The Government has allocated $195.4 million to continue work to construct new offices spaces downtown Kingston, to house the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. The new facility will...

Chief Economist at the Ministry of Finance and Planning, Everton McFarlane, says the 2015/16 budget is a growth supporting budget. Speaking on the Jamaica Information Service’s (JIS) Issues and Answers...

Thirty procurement specialists and lawyers across the public sector are benefitting from a five-day course in procurement law and practice. The training got underway on February 23 at the Old...

A sum of $51 million has been allocated in the 2015/16 Estimates of Expenditure, now before Parliament, to continue development of the Electronic Government Procurement system. The project, which commenced...

The project, being implemented by Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ), aims to improve the regulatory, institutional, and administrative framework for business taxation, by reforming the tax appeal process and legislative framework....

Research is being undertaken by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) to address the issue of youth unemployment in the region. The announcement was made by Director of Economics at the...

The Government requires $8.5 billion in additional revenues to fill a gap in the 2015/16 Estimates of Expenditure of $641.6 billion, tabled in the House of Representatives on Thursday (February...

A budget of $641.56 billion has been presented by the Government for the fiscal year 2015/16, with $432.57 billion earmarked for recurrent (housekeeping) expenses and $208.98 billion for capital (development)...