Minister of Education, Andrew Holness, has reiterated that all students leaving the primary school system must be certified literate by the Grade 4 Literacy Test, before they can sit the...

The Tax Administration Services Department (TASD), is to launch an aggressive Tax Compliance Programme on November 1, as it takes a hard line stance against avoidance and delinquency. Speaking to...

The Forestry Department, is now in the final stages of moving from a department of the Ministry of Agriculture, to being an Executive Agency. In an interview with JIS News,...

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Karl Samuda, has announced that local importers are to benefit from continued suspension of the Common External Tariff (CET), applied to the importation of...

Minister of Energy, Clive Mullings, has said that sugar cane, which was once the symbol of slavery in Jamaica and the Caribbean, is today, the key to liberating the country...

Government's efforts at expanding Jamaica's productive capacity will be focussed heavily, over the next two years, on the development of facilities, to accommodate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) operations, by...

Co-ordinator of the Institute for Sustainable Development at the University of the West Indies(UWI), Franklin McDonald, has said there is a need for more parishes to develop plans, in order...

Minister of Energy, Clive Mullings, has informed that the E10 Ethanol programme, out of the Centre of Excellence for Renewable Energy, a unit within the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ),...

Twelve persons from the county of Surrey, have been presented with citations and plaques, for outstanding achievement in their communities. They are: Kahielia Levy, Clover Angela Tobin and Verona Blair-O'Connor...

Jamaican High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Burchell Whiteman is the new Chairman of the Board of the Commonwealth of Learning. The Vancouver-based Commonwealth of Learning (CoL) is an intergovernmental...

Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, is emphasising the need for Jamaica to become responsive to the issues of climate change, which impacts tourism, influencing destination preferences and affecting the kinds...