Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw, left the island earlier today (March 27), for Medellin, Colombia, where he will attend the 50th Annual Meeting of the Board...

Director of the Computing and Engineering Entrepreneurial Centre (CEEC) at the University of Technology (UTech), Owen Gunning, has suggested that the Government impose a heavy tax on the importation of...

On March 18, 2009, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services lowered Jamaica's long-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings on Jamaica to 'B-' from 'B', one notch down in the...

Head of the Caribbean Development Bank's (CDB) Social Sector Division, Yvonne Moses Grant, says the prevailing economic crisis presents Caribbean countries with an opportunity for creative innovative solutions to deal...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw, has said that the 2009/10 Budget, which would be presented in April, would provide stimulus to enhance productive capacity. "That is...

Head of Psychiatry at the University of the West Indies, Dr. Wendel Abel, has said that Jamaicans are noted for being able to survive hard economical times. "The economists say...

Secretary Manager of the St. Catherine Parish Council, Christopher Powell, has urged residents to pay up their property taxes, to ensure delivery of services provided by the Council. Mr. Powell...

Community organisations in St. Thomas can now access funds from the St. Thomas Credit Union, Morant Bay, to start social and income generating projects. The organization is one of six...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw, has said that Jamaica's economic transformation must be underpinned by corresponding pursuits in education. Mr. Shaw contended that it is only...

The government is given renewed impetus to the process of staunching the bleeding of billions of dollars from the public purse, achieving greater transparency, while ensuring the speedy processing of...

The deadline for companies, self-employed persons, and employees with alternative sources of earnings to submit their income tax returns for 2008, has been pushed to Monday, March 16. The Tax...