Thursday (November 25), at the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Heroes Circle, Kingston. Vice Chair of the Central Information Technology Office at the Office of the...

A contract for the implementation and management of an advertising programme concession, at the Half-Way-Tree Transport Centre, has been awarded to IPrint Digital Limited. This disclosure was made by Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz at a Post Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House in Kingston on Wednesday November 24. "The contract is for...

Efforts to develop a policy framework for a Radiation Protection Infrastructure to oversee the management and use of equipment generating Ionized Radiation in Jamaica are at an advanced stage. A submission is expected to be made to Cabinet and, following likely approval, a Bill will be tabled in Parliament for debate before being passed into law. "Where we are now...

The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) is to investigate whether resources being channeled into existing welfare programmes are achieving maximum results. Prime Minister, the Hon Bruce Golding, told the launch of the Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions, at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston on Tuesday November 23, that a review of the programmes has become necessary. He explained...

Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, has said that the study being undertaken on the country's import waiver policy should be completed by the first quarter of 2011. The government, earlier this year, suspended the issuing of waivers and incentives in a move to boost the economy and address the budget deficit. Prime Minister,...

Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, has said that the study being undertaken on the country's import waiver policy should be completed by the first quarter of 2011. The government, earlier this year, suspended the issuing of waivers and incentives in a move to boost the economy and address the budget deficit. Prime Minister,...

Programme Manager in the Planning Institute of Jamaica's (PIOJ) Plan Development Unit, Richard Lumsden, says improvements in the areas of education, labour force quality and security are part of the four key goals to advancing the National Development Plan - Vision 2030. The goals include: empowering persons to achieve their full potential; making the society secure, cohesive and just; making...

The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) has commissioned the services of a world leading economist to assist the agency in developing policy recommendations for further growth in the local economy. Making the disclosure during the Institute's quarterly press briefing on Monday November 22 at its offices in Kingston, Director General, Dr. Gladstone Hutchinson, said the PIOJ is working on initiatives...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding said Saturday November 20 that he is optimistic the recently appointed Public Sector Monitoring Committee (PSMC) will find a resolution to the issue of the seven percent pay increase owed to Government employees. "I am hopeful, indeed, optimistically hopeful that with the monitoring committee now in place we are going to be able to find a...