Executive Director of the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF), Clyde Harrison, has reported that the entity spends an estimated $2 billion each year on projects and programmes geared at enhancing the nation’s tourism product. Speaking at a JIS ‘Think Tank’ on May 6, the Executive Director pointed out that the funds are primarily allocated for the beautification and upgrading of major...

Budding chefs and household cooks in the inner-city communities of Southside and Tel-Aviv in downtown Kingston will get a chance to showcase and improve their talent on Saturday, May 17, as Gas Products Limited (GASPRO) partner with the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) to stage the first ‘GASPRO Street Style Cook-up’ at Tower Street in Parade Gardens, Kingston. The initiative,...

The public will be given an opportunity to influence the recently drafted Water Sector Policy, through a series of public consultations to be staged at key locations island wide, starting April 10. The consultations will outline the policy in detail, and capture the views of the public. This was disclosed by Senior Director in the Policy and Monitoring division of...

The Prime Minister’s Youth Awards for Excellence will be celebrating its “sweet sixteen” birthday this year with a number of changes, which the organisers say will make the 2014 staging one with a difference. The Awards, which is recognised as the most prestigious national honour bestowed upon outstanding young Jamaicans between 15 and 24 years, will be held under the...

The Maritime Authority of Jamaica is prepared to receive larger vessels (New Panamax) that are likely to call at Jamaica’s ports following the expansion of the Panama Canal in 2015. This was disclosed by Director General of the Maritime Authority, Rear Admiral Peter Brady at a JIS Think Tank on March 26. He explained the implications of larger vessels coming...

As of April 8, all buses operating on Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) sub-franchise routes in the Kingston Metropolitan Transport Region (KMTR) are required to bear the same yellow colour as JUTC buses, and have identifying stickers on the back and front windshields. The public is therefore advised to take only buses that are colour-coded and bearing the specified identifying...

Jamaica will for the first time, host the Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Parliamentary Confederation of the Americas (COPA), and the Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Network of Women Parliamentarians of the Americas. Parliamentarians and other political figures from the region and various countries in the Americas will converge at the Hilton Rose Hall Resort and...