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The Government will be placing emphasis on rectifying key constraints in the business environment over the next two years, as it continues to roll out Vision 2030 Jamaica. According to the plan's Medium-Term Socio-Economic Policy Framework, which covers the period 2009 to 2012, this is being done through specific national strategies, including: revising and modernising relevant legislation and regulations; streamlining...

Prime Minister, Hon. Bruce Golding has explained that what the 2010/11 budget seeks to do is to create the conditions that will facilitate investment and growth, and not to finance investment and growth. He noted that the conditions include proper fiscal management, reduced deficit, lower interest rates, less borrowing, confidence-building transparency and accountability. "We recognise that improving our fiscal dynamics...

The Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, is scheduled to make his contribution to the 2010/11 Budget Debate at Gordon House on Tuesday (April 17), starting shortly after 2:00 p.m. Mr. Golding is expected to address a number of national and international issues, including those raised by the Leader of the Opposition, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, in her...

The Jamaica Early Childhood Development Foundation (JECDF) will be focusing on projects looking at the role of grandparents, particularly grandmothers, in the early development of children in Jamaica. "We will be supporting those (projects), aimed at educating and guiding these grandmothers, in their efforts to offer surrogate support to Jamaica's young children," Founder and Chair of the JECDF, Mrs. Lorna...

Minister of State for Energy and Mining, Hon. Laurence Broderick, has called on the Organization of American States (OAS) to play its part in facilitating cooperation between oil producing and consuming countries in addressing climate change. "There is an urgent need to demonstrate a greater resolve by the stronger nations in assisting the non-producing nations," Mr. Broderick stated as he...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. Kenneth Baugh is today participating in the 33rd meeting of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) in London. The CMAG was established at the 1995 Commonwealth Heads of Government in Auckland, New Zealand with the mandate to assess the nature of any infringement to the political fundamental values...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Dr. the Hon Kenneth Baugh, has extended the commendations of the public and the gratitude of Prime Minister Bruce Golding to the members of the local police force who have served on various United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping Missions. Dr. Baugh was speaking at a meeting with the officers at...

An organisation to recognise and highlight the skills and experience of retired persons while providing them with an opportunity to continue to contribute to the development of the country, was officially launched today (April 13) at the Knutsford Court Hotel in Kingston. Dubbed: 'Caribbean Community of Retired Persons' (CCRP) Limited the non-profit membership organistion is the first comprehensive body for...

The wife of the Prime Minister, Mrs. Lorna Golding, will join three other wives of world leaders as the Guests of Honour at Friday's "First Ladies Speak" event, being staged by the United Nation's Women's International Forum in New York. Mrs. Golding will be one of three eminent speakers at the forum being held under the theme, "The First Ladies...

Cabinet has approved talks between Jamaica and the Peoples Republic of China on cooperation on the transmission of Chinese radio and television programmes in Jamaica. However, Minister with Responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, says that the discussions are in the preliminary stage, and that China is only interested in the rebroadcast of Chinese radio and...

Alpart bauxite company recently honoured its former communications manager, Mr. Lance Neita, for his role in helping to build harmonious relations between the company and communities in Manchester and St. Elizabeth. At a function held at the company's sports club in Nain, St. Elizabeth, Mr. Neita was lauded by community leaders, civic and political representatives, for his role in the...

Minister with Responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, is optimistic that the Government will be able to iron out the transition between Air Jamaica and Caribbean Airlines, as it relates to the Open Skies agreement with the United States. Speaking at a post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House Wednesday (April 7), Mr. Vaz noted that a...