Cabinet has approved the award of four contracts, amounting to over $250 million, for a number projects and services to be effected at the state-run oil refinery, Petrojam. Speaking at...

Cabinet has approved the establishment of a National Commission on Reparations, to consider and make recommendations on proposals seeking compensation from countries formerly engaged in the slave trade for the...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw, yesterday (Jan. 20) moved a motion in the Lower House, seeking Parliamentary approval for Government to guarantee payments amounting to US$127.7...

Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, has informed that the State Opening of Parliament will take place on Thursday, April 2, with the Governor General, delivering...

A Bill to amend the Jury Act, so as to enable the Registrar of the Supreme Court to make appropriate arrangements for the serving of summonses on jurors, was passed...

The National Task Force Against Trafficking in Persons (NTFATIP) is seeking to have a number of bills passed in Parliament, which are designed to strengthen the country's fight against human...

The Jamaican Diaspora United Kingdom has congratulated Member of Parliament for South West St Andrew, Portia Simpson-Miller on her victory in the People's National Party leadership election. "The Jamaican Diaspora...

Records from the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel (OPC) indicate that a total of 31 Acts of Parliament and numerous pieces of subsidiary legislation were enacted between January and December...

Effective January 1, 2006 the income tax threshold will be increased to $193,440, moving from $169,104, which has been in effect since July 1 this year. Minister of Finance and...

The House of Representatives yesterday (Nov. 29) approved a $500 million loan to the Jamaica Mortgage Bank for the financing of housing developments in several parishes. Finance and Planning Minister,...

After extensive debate over several weeks, the Upper House gave its approval to the Maintenance Bill, with eight amendments, at yesterday's (Oct. 28) sitting. The approval of the legislation followed...