The number of areas on which comprehensive data and analyses are provided in the Statistical Institute of Jamaica’s (STATIN) Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions (JSLC), has been expanded by two,...

Director of Urban and Regional Planning, Ministry of Local Government and Community Development, Marsha Henry-Martin, says that development planning in Jamaica must incorporate disaster mitigation measures and strategies to address...

While Jamaica has recorded slow economic growth since independence, the social development of its people has improved significantly. This was the consensus among panelists participating in a discussion on: ‘Understanding...

Noted Attorney- at -Law, and Head of the Michael Manley Foundation, Delano Franklyn, has made a call for greater consensus among stakeholders around critical issues in order for Jamaica to...

Minister of Justice, Senator Mark Golding, has stated the government’s intent to introduce legislation that will provide greater protection to the country’s innovators and inventors. He said that work has...

The latest key indicators of national well-being: ‘health status; education status and labour force quality’ under the Vision 2030 Jamaica - National Development Plan’, has revealed that tertiary level enrolment...

A US$9.5 million grant to assist with poverty reduction and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals; environmental sustainability and energy security; and democratic governance, has been secured by the...

A sum of $174 million, which has been added to the 2011/12 budget, should be enough to complete the 2011 Population and Housing Census this month, as targeted. After STATIN's...