Five months after the ban on styrofoam and single-use plastic bags was implemented in Jamaica, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz,...

The Prime Minister says that a strategic transformation of the country's economic space to grow the economy will have a positive impact on civil servants. Prime Minister Holness was speaking...

Twenty communities across the island have been selected to participate in the pretest of the Census 2021 questionnaire exercise, to be administered by the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN). The...

The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) is conducting a Listing of Dwellings Exercise, which is aimed at updating the count of dwellings in Jamaica between censuses. The exercise provides the...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz, says his Ministry is in the process of updating the Climate Change Policy Framework. He...

Cabinet has approved the fourth Medium Term Socio-Economic Policy Framework (MTF), which underpins implementation of the country’s long-term National Development Plan – Vision 2030 Jamaica. This was disclosed by Planning...

Real estate renting and business activities, and hotels and restaurants were among the sectors recording the highest increases in employment among the 1,232,700 persons holding jobs as at January 2019....

Approximately 160,000 additional jobs are expected to be created during the production stage of a newly patented nutraceutical being championed by the National Commission on Science and Technology (NCST). The...