HEART/NTA is now investing heavily in the establishment of the Career Advancement Programme which focuses on Jamaican youths who are unable to take advantage of training opportunities and certification programmes...

Minister of Finance, Hon. Audley Shaw, has expressed gratitude to the United Kingdom (UK) Department for International Development (DFID) for its $327 million (£2.4 million) in debt relief for the...

Director General of the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), Sonia Jackson, says the agency is  ready to undertake the 2011 Population and Housing Census (Census 2011), slated to officially get...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon Dr. Kenneth Baugh, is urging nationwide support for the 2011 Population and Housing Census, which will be administered...

Prime Minister, the Hon Bruce Golding, officially opened Jamaica's 'most modern and elaborate' port, the Falmouth Cruise Pier in Trelawny, on Tuesday March 22. The approximately US$ 269 million pier,...

Recommendations aimed at inducing short and medium term economic growth in Jamaica, have been included in a strategy developed within the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ). The document, a Growth...

A total of 154 persons have received certification in various competencies under an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Capacity Development Project between the Governments of Jamaica and India. The students,...

The pilot phase of the much anticipated Community Renewal Programme (CRP) could be rolled out as early as the end of March, according to officials at the Planning Institute of...

Jamaica is ranked among the top 15 countries in the world with top broadband speeds, Chairman of Columbus Communications International, Brendan Paddick, has revealed. “With Flow’s introduction of up to...

The Government is expanding the National Customer Service Programme, as part of overall efforts to modernise the public sector, says Chief Standards and Monitoring Officer, National Customer Service Programme, Public...

The effective and efficient delivery of products and services by the public sector is pivotal to the realisation of the country's National Development Plan, Vision 2030. This was emphasised by...