President of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Nathan Robb, has made a call for business operators to focus on employing strategies for growth. He noted that despite challenges in the economy, there are opportunities for businesses to expand and figures indicate that a number of operations in Western Jamaica are growing. “While we might not have…the larger...

A Cabinet submission highlighting reforms to the Access to Information Act, is to be presented to Parliament by the end of the third quarter of the financial year. Director of the Access to Information (ATI) Unit at the Office of the Prime Minister, Damion Cox, says the reforms are part of the recommendations made by a Joint Select Committee of...

Members of the public are being invited to attend a two-day National Conference on Cyber Security and Digital Forensics, which will be held from September 30 to October 1 at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Regional Headquarters, Mona, St. Andrew. Under the theme: ‘Protecting Identity, Banking and Citizen Information Networks’, the event is being hosted by the Mona...

Jamaica will join the rest of the world in observing International Right to Know Week from Monday, September 23 to Saturday, September 28, under the theme, ‘Right to Know…Power to Change’. Spearheaded by the Access to Information (ATI) Unit at the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), the week’s campaign is being used to raise awareness of an individual’s right to access...

The Government has allocated $350 million towards the development of community tourism projects as the Ministry of Tourism and Entertainment continues its drive to encourage communities to improve their product and attract more visitors to the island. Speaking at a recent JIS Think Tank, Minister of State in the Ministry, Hon. Damion Crawford, informed that 22 communities have applied for...

With the increase in the number of men being diagnosed with prostate cancer locally, the Jamaica Cancer Society (JCS) is urging Jamaican men over 40 years, to get their prostate screening checks done annually, in order to facilitate early detection and treatment if diagnosed. The appeal comes as the society marks September as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month under the theme:...

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) will shortly introduce a robust electronic fare collection system as part of efforts to stop revenue leakage. Speaking at a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) ‘Think Tank’ at the agency’s headquarters in Kingston on August 21, Managing Director, Colin Campbell said that the revenues of the company are being diminished by leakages particularly where adults...