Government expenditure for the first four months of fiscal year 2019/20 (April-July) totalled $194.7 billion. Of this sum, recurrent expenditure amounted to just over $179 billion, with capital expenditure totalling $15.6 billion, according to the Government’s 2019/20 Fiscal Policy Paper Interim Report. The document indicates that while the figure is lower than budgeted this year, it was approximately $6.2 billion...

On Friday October 6, 2017, members of the Jamaica Customs Contraband Enforcement Team (CET) and officers from the Jamaica Constabulary Force, Narcotics Division (JCF-ND) seized a shipment consisting of fifteen (15) rectangular packages containing 16.90kgs/37.26 lbs of Cocaine with an estimated street value of JMD$24,167,000.00/ US$185,900.00 concealed in a transshipment container on the Port of Kingston. During routine operations the...

"Better Politics, Better Policies, Better People" Inauguration Address by Honourable Andrew Holness, MP Prime Minister of Jamaica OCTOBER 23, 2011 Your Excellencies, the Governor General, the Most Honourable Sir Patrick Allen and Lady Allen, Leader of the Opposition the Most Honorable Portia Simpson Miller, the Most Honorable Edward Seaga and Mrs Seaga, the Most Honorable PJ Patterson, the Honorable Bruce...

Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Sub-Regional Office for the Caribbean, Sheila Roseau, is advocating that Jamaica’s reintegration policy for adolescent mothers be adopted by other Caribbean countries. Jamaica is seen as a role model for allowing adolescent mothers to return to school to complete their education. This is done under the National Reintegration Policy of the Ministry...

Rural Water Supply Limited has been contracted to provide consultancy services and technical expertise to the National Water Commission (NWC), under its Tank and Pump Operational Efficiency Programme. This was announced by Minister with Responsibility for Information, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer, at a Jamaica House press briefing, on November 26. The entity has been awarded a $55.6 million contract...

The Jamaica Information Service (JIS) has launched its inaugural Heritage Poster Competition, under the theme, ‘We are Free’. Targeting secondary level students across Jamaica in Grades 7 to 13, the competition will last for two months. Students are being asked to express their thoughts on freedom and its meaning through visual art, in the form of graphic or illustrated posters....

Jamaica has improved eight places on the Global Competitiveness index and is now ranked 86 out of 144 countries for 2014/15. The country ranked 94 out of 148 countries in the 2103 to 2014 report and 97 out of 144 the previous year. The report, which was released on September 2 by the World Economic Forum, assesses the competitiveness landscape...

The Minister of Youth and Culture, the Honourable Lisa Hanna, MP has expressed great sadness over news of the killing of a two year old boy in Lewis, St Ann yesterday. The toddler, his father, and other members of their community were attacked by a man with a knife. It was reported that the perpetrator had become enraged following an altercation in...