The J$200 million allocated to the Young Entrepreneurs Programme (YEP) has not been affected by the cuts in the Budget. The Development Bank of Jamaica has requested a tranche of...

Internal auditors employed in the public sector kicked off their three-day conference at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston Tuesday (September 8). The inaugural Government of Jamaica's Internal Auditors'...

The European Union on Tuesday granted Jamaica J$3.6 billion under the European Commission co-operation programme. This brings the total EU assistance to an estimated Euro 740 million (just under J$93...

The Net International Reserves (NIR) of the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) was boosted to some US$2 billion, or 16 weeks worth of imported goods and services, Tuesday (September 1), after...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, the Hon. Audley Shaw, on Monday (August 31) confirmed that Jamaica received an allocation of 74% of its quota of Special Drawing Rights...

Dr. Wesley Hughes will officially take up his new position as Financial Secretary, in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, on Tuesday (September 1). Dr. Hughes served as...

The Ministry of Finance and the Public Service has acknowledged receipt of the Report on the Nurses Reclassification exercise from the Review Panel. This information has been conveyed to the...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon Audley Shaw, says that Jamaicans should soon start seeing repairs to their roads financed from the special consumption tax on fuel introduced...

The Government is expressing optimism that the Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will make a decision on Jamaica's application for balance of payment support, by the end of...

The Commission of Enquiry into the Collapse of the Financial Institutions in Jamaica in the 1990s, chaired by Hon. Justice Boyd Carey (retired) has stated that, having regard to the...

The Government announced Tuesday (August 25) that increases in allowances paid to its employees, due from April, 2008, will be paid in September. Minister of State in the Ministry of...