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National Identification and Registration Authority Bill Tabled

By: Douglas McIntosh, March 23, 2017
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, on Tuesday (March 21), tabled a Bill in Parliament to establish the National Identification and Registration Authority. The proposed National Identification and Registration...
Prime Minister the Most. Hon. Andrew Holness (2nd right) makes his presentation in the 2017/18 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on March 21. Listening (from left) are Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Everald Warmington. In the background is Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz.

Government to Embark on Regeneration Programme

By: Denise Dennis , March 23, 2017
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, fields questions from journalists during a post-Budget press conference held at the Office of the Prime Minister on Wednesday (March 22).

No Additional Burden from Indirect Taxation – PM

By: Alecia Smith , March 23, 2017

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Employees at one of several Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) entities operating out of the Montego Bay Free Zone. (File photo)
Budget 2017/2018

More Space for BPO Operations

Work is under way by the Port Authority of Jamaica and the Factories Corporation to construct more than 250,000 square feet of new purpose-built space and to retrofit an additional...
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By: Latonya Linton , March 23, 2017
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, makes his contribution to the 2017/18 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on March 21.
Budget 2017/2018

Government to Apologise

The Government is to formally apologise to the victims of state-inflicted violence that occurred in the communities of Coral Gardens in April 1963 and Tivoli Gardens in May 2010. Prime...
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By: Chris Patterson, March 22, 2017