KINGSTON — The Government, in its efforts to boost investment and job creation, has allocated some $22 million to the Promotion of Foreign Direct Investment in Jamaica project. The provision...

KINGSTON — The Justice Undertakings for Social Transformation (JUST) project has received an allocation of $360 million in the 2011/12 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The...

KINGSTON — The Government has set aside $10.6 billion to continue work to improve the infrastructure in tourist centres along the northern coast of Jamaica. This will be done under...

KINGSTON — The Government will continue to target poverty alleviation in the new fiscal year, including an allocation of $2.8 billion in 2011/12 Budget to the Jamaica Social Investment Fund...

KINGSTON — A Fiscal Systems Modernisation project, aimed at increased tax compliance, reduced costs and more efficiency in the public sector, is to be instituted this financial year. Some $550...

KINGSTON — The 2011/12 session of Parliament opened on April 14 at Gordon House with the ceremonial pomp and pageantry, highlighted by the delivery of the Throne Speech by Governor...

KINGSTON — The Jamaica Competitiveness Enhancement Programme is to receive $28.43 million in the new fiscal year to continue facilitating economic growth, by promoting specific reforms to reduce the cost...

KINGSTON — The study on adolescent dislocation in the island has been allotted $12.9 million in the 2011/2012 Estimates of expenditure, which were tabled in the House of Representatives on...

KINGSTON-Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon Audley Shaw, tabled Estimates of Expenditure totaling $545 billion for 2011/12, in the House of Representatives Thursday April 14. The gross budget...

KINGSTON–The 2011/12 session of Parliament opened yesterday (April 14) at Gordon House with the ceremonial pomp and pageantry, highlighted by the delivery of the Throne Speech by Governor General, His...

New Financial Year This new session of Parliament opens against the backdrop of a global economic recovery that is proving to be slow, uneven and uncertain. The significant increases which...