Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon Pearnel Charles, has commissioned a study to determine a minimum livable wage for Jamaican workers, to guide future adjustments in the National Minimum...

Cabinet has given approval for the proceeds of the lease of the Hounslow packing house in St. Elizabeth to be used to repay a bank loan that had been taken...

Cabinet has approved a Bill entitled the 'National Health Fund Amendment Act' for tabling in Parliament, Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, has announced....

Cabinet has approved a variation of US$270,000 on the contract awarded to PriceWaterHouse Cooper Private Limited, India, for enhancement of the management system for the Programme for Advancement through Health...

Cabinet has approved the use of the limited tender process to procure 480 megawatts of generating capacity, incorporating liquefied natural gas (LNG), for addition to the national energy grid at...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, says that the Land Administration and Management Programme (LAMP), for which he has portfolio responsibility, continues to make strides, with 2,300 titles issued over...

Preliminary estimates indicate that it will cost the Government just over $11. 7 billion to repair damage across a number of sectors, wreaked by the devastating rains associated with Tropical...

The House of Representatives has begun debating Jamaica's first National Energy Policy (NEP), which promotes creation of a modern, efficient energy infrastructure expected to boost economic development. Opening the debate...

Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture, Senator Warren Newby, has informed that a national youth entrepreneurship policy is before Cabinet for consideration. The policy, he said,...

A number of roads in St. Mary will be rehabilitated under Government's largest ever road improvement initiative, the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP). The St. Mary leg of the programme...

Cabinet has approved a variation to the contract for the Bogue Road Improvement Project, under the Northern Coastal Highway Improvement Project Segment 1A. The change will see over $697 million...