KINGSTON — The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) is to receive $14.8 million this fiscal year, to strengthen its institutional capacity and the national statistics system. This will be done...

KINGSTON — The Sugar Company of Jamaica Limited and Air Jamaica are to receive grants totalling $7.1 billion to meet legacy payments arising from the divestment of both entities. As...

KINGSTON — Jamaica's effort to develop a strategic spatial framework, which would guide national development and investment decision-making, is being enhanced through a $44.5 million allocation to the National Spatial...

KINGSTON — The Government will continue its efforts to enhance competition in the Jamaican economy, with an allocation of $8.5 million to the Capacity Building in the Enforcement of Competition...

KINGSTON — The Government is moving to improve the operational efficiency of Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs), by providing them with improved access to information technology. The move will...

KINGSTON — A sum of $8.7 million has been allocated in the 2011/12 Estimates of Expenditure, currently before the House of Representatives, to continue work on the Ministry of Industry,...

KINGSTON — The Government, in its efforts to boost investment and job creation, has allocated some $22 million to the Promotion of Foreign Direct Investment in Jamaica project. The provision...

KINGSTON — The Justice Undertakings for Social Transformation (JUST) project has received an allocation of $360 million in the 2011/12 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The...

KINGSTON — The Government has set aside $10.6 billion to continue work to improve the infrastructure in tourist centres along the northern coast of Jamaica. This will be done under...

KINGSTON — The Government will continue to target poverty alleviation in the new fiscal year, including an allocation of $2.8 billion in 2011/12 Budget to the Jamaica Social Investment Fund...

KINGSTON — A Fiscal Systems Modernisation project, aimed at increased tax compliance, reduced costs and more efficiency in the public sector, is to be instituted this financial year. Some $550...