Cabinet will this weekend be focusing its attention on stimulating growth and creating jobs through investment and expansion for 2011. The one day retreat gets underway on January 22. In his New...

A Joint Select Committee of Parliament will be formed to examine the issue of dual citizenship. The move was agreed to during the sitting of the House of Representatives on...

The Ministry of Education has developed a Green Paper on Safe School Policy, which will, among other things, abolish the use of corporal punishment in all schools. The policy is...

Cabinet has approved the issuing of drafting instruction to the Chief Parliamentary Counsel to develop legislation for the establishment of a Jamaica Tertiary Education Commission. This commission will be the national...

 The Government of Jamaica has pledged J$1 million support to the Menzies family whose three children suffer a neuro-degenerative disorder. The announcement was made at this morning’s (Jan 20) National...

The House of Representatives has agreed that a Joint Select Committee of the Upper and Lower Houses would be the best medium to examine the issue of dual citizenship, giving...

A Bill providing for the establishment of the Office of the Special Prosecutor as a department of Government was passed in the Senate on Friday, January 14. Minister of Justice...

The Commission of Enquiry into the handling of the extradition request for Christopher 'Dudus' Coke and the subsequent engagement of United States law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips is scheduled...

Members of the House of Representatives will pay tribute to the late former Member of Parliament and Minister of Government, Donald Buchanan, on Tuesday, January 18. Mr. Buchanan, who was...

Cabinet has approved the procurement and distribution of Grades One to Three primary integrated study text books and work books for 2010, to Macmillan Distribution Limited, in the amount of...

Cabinet has approved the appointment of a new board of directors for the Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) for a three-year term. Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects,...