Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says a percentage of savings from Jamaica’s debt reduction programme will be transferred to the Contingencies Fund, to bolster the country’s response to natural disasters. “In the new era of being fiscally resilient, whatever we save from the reduction in debt repayments, we are putting some aside to deal with catastrophic disasters that...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says he intends to make Jamaica the most modern country in the Caribbean by the next 20 years. “Jamaica must develop…we have lost 40 years,” the Prime Minister said at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Fontana Pharmacy Waterloo’s branch, in Kingston, on Thursday (October 17).  “We have a generation or two that has not...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says that the interests of all stakeholders in the Greater Bernard Lodge Development in St. Catherine will be safeguarded. He assured that under the project’s master plan, all of the issues raised “will be taken into consideration and the appropriate mitigation done.” These matters include environmental sustainability, municipal matters pertaining to roads and...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says that the current business environment in Jamaica is the best it has been in decades as businesses reported profits that exceeded their expectations in the last quarter. Prime Minister Andrew Holness asserted that business owners should be confident, He says Government policies will be in favour of business development, economic growth, and job creation. "What...

Cari-Med Group Limited is investing more than $6 billion in the development of a distribution centre in St. Catherine. The 258,000-square-foot facility, which is being built on land along Salt Pond Road in Bernard Lodge, will house the warehouses and administrative offices of the entity’s Consumer Goods Division. The first phase of the project, for which ground was broken on...

The Government will be extending the hours during which businesses can operate under the State of Public Emergency (SOE) in the St. Andrew South Police Division. “The business hours were extended for Clarendon and St. Catherine, and I am now indicating that it is our intention to extend the business hours for the St. Andrew South State of Public Emergency,”...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says public-sector service delivery is being reshaped to that of an enabler in the provision of goods and services to the private sector. “The role of the public sector is not what it was 20 to 40 years ago. The role of the public sector now is to serve the private sector… while...