The Government implemented several initiatives and programmes in 2013, aimed at boosting economic development and creating avenues for more persons to be employed. These efforts were carried out under one...

Thousands of Jamaica’s most vulnerable benefitted from the Government’s strategic policy of Social Inclusion during 2013. Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, told the nation during her 2013...

The Ministry of Health, this year, created systems of excellence, and advanced healthcare for all, an agenda emphasised by portfolio Minister, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson in his Sectoral presentation in...

The development of the country’s human capital formed a major strategic objective for the Government in 2013. This saw the administration making significant inroads in the areas of education; school...

Cabinet has issued drafting instructions for three strategic laws, which are pivotal to the process of local government reform. These are: the Local Governance Act; the Local Government Financing and...

New York: - Jamaica’s Minister of Local Government and Community development, the Hon. Noel Arscott, told a United Nations conference that hazard mitigation planning and disaster management is a priority...

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Derrick Kellier, has made a call for Jamaicans to show greater care for the country’s senior citizens. The Minister, who was speaking at...

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton, says the Government continues to push the public-private partnership (PPP) agenda, as the country moves towards realizing its National Development Plan....